13-letter words containing t, u, n, g, i
- drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
- duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
- ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- eigenfunction — Each of a set of independent functions that are the solutions to a given differential equation.
- electrocuting — Present participle of electrocute.
- encapsulating — Present participle of encapsulate.
- enculturating — Present participle of enculturate.
- ensanguinated — stained with blood
- equilibrating — Present participle of equilibrate.
- ethnolinguist — a person who studies ethnolinguistics
- eusporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a group of cells, rather than a single cell, and with no specialized dispersal of spores
- euthanatizing — Present participle of euthanatize.
- expostulating — Present participle of expostulate.
- exsanguinated — Simple past tense and past participle of exsanguinate.
- extenuatingly — in an extenuating manner
- extinguishant — a substance, such as a liquid, foam, powder, etc, used in extinguishing fires
- extinguishers — Plural form of extinguisher.
- extinguishing — Present participle of extinguish.
- fault-finding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
- filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
- finger buffet — a buffet meal at which food that may be picked up with the fingers (finger food), such as canapés or vol-au-vents, is served
- finger puppet — a miniature puppet fitting over and manipulated by one finger.
- flame cutting — a method of cutting ferrous metals in which the metal is heated by a torch to about 800°C and is oxidized by a stream of oxygen from the torch
- flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
- floutingstock — a laughing-stock; the object of mockery or flouting
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- fn tunnelling — Fowler-Nordheim tunnelling
- fooling about — the act of speaking or acting in a playful, teasing, or jesting manner
- frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
- fruit farming — the practice of growing or farming fruit
- fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
- frustratingly — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
- furring strip — a strip of wood or metal fixed to a wall, floor, or ceiling to provide a surface for the fixing of plasterboard, floorboards, etc
- garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
- gastrocnemius — the largest muscle in the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot, raises the heel, and assists in bending the knee.
- geitonogamous — of or relating to geitonogamy
- general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
- generic thunk — (programming) A software mechanism that allows a 16-bit Windows application to load and call a Win32 DLL under Windows NT and Windows 95. See also flat thunk, universal thunk.
- genitourinary — of or relating to the genital and urinary organs; urogenital.
- genre-busting — not conforming to established patterns, styles, etc
- gentianaceous — belonging to the plant family Gentianaceae.
- genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
- gesticulating — Present participle of gesticulate.
- gesticulation — the act of gesticulating.
- giant sequoia — big tree.
- glass curtain — a transparent or translucent curtain covering the interior of a window opening.
- glutinousness — The quality of being glutinous.
- godwin-austen — Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
- good question — pertinent or insightful enquiry