13-letter words containing n, u, g
- ingurgitation — The act of swallowing greedily or immoderately; that which is so swallowed.
- inhomogeneous — lack of homogeneity.
- inquiry agent — a private detective
- insinuatingly — tending to instill doubts, distrust, etc.; suggestive: an insinuating letter.
- instrumenting — Present participle of instrument.
- insulinogenic — Promoting the production of insulin.
- integumentary — of, relating to, or like an integument.
- intergranular — located or occurring between granules or grains: intergranular corrosion.
- interlanguage — a language created or used for international communication.
- interreligous — Between religions.
- involute gear — a gear tooth form that is generated by involute geometry
- irregularness — Quality of being irregular.
- isoagglutinin — an agglutinin that can effect isoagglutination.
- issuing house — a financial institution that engages in finding capital for established companies or for private firms wishing to convert to public companies, by issuing shares on their behalf
- jean de meung — real name Jean Clopinel. ?1250–?1305, French poet, who continued Guillaume de Lorris' Roman de la Rose. His portion of the poem consists of some 18 000 lines and contains satirical attacks on women and the Church
- jitterbugging — Present participle of jitterbug.
- john of gaunt — John of, John of Gaunt.
- john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
- judgementally — Alternative form of judgmentally.
- judgment book — the book from which all persons will be judged at the Last Judgment, containing a full record of their acts.
- judgment call — Sports. an observational ruling by a referee or umpire that is necessarily subjective because of the disputable nature of the play in question, and one that may be appealed but not protested, as opposed to a matter of official rule interpretation: Balks and close plays at first are of course judgment calls, and umpires are human.
- judgment debt — Law. a debt established or confirmed by decree of a court of law.
- judgment note — Law. a note that expressly authorizes a creditor, in case of default, to seek a judgment in court without notifying the debtor.
- judgmentalism — Judgmental behaviour or attitude.
- juggling eggs — Keeping a lot of state in your head while modifying a program. "Don't bother me now, I'm juggling eggs", means that an interrupt is likely to result in the program's being scrambled. In the classic first-contact SF novel "The Mote in God's Eye", by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, an alien describes a very difficult task by saying "We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity." See also hack mode.
- juglandaceous — belonging to the plant family Juglandaceae.
- jumping genes — transposon.
- jumping mouse — any of several primitive, mouselike rodents of the family Zapodidae, having long hind legs, common in the woodlands of Europe, Asia, and North America.
- junggar pendi — an arid region of W China, in N Xinjiang between the Altai Mountains and the Tian Shan
- 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.
- junior rating — a military rank for non-officer personnel in the navy
- jury shopping — the practice of presenting a case to several juries until a favourable decision is obtained
- jus sanguinis — the principle that the country of nationality of a child is that of the country of nationality of the parents.
- kachang puteh — (in Malaysia) roasted or fried nuts or beans
- kangchenjunga — a mountain on the border between Nepal and Sikkim, in the Himalayas: the third highest mountain in the world. Height: 8598 m (28 208 ft)
- key signature — (in notation) the group of sharps or flats placed after the clef to indicate the tonality of the music following.
- kim young sam — born 1927, president of South Korea 1993–98.
- king's bounty — a grant, given in the royal name, to a mother of triplets.
- labour-saving — A labour-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
- lactoglobulin — A protein or mixture of similar proteins occurring in milk, obtained after the removal of casein and precipitated in a salt solution.
- lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
- lamb's tongue — a molding having a deep, symmetrical profile ending in a narrow edge, as in a sash bar.
- language arts — study of reading and writing
- language code — (human language, standard) A set of standard names and abbreviations maintained by ISO for identifying human languages, natural and invented, past and present. Each language has a list of English and French names and an ISO 639-2 three-letter code. Some also have an ISO 639-1 two-letter code. The list even includes the Klingon language from the Star Trek science fiction series. There are also country codes.
- languishingly — In a languishing manner.
- last judgment — judgment (def 8).
- laughableness — The state or quality of being laughable; ludicrousness.
- laughing gull — a North American gull, Larus atricilla, having a high, laughlike call.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- launching pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.