15-letter words containing n, a, u, g
- ground-breaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
- group insurance — life, accident, or health insurance available to a group of persons, as the employees of a company, under a single contract, usually without regard to physical condition or age of the individuals.
- guaranteed bond — a bond issued by a corporation in which payment of the principal, interest, or both is guaranteed by another corporation.
- guard of honour — A guard of honour is an official parade of troops, usually to celebrate or honour a special occasion, such as the visit of a head of state.
- guardian angels — an angel believed to protect a particular person, as from danger or error.
- guardian reader — a reader of the Guardian newspaper, seen as being typically left-wing, liberal, and politically correct
- guidance system — The guidance system of a missile or rocket is the device which controls its course.
- gulf of bothnia — an arm of the Baltic Sea, extending north between Sweden and Finland
- gulf of finland — an arm of the Baltic Sea between Finland, Estonia, and Russia
- gulf of fonseca — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in W Central America
- gulf of taranto — an inlet of the Ionian Sea, in Apulia in SE Italy
- guns and butter — a symbol for the economic policy of a government insofar as spending is allocated for either military or social purposes
- guru meditation — (operating system) The Amiga equivalent of Unix's panic (sometimes just called a "guru" or "guru event"). When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the form "GURU MEDITATION #XXXXXXXX.YYYYYYYY" may appear, indicating what the problem was. An Amiga guru can figure things out from the numbers. In the earliest days of the Amiga, there was a device called a "Joyboard" which was basically a plastic board built onto a joystick-like device; it was sold with a skiing game cartridge for the Atari game machine. It is said that whenever the prototype OS crashed, the system programmer responsible would concentrate on a solution while sitting cross-legged, balanced on a Joyboard, resembling a meditating guru. Sadly, the joke was removed in AmigaOS 2.04. The Jargon File claimed that a guru event had to be followed by a Vulcan nerve pinch but, according to a correspondent, a mouse click was enough to start a reboot.
- haemagglutinate — to cause the clumping of red blood cells in (a blood sample)
- haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
- haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
- haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- have had enough — be weary, exasperated
- hawaiian guitar — a six-to-eight-string electric guitar, fretted with a piece of metal or bone to produce a whining, glissando sound, played in a horizontal position usually resting on the performer's knees or on a stand, and much used by country music performers.
- heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
- holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
- homing guidance — a method of missile guidance in which internal equipment enables it to steer itself onto the target, as by sensing the target's heat radiation
- horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
- human geography — the study of the interaction between human beings and their environment in particular places and across spatial areas.
- human megaphone — the technique of using a crowd of people to repeat a speaker's words in unison
- hump one's swag — (of a tramp) to carry one's belongings from place to place on one's back
- hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
- hunter-gatherer — a member of a group of people who subsist by hunting, fishing, or foraging in the wild.
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- huntington park — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- ignatius loyola — Saint Ignatius of (Iñigo López de Loyola) 1491–1556, Spanish soldier and ecclesiastic: founder of the Society of Jesus.
- image-conscious — concerned about the way one comes across to other people and the impression one creates
- immunodiagnosis — serodiagnosis.
- immunologically — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
- immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
- individualising — Present participle of individualise.
- individualizing — Present participle of individualize.
- industrialising — Present participle of industrialise.
- industrializing — Present participle of industrialize.
- inguinal hernia — a common type of hernia in which a loop of the intestine protrudes directly through a weak area of the abdominal wall in the groin region.
- insulating tape — adhesive tape, impregnated with a moisture-repelling substance, used to insulate exposed electrical conductors
- insurance agent — sb who sells insurance policies
- insuring clause — the clause in an insurance policy setting forth the kind and degree of coverage granted by the insurer.
- inunderstanding — (obsolete) Devoid of understanding.
- italian sausage — salami
- jackass penguin — any of several boldly marked black and white penguins of the genus Spheniscus, especially S. demersus, of southern Africa, with a call resembling a donkey's bray.
- japanese spurge — a low Japanese plant, Pachysandra terminalis, having evergreen leaves and spikes of white flowers, grown as a ground cover.
- journal bearing — a plain cylindrical bearing to support a shaft or axle