13-letter words containing n, u, g
- numerologists — the study of numbers, as the figures designating the year of one's birth, to determine their supposed influence on one's life, future, etc.
- numismatology — Numismatics.
- nun's veiling — a thin, plain-woven, worsted fabric, originally for nuns' veils but now also for dresses, coats, etc.
- nuremberg egg — an egg-shaped watch of the 16th century: one of the earliest watches.
- nusa tenggara — an island chain east of Java, mostly in Indonesia: the main islands are Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, Alor, and Timor. Pop: 11 112 702 (2000). Area: 73 144 sq km (28 241 sq miles)
- nutmeg grater — a utensil used to grate the seed nutmeg, so that is can be used as a spice in cooking, etc
- nutrigenetics — the branch of science concerned with the effect of heredity on diet and nutrition
- nutrigenomics — the study of how individual genetic makeup interacts with diet, especially the effects of this interaction on a person's health.
- oblique angle — an angle that is not a right angle; an acute or obtuse angle.
- octagon house — a type of American house, c. 1850, having an octagonal perimeter to reduce exterior wall area.
- odontoglossum — any epiphytic orchid of the genus Odontoglossum, of the mountainous regions from Bolivia to Mexico.
- off soundings — in waters more than 100 fathoms in depth
- old and young — people of all ages
- old bulgarian — the Bulgarian language of the Middle Ages.
- oligofluorene — (organic chemistry) Any of a class of aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons consisting of several fluorene units attached end-to-end.
- on your guard — If you are on your guard or on guard, you are being very careful because you think a situation might become difficult or dangerous.
- opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
- orange roughy — a marine food fish, Hoplosthenus atlanticus, of S Pacific waters
- orange squash — an orange-flavoured drink made from fruit juice, sugar, and water
- organ-builder — a maker of organs
- organolithium — (organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to lithium bond.
- orthognathous — straight-jawed; having the profile of the face vertical or nearly so; having a gnathic index below 98.
- out of danger — no longer at risk
- outdistancing — Present participle of outdistance.
- outgeneraling — Present participle of outgeneral.
- outgeneralled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
- outperforming — Present participle of outperform.
- outprocessing — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
- outstandingly — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
- outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
- over-trusting — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
- overburdening — Present participle of overburden.
- overencourage — to encourage too much
- overingenious — ingenious to a fault
- overingenuity — the state of being ingenious to a fault
- p'u-t'ung hua — the form of Chinese, based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, adopted as the official national language of China.
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- pantagruelian — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
- parade ground — A parade ground is an area of ground where soldiers practise marching and have parades.
- pease pudding — a pudding of strained split peas mixed with egg.
- phonautograph — a piece of equipment that records sound visually by detecting the sound waves and indicating them on a graph
- pigouvian tax — a tax levied to counter an economic negative externality, for example taxing producers of industrial pollution in order to encourage pollution control
- piper gurnard — a marine fish, Trigla lyra, of the family Triglidae
- plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
- plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
- plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
- plug and play — (sometimes lowercase) a standard for the production of compatible computers, peripherals, and software that facilitates device installation and enables automatic configuration of the system.
- plug and pray — (humour) The Windows 95 equivalent of the Macintosh's plug and play, referring to difficulties encountered when setting up new hardware under Windows 95.