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13-letter words containing l, i, g, a, t, u

  • fooling about — the act of speaking or acting in a playful, teasing, or jesting manner
  • frustratingly — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
  • fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
  • futurological — Pertaining to futurology.
  • gastric ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the stomach's inner wall, caused in part by the corrosive action of the gastric juice on the mucous membrane.
  • general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
  • gesticulating — Present participle of gesticulate.
  • gesticulation — the act of gesticulating.
  • gesticulative — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
  • gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
  • glass curtain — a transparent or translucent curtain covering the interior of a window opening.
  • glutamatergic — (biochemistry, neurology) Of or pertaining to the neurotransmission of glutamate.
  • glutamic acid — an amino acid, HOOCCH 2 CH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, obtained by hydrolysis from wheat gluten and sugar-beet residues, used commercially chiefly in the form of its sodium salt to intensify the flavor of meat or other food. Symbol: E. Abbreviation: Glu;
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • graticulation — the division of a design, plan, etc into squares in order to improve the accuracy of enlargement or reduction
  • gravity fault — a fault along an inclined plane in which the upper side or hanging wall appears to have moved downward with respect to the lower side or footwall (opposed to reverse fault).
  • great council — (in Norman England) an assembly composed of the king's tenants in chief that served as the principal council of the realm and replaced the witenagemot.
  • gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
  • hallucinating — Present participle of hallucinate.
  • hemagglutinin — A substance, such as a viral protein, that causes hemagglutination.
  • humiliatingly — lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying: Such a humiliating defeat was good for his overblown ego.
  • infuriatingly — causing or tending to cause anger or outrage; maddening: His delay is infuriating.
  • insinuatingly — tending to instill doubts, distrust, etc.; suggestive: an insinuating letter.
  • intergranular — located or occurring between granules or grains: intergranular corrosion.
  • interlanguage — a language created or used for international communication.
  • involute gear — a gear tooth form that is generated by involute geometry
  • isoagglutinin — an agglutinin that can effect isoagglutination.
  • judgmatically — in the manner of a judge
  • judgmentalism — Judgmental behaviour or attitude.
  • lactoglobulin — A protein or mixture of similar proteins occurring in milk, obtained after the removal of casein and precipitated in a salt solution.
  • laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
  • light quantum — photon.
  • lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
  • linguistician — linguist (def 1).
  • little league — The Little League is an organization of children's baseball teams that compete against each other in the United States.
  • logical truth — the property of being logically tautologous
  • long fin tuna — a tunny, Thunnus alalunga, occurring mainly in warm regions of the Atlantic and Pacific. It has very long pectoral fins and is a valued food fish
  • magnetic flux — the total magnetic induction crossing a surface, equal to the integral of the component of magnetic induction perpendicular to the surface over the surface: usually measured in webers or maxwells.
  • matriculating — Present participle of matriculate.
  • metal fatigue — a weakening and breaking of metal due to it bending and flexing
  • metallurgical — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
  • metallurgists — Plural form of metallurgist.
  • mulligan stew — a stew made of odd bits of meat and vegetables, esp. as prepared by hobos
  • multi-tasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
  • multicategory — (mathematics) A generalization of the concept of category that allows morphisms of multiple arity.
  • multidigitate — having many digits or finger-like projections
  • multigravidas — Plural form of multigravida.
  • multimegawatt — producing or involving several million watts of power
  • multiorgasmic — Capable of multiple orgasms without a refractory period.
  • multiregional — of, relating to or involving several regions
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