14-letter words containing o, u, t, g
- deuteragonists — Plural form of deuteragonist.
- devil's-tongue — a foul-smelling, fleshy plant, Amorphophallus rivieri, of the Old World tropics, having flowers on a spike surrounded by a dark-red spathe.
- disambiguation — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- double-tongued — deceitful; hypocritical.
- downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
- downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
- drag your feet — dawdle
- dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
- draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
- draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
- drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.
- drug addiction — dependence on a chemical substance
- drummond light — calcium light.
- dry rot fungus — a fungus, Merulius lacrymans, that causes a common type of dry rot.
- dusting powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
- dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- education page — a page in a newspaper devoted to news relating to education or teaching
- electrosurgery — Surgery using a high-frequency electric current to heat and so cut tissue with great precision.
- encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
- engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
- ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
- ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
- eulogistically — In the form or manner of a eulogy; with praise.
- exsanguination — The action of draining a person, animal, or organ of blood.
- faculty lounge — a staffroom
- finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
- flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
- focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
- follow through — the act of following.
- follow-through — the completion of a motion, as in the stroke of a tennis racket.
- forethoughtful — full of or having forethought; provident.
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
- fountain grass — a perennial grass, Pennisetum setaceum, of Ethiopia, having bristly spikes, often rose-purple, grown as an ornamental.
- frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
- galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
- gamma function — a function defined by Γ(x) = ∫0∞tx–1e–tdt, where x is real and greater than zero
- gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
- gastrovascular — serving for digestion and circulation, as a cavity.
- gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
- geiger counter — an instrument for detecting ionizing radiations, consisting of a gas-filled tube in which electric-current pulses are produced when the gas is ionized by radiation, and of a device to register these pulses: used chiefly to measure radioactivity.
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- gentoo penguin — a penguin, Pygoscelis papua, of small Antarctic islands.
- geolinguistics — the study of the geographical distribution of languages
- gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.