14-letter words containing g, u, t
- grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
- guantanamo bay — a bay on the SE coast of Cuba.
- guarantee form — a document that spells out the terms of a legally binding guarantee
- guatemala city — a republic in N Central America. 42,042 sq. mi. (108,889 sq. km).
- guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
- guest services — Guest services at a hotel are the services, amenities and help that the hotel provides for its guests.
- guiana current — an ocean current flowing northwest along the northeast coast of South America.
- guided writing — In language teaching, when students do guided writing activities, they are given an outline in words or pictures to help them write.
- guinea current — an ocean current flowing E along the Guinea coast of W Africa.
- gulf of tonkin — an arm of the South China Sea, bordered by N Vietnam, the Leizhou Peninsula of SW China, and Hainan Island. Length: about 500 km (300 miles)
- gum tragacanth — tragacanth.
- gum turpentine — turpentine (sense 2)
- gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
- gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
- gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- gypsum plaster — plaster made primarily of gypsum.
- haemagglutinin — Alternative spelling of hemagglutinin.
- haematophagous — (of certain animals) feeding on blood
- hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
- haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
- hardy ageratum — the mistflower.
- have bought it — to be killed
- hemagglutinate — to cause the clumping of red blood cells in
- heterologously — In a heterologous manner.
- holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- hound's-tongue — any of various plants belonging to the genus Cynoglossum, of the borage family, especially C. officinale, having coarse, tongue-shaped leaves, dull purple flowers, and prickly nutlets.
- housing estate — housing development.
- housing market — property trade
- hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
- hungry viewkit — (operating system, library) A C++ class library for developing Motif application programs (although this restriction will be lifted once LessTif is finished). It follows the API of the Iris(tm) ViewKit, put out by SGI. The Hungry ViewKit is a superset of the Iris ViewKit, so any code developed for the Iris version will work with the Hungry version, but possibly not vice versa.
- hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- hunting ground — a section or area for hunting game.
- hunting season — annual period when hunting is permitted
- ichthyophagous — the practice of eating or subsisting on fish.
- illuminatingly — In an illuminating manner.
- imaginary unit — the complex number i.
- immunoblotting — The use of immunoblots to analyse proteins.
- immunogenetics — the branch of immunology dealing with the study of immunity in relation to genetic makeup.
- immunogenicity — causing or capable of producing an immune response.
- immunostaining — (uncountable, immunology) Any of several staining techniques that are used to detect specific proteins.
- in league with — along with, plotting with
- in the running — the act of a person, animal, or thing that runs.
- incontiguously — in an incontiguous or unconnected fashion; discretely
- indigo bunting — a North American bunting, Passerina cyanea, the male of which is indigo.
- insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
- integral curve — a curve that is a geometric representation of a functional solution to a given differential equation.
- interest group — a group of people drawn or acting together in support of a common interest or to voice a common concern: Political interest groups seek to influence legislation.
- interlanguages — Plural form of interlanguage.
- interlingually — in an interlingual manner