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14-letter words containing l, a, n, g, u, o

  • faculty lounge — a staffroom
  • flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
  • floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • gamma globulin — a protein fraction of blood plasma that responds to stimulation of antigens, as bacteria or viruses, by forming antibodies: administered therapeutically in the treatment of some viral diseases.
  • gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
  • gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
  • glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
  • glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • go a bundle on — to be extremely fond of
  • golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
  • gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • granulomatosis — any disease characterized by the formation of numerous granulomas.
  • granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
  • grapple ground — an anchorage, especially for small vessels.
  • ground leakage — Ground leakage is the flow of current from a live conductor to the earth through the insulation.
  • gulf of anadyr — an inlet of the Bering Sea, off the coast of NE Russia
  • gulf of guinea — a large inlet of the S Atlantic on the W coast of Africa, extending from Cape Palmas, Liberia, to Cape Lopez, Gabon: contains two large bays, the Bight of Bonny and the Bight of Benin, separated by the Niger delta
  • gulf of mannar — the part of the Indian Ocean between SE India and the island of Sri Lanka: pearl fishing
  • gulf of panama — a wide inlet of the Pacific in Panama
  • hallucinogenic — producing hallucinations: a hallucinogenic drug.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
  • landing ground — airfield
  • languorousness — The quality of being languorous.
  • lanterne rouge — a notional award given to the competitor who finishes last in a cycle race
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • legal document — a document concerning a legal matter; a document drawn up by a lawyer
  • lemon geranium — a garden geranium, Pelargonium crispum, having lemon-scented leaves.
  • lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • loan guarantee — an undertaking by a government to pay a debt if the borrower defaults
  • long drawn out — A long drawn out process or conflict lasts an unnecessarily long time or an unpleasantly long time.
  • long underwear — a close-fitting, usually knitted undergarment with legs reaching to the ankles, as a union suit, worn as protection against the cold.
  • long-drawn-out — lasting a very long time; protracted: a long-drawn-out story.
  • longitudinally — of or relating to longitude or length: longitudinal measurement.
  • longleat house — an Elizabethan mansion near Warminster in Wiltshire, built (from 1568) by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne; the grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown, now contain a famous safari park
  • louangphrabang — a city in N Laos, on the Mekong River: former royal capital.
  • lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
  • lu-wang school — School of Mind.
  • luminous range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible in clear weather, disregarding interference from obstructions and from the curvature of the earth and depending on the power of the light.
  • lymphoglandula — (anatomy) An alternative name for a lymph node.
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