13-letter words containing n, u, g
- plug-and-play — Plug-and-play is used to describe computer equipment, for example a printer, that is ready to use immediately when you connect it to a computer.
- plunging fire — artillery or other fire that strikes the ground at a steep angle, as from high ground overlooking the target or from a weapon fired at a high angle of elevation.
- plural voting — right to vote more than once
- pneumatograph — pneumograph.
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- pole-vaulting — a field sport in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
- polygonaceous — belonging to the Polygonaceae, the buckwheat family of plants.
- port language — ["Communicating Parallel Processes", J. Kerridge et al, Soft Prac & Exp 16(1):63-86 (Jan 1986)].
- postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
- pouring-basin — (in a vacuum induction furnace) a trough through which molten metal flows under vacuum to a mold chamber.
- prague spring — a brief period of democratization in Czechoslovakia in 1968, under Alexander Dubček.
- preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- prefiguration — the act of prefiguring.
- prefigurement — to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
- press cutting — an article or picture from a newspaper about someone or something
- price cutting — the act or practice of cutting prices
- primogeniture — the state or fact of being the firstborn of children of the same parents.
- print-through — the unwanted transfer of a recorded magnetic field pattern from one turn of magnetic tape to the preceding or succeeding turn on a reel, causing distortion
- prix goncourt — Goncourt (def 2).
- product range — variety of merchandise within a brand
- prolegomenous — prefatory; preliminary; introductory.
- protolanguage — the reconstructed or postulated parent form of a language or a group of related languages.
- pruning knife — a knife used for pruning
- psychosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in psychosurgery
- pudding basin — A pudding basin is a deep round bowl that is used in the kitchen, especially for mixing or for cooking puddings.
- pudding stone — conglomerate (def 3).
- pulling power — the ability to attract and influence other people
- pulse dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein electrical pulses corresponding to the digits in the number called are generated by manipulating a rotary dial or push buttons (contrasted with tone dialing).
- purse strings — hold the purse strings, to have the power to determine how money shall be spent.
- putting green — green (def 24).
- quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
- quadrilingual — using or involving four languages: a quadrilingual person; a quadrilingual translation of the Bible.
- quadringenary — a 400th anniversary
- quaking aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
- quaking grass — any of several grasses of the genus Briza, having spikelets with slender, drooping stalks.
- quarter grain — the grain appearing in quartersawed wood.
- queen dowager — the widow of a king.
- queen regnant — a queen who reigns on her own behalf
- queen's guide — (in Britain and the Commonwealth when the sovereign is female) a Guide who has passed the highest tests of proficiency
- queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
- queer-looking — odd or strange in appearance
- questioningly — In a questioning manner.
- queue-jumping — If you accuse someone of queue-jumping, you mean that they are trying to get to the front of a queue or waiting list unfairly.
- quick-setting — setting quickly, as a cement, paint, or gelatin.
- quickstepping — Present participle of quickstep.
- quindecagonal — (geometry) Shaped like a quindecagon; fifteen-sided.
- quinquagenary — a 50th anniversary.
- quinquagesima — the Sunday before Lent; Shrove Sunday.
- quota-hopping — (in the EU) the practice of obtaining the right to catch a part of a country's national quota for fish in European waters by buying licences from its fishermen
- rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.