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13-letter words containing l, o, u, n, g

  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • glutinousness — The quality of being glutinous.
  • gobar numeral — any of a set of ancient numerals derived from Hindu numerals
  • golden number — a number between 1 and 19, used to indicate the position of any year in the Metonic cycle, calculated as the remainder when 1 is added to the given year and the sum is divided by 19. If the remainder is zero the number is 19
  • golfe du lion — French name of the Gulf of Lions.
  • goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
  • gossip column — newspaper: celebrity news article
  • graminicolous — (esp of parasitic fungi) living on grass
  • grand guignol — a short drama stressing horror and sensationalism.
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • grandiloquous — grandiloquent
  • granular snow — a rare form of opaque precipitation consisting of very tiny ice crystals
  • granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
  • granulomatous — an inflammatory tumor or growth composed of granulation tissue.
  • graticulation — the division of a design, plan, etc into squares in order to improve the accuracy of enlargement or reduction
  • 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.
  • ground beetle — any of numerous nocturnal, terrestrial beetles of the family Carabidae that feed chiefly on other insects.
  • ground colour — a colour on which other colours are superimposed to create a pattern
  • ground sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • groundnut oil — a mild-tasting oil extracted from peanuts and used in cooking
  • gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
  • gulf of lions — a wide bay of the Mediterranean off the S coast of France, between the Spanish border and Toulon
  • guzman blanco — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1829–99, Venezuelan political leader: president 1870–88.
  • half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
  • half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
  • hollow-ground — ground so as to produce a concave surface or surfaces behind a cutting edge: the hollow-ground blade of an ice skate.
  • homogeneously — composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; not heterogeneous: a homogeneous population.
  • homologoumena — the books in the New Testament generally held as authoritative and canonical by the early church.
  • housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
  • housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • human cloning — the act of producing a human as a clone
  • human ecology — ecology (def 4).
  • hunting lodge — a house or hut in the country or in the mountains where people stay on holiday when they want to go hunting
  • ignominiously — marked by or attended with ignominy; discreditable; humiliating: an ignominious retreat.
  • immunobiology — the study of the immune response and the biological aspects of immunity to disease.
  • immunological — (immunology) Of, or relating to immunology.
  • incongruently — not congruent.
  • incongruously — out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming: an incongruous effect; incongruous behavior.
  • indigo squill — wild hyacinth.
  • insulinogenic — Promoting the production of insulin.
  • interreligous — Between religions.
  • involute gear — a gear tooth form that is generated by involute geometry
  • isoagglutinin — an agglutinin that can effect isoagglutination.
  • john sucklingSir John, 1609–42, English poet.
  • juglandaceous — belonging to the plant family Juglandaceae.
  • junior league — any local branch of a women's organization, the Association of the Junior Leagues of America, Inc., the members of which are engaged in volunteer welfare work, civic affairs, etc.
  • labour-saving — A labour-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
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