14-letter words containing l, a, n, g, u
- cleaning fluid — a solvent or other solution for removing stains or cleaning particular objects
- clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
- clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
- configuraholic — (jargon) A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
- conglobulation — the act of conglobing
- conglomerateur — a person who forms or leads a business conglomerate
- conglutinating — Present participle of conglutinate.
- conglutination — glued together; adhering.
- congratulating — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
- congratulation — the act of congratulating
- congratulatory — A congratulatory message expresses congratulations.
- consul general — a consul of the highest grade, usually stationed in a city of considerable commercial importance
- consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
- cornucopia leg — a leg used on pieces in the Directoire and Empire styles, curving downward from the piece and curving upward again to a point and having a foot or caster at the lowest part of the curve.
- countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
- cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
- dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
- denuclearizing — Present participle of denuclearize.
- discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
- double glazing — glazing consisting of two thicknesses of glass with a dead air space between them.
- double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
- double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
- downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
- downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
- drunk dialling — the practice of making a phone call while drunk, esp to someone about whom one has romantic notions
- ductless gland — endocrine gland.
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- eau de cologne — cologne.
- engine failure — failure to operate by the engine of an aircraft, car, or other vehicle
- english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
- equiangularity — the state of being equiangular
- eugeosynclinal — of or relating to a eugeosyncline
- excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- faculty lounge — a staffroom
- feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
- field guidance — a method of guiding a missile to a point within a gravitational or radio field by means of the properties of the field
- file signature — A magic number.
- final judgment — judgment (def 8).
- first language — mother tongue
- flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
- floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
- flying gurnard — any marine fish of the family Dactylopteridae, especially Dactylopterus volitans, having greatly enlarged, colorful pectoral fins that enable it to glide short distances through the air.
- gallamine blue — a type of mordant dye
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.