11-letter words containing l, u, g, r
- gulf stream — a warm ocean current flowing N from the Gulf of Mexico, along the E coast of the U.S., to an area off the SE coast of Newfoundland, where it becomes the western terminus of the North Atlantic Current.
- gullywasher — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gun control — government regulation of the sale and ownership of firearms.
- gun culture — the attitudes, feelings, values, and behaviour of a society, or any social group, in which guns are used
- gunslingers — Plural form of gunslinger.
- gustatorily — in a gustatory manner
- gutter ball — a bowling ball that is rolled into one of the gutters and does not hit any pins.
- gutterblood — a low person of inferior breeding
- gutturalism — The quality of being guttural.
- gutturalize — to speak or pronounce (something) in a guttural manner.
- haplogroups — Plural form of haplogroup.
- heater plug — one of usually four plugs fitted to the cylinder block of a diesel engine that warms the engine chamber to facilitate starting in cold weather
- heptangular — having seven angles.
- hexyl group — any of five univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 6 H 13 −.
- hierurgical — of or relating to sacred rites
- high colour — (hardware) A colour depth of 16 (or 15) bits per pixel. Compare true colour.
- horse laugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
- horselaughs — Plural form of horselaugh.
- hourglasses — Plural form of hourglass.
- hull girder — the theoretical box girder formed by the continuous longitudinal members of the hull of a ship, providing resistance to hogging and sagging.
- hurry along — rush, go quickly
- inquiringly — seeking facts, information, or knowledge: an inquiring mind.
- insurgently — In an insurgent manner.
- interleague — (sports) Between leagues; often specifically between the two major leagues of American baseball.
- interlingua — an interlanguage.
- irregularly — without symmetry, even shape, formal arrangement, etc.: an irregular pattern.
- irreligious — not religious; not practicing a religion and feeling no religious impulses or emotions.
- journalling — journal
- klausenburg — German name of Cluj-Napoca.
- la camargue — a delta region in S France, between the channels of the Grand and Petit Rhône: cattle, esp bulls for the Spanish bullrings, and horses are reared
- languourous — Alternative form of languorous.
- laryngismus — Laryngospasm.
- laugh track — a separate sound track of prerecorded laughter added to the sound track of a radio or television program to enhance or feign audience responses.
- laughworthy — worthy of being laughed at
- launderings — Plural form of laundering.
- laundry bag — A laundry bag is a bag for clothes that that are about to be washed.
- legislature — a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
- let through — to allow to pass (through)
- life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- light curve — a graph showing variations in brightness of celestial objects over time.
- lightstruck — (of beer) Spoiled by exposure to light, which causes riboflavin to react with and break down the isohumulones.
- lignivorous — xylophagous.
- lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
- load-lugger — a motor vehicle that is capable of carrying a load rather than, or as well as, passengers
- local group — the group of galaxies, at least 25 of which are known, that includes the Milky Way.
- long jumper — an athlete who does the long jump
- long radius — the distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a vertex
- lose ground — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
- lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- ludwigsburg — a city in Baden-Württemberg state, SW Germany.