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13-letter words containing s, i, n, g, u

  • interreligous — Between religions.
  • 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
  • john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • languishingly — In a languishing manner.
  • 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.
  • lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
  • linguistician — linguist (def 1).
  • litigiousness — of or relating to litigation.
  • lodging house — a house in which rooms are rented, especially a house other than an inn or hotel; rooming house.
  • longsuffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
  • macías nguema — a former name of Bioko.
  • magnanimously — In a magnanimous manner; with greatness of mind.
  • magnesiferous — (geology) Containing magnesium.
  • magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
  • magnitudinous — size; extent; dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle.
  • magnoliaceous — belonging to the plant family Magnoliaceae.
  • manganiferous — containing manganese.
  • manrikigusari — a Japanese chain weapon with weighted ends, intended to strike or ensnare the enemy
  • measuring cup — a graduated cup used especially in cooking for measuring ingredients.
  • measuring jug — a graduated jug used in cooking to measure ingredients
  • measuring rod — ruler, gauge, stick for measuring
  • measuringworm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
  • meeting house — a house or building for religious worship.
  • meeting-house — a house or building for religious worship.
  • meetinghouses — Plural form of meetinghouse.
  • meningococcus — a reniform or spherical bacterium, Neisseria meningitidis, that causes cerebrospinal meningitis.
  • micrognuemacs — (text, tool)   (mg) A Public Domain Emacs-style editor modified from MicroEmacs to be more compatible with GNU Emacs. mg is essentially free, it is not associated with the GNU project, and does not have the GNU copyright restrictions. It is a small, fast, portable editor for people who can't run real Emacs thing for one reason or another. It has few if any of the MicroEmacs features that were incompatible with GNU Emacs and adds missing features that seemed essential. MicroGnuEmacs is derived from, and aims to replace, v30 of MicroEmacs, the latest version from the original MicroEmacs author Dave Conroy. The chief contributors were Mike Meyer <[email protected]>, Mic Kaczmarczik <[email protected]>, Bob Larson, and Dave Brower <[email protected]>. mg version 1a of 1986-11-16 works with 4.2BSD, 4.3BSD, Ultrix-32, OS9/68k, VMS, Amiga, System V, Eunice. It is included in base OpenBSD. It should also support MS-DOS, PC-DOS and the Rainbow.
  • misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
  • misconstruing — Present participle of misconstrue.
  • misguidedness — The state or condition of being misguided.
  • mistrustingly — In a mistrusting manner.
  • mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
  • mud wrestling — sport: physical combat in mud
  • mud-wrestling — wrestling in an enclosure with a floor or base of wet mud, staged as a public display and competitive event.
  • mule spinning — a process of spinning that produces extremely fine yarn by drawing and twisting the roving, and winding the resultant yarn onto a bobbin or spindle in the form of a cop.
  • mulligan stew — a stew made of odd bits of meat and vegetables, esp. as prepared by hobos
  • multi-tasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
  • multilinguist — A speaker of multiple languages; a polyglot.
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