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14-letter words containing l, u, g, e

  • business angel — A business angel is a person who gives financial support to a commercial venture and receives a share of any profits from it, but who does not expect to be involved in its management.
  • butylene group — any of four bivalent isomeric groups having the formula –C 4 H 8 –.
  • cable trunking — Cable trunking is an enclosure usually with a rectangular cross section, and with one removable or hinged side, that is used to protect cables and provide space for other electrical equipment.
  • cambridge blue — a lightish blue colour
  • camouflageable — able to be camouflaged
  • canons regular — one of a body of dignitaries or prebendaries attached to a cathedral or a collegiate church; a member of the chapter of a cathedral or a collegiate church.
  • capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
  • card catalogue — a catalogue of books, papers, etc, filed on cards
  • centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
  • charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
  • chequered flag — the black-and-white checked flag traditionally shown to the winner and all finishers at the end of a motor race by a senior race official
  • child guidance — the counselling of emotionally disturbed children
  • chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
  • cisalpine gaul — (in the ancient world) that part of Gaul between the Alps and the Apennines
  • class struggle — in Marxism, the constant economic and political struggle held to exist between social classes regarded as exploiting and those regarded as exploited; specif., in capitalist countries, the struggle between capitalists (bourgeoisie) and workers (proletariat)
  • 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.
  • clouded magpie — a geometrid moth, Abraxas sylvata, that is paler than the magpie moth
  • clustergeeking — (jargon)   /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
  • conglomerateur — a person who forms or leads a business conglomerate
  • 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.
  • courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
  • 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.
  • de-icing fluid — a liquid that removes or discourages the formation of ice
  • debugging tool — debugger
  • delightfulness — The state or quality of being delightful.
  • dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
  • dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
  • denuclearizing — Present participle of denuclearize.
  • devil's-tongue — a foul-smelling, fleshy plant, Amorphophallus rivieri, of the Old World tropics, having flowers on a spike surrounded by a dark-red spathe.
  • dihedral group — the group of reflections, rotations, and symmetries of a regular n -sided polygon.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • disgruntlement — to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.
  • disgustfulness — the quality of being disgustful
  • disingenuously — In a manner that is not frank or open; deceptively.
  • disk duplexing — (hardware, storage)   A variation on disk mirroring where, as well as redundant disk drives, a second disk controller or host adapter is also present.
  • disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
  • divine liturgy — liturgy (def 5).
  • double digging — a method of digging ground in a series of trenches two spits deep, mixing the soil of the bottom spit with manure, and then transferring the soil from the top spit of one trench to the top spit of the preceding one
  • 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 wedding — a wedding in which two couples marry
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