12-letter words containing l, u, g, e
- bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- bubblegummer — a young teenager; adolescent.
- buffel grass — grass used for pasture in Africa, India, and Australia
- bundle buggy — a shopping cart, usually one owned by the shopper rather than one provided by the store.
- bush leaguer — Also called busher. Baseball. a player in a minor league. an incompetent player, as one who behaves or plays as if he or she belonged in a minor league.
- bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
- bush-leaguer — (in baseball) someone who plays in a minor league
- cape agulhas — a headland in South Africa, the southernmost point of the African continent
- caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
- cattle guard — A cattle guard is the same as a cattle grid.
- ch-ien--lung — (Kao Tsung) 1711–99, Chinese emperor of the Ch'ing dynasty 1736–96.
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
- chiliburgers — Plural form of chiliburger.
- chirurgeonly — in the manner of a surgeon
- cip language — language> (CIP-L, Computer-aided Intuition-guided Programming Language) A wide-spectrum language for incremental program transformation. There are ALGOL- and Pascal-like variants.
- clearcutting — the act of felling all trees in area
- club fighter — a mediocre boxer who fights mostly on programs at small sporting clubs
- come unglued — If something comes unglued, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- conglobulate — to form into a globe or ball
- conglutinate — to cause (the edges of a wound or fracture) to join during the process of healing or (of the edges of a wound or fracture) to join during this process
- congratulate — If you congratulate someone, you say something to show you are pleased that something nice has happened to them.
- congruential — (mathematics) That uses congruency (division by a modulus).
- conqueringly — in a conquering manner
- counterlight — a light opposite something, such as a painting, that negatively affects the appearance of that object
- courageously — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
- curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- daughterless — Without a daughter.
- daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
- daughterling — a small daughter
- debut single — the first single produced by a particular singer or band
- declustering — Any technique that counteracts clustering (in any sense).
- decluttering — Present participle of declutter.
- deglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of deglutinate.
- delightfully — giving great pleasure or delight; highly pleasing: a delightful surprise.
- deliquescing — Present participle of deliquesce.
- demodulating — Present participle of demodulate.
- demulsifying — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- dentilingual — pronounced or articulated with the tongue touching the upper teeth
- depopulating — Present participle of depopulate.
- deregulating — Present participle of deregulate.
- deregulation — Deregulation is the removal of controls and restrictions in a particular area of business or trade.
- deregulatory — Of or pertaining to deregulation.
- devil's dung — asafetida.
- dialogue box — a window that may appear on a VDU display to prompt the user to enter further information or select an option
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- disgruntedly — In a disgruntled manner.
- disguiseless — the quality of being without disguise
- disregardful — neglectful; careless.