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14-letter words containing t, u, n, g, s

  • gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
  • get a guernsey — to be selected or gain recognition for something
  • gibbs function — the thermodynamic function of a system that is equal to its enthalpy minus the product of its absolute temperture and entropy: a decrease in the function is equal to the maximum amount of work available exclusive of that due to pressure times volume change during a reversible, isothermal, isobaric process.
  • giganotosaurus — Any of several very large, carnivorous dinosaurs of the subfamily Giganotosaurinae, from the Cretaceous period.
  • glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
  • gluttonousness — The quality of being gluttonous.
  • go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • graduate nurse — a person who has graduated from an accredited school of nursing.
  • granddaughters — Plural form of granddaughter.
  • granulomatosis — any disease characterized by the formation of numerous granulomas.
  • gratuitousness — The state or characteristic of being gratuitous.
  • great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
  • groundsel tree — a composite shrub, Baccharis halimifolia, having dull, gray-green leaves and fruit with tufts of long, white hair, growing in salt marshes of eastern North America.
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
  • gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
  • gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • hound's-tongue — any of various plants belonging to the genus Cynoglossum, of the borage family, especially C. officinale, having coarse, tongue-shaped leaves, dull purple flowers, and prickly nutlets.
  • housing estate — housing development.
  • housing market — property trade
  • hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • hunting season — annual period when hunting is permitted
  • immunogenetics — the branch of immunology dealing with the study of immunity in relation to genetic makeup.
  • immunostaining — (uncountable, immunology) Any of several staining techniques that are used to detect specific proteins.
  • incontiguously — in an incontiguous or unconnected fashion; discretely
  • insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
  • interest group — a group of people drawn or acting together in support of a common interest or to voice a common concern: Political interest groups seek to influence legislation.
  • interlanguages — Plural form of interlanguage.
  • interreligious — existing or communicating between different religions.
  • intertriginous — (medicine) Of or relating to intertrigo.
  • jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
  • judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
  • kings mountain — a ridge in N South Carolina: American victory over the British 1780.
  • lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
  • last judgement — In the Christian religion, the Last Judgement is the last day of the world when God will judge everyone who has died and decide whether they will go to Heaven or Hell.
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • light industry — consumer goods manufacturing
  • lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • linguistically — of or belonging to language: linguistic change.
  • longleat house — an Elizabethan mansion near Warminster in Wiltshire, built (from 1568) by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne; the grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown, now contain a famous safari park
  • lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
  • manslaughterer — (legal) Someone who commits manslaughter.
  • manual testing — (testing)   That part of software testing that requires human input, analysis, or evaluation.
  • metalinguistic — Pertaining to metalinguistics.
  • miscalculating — Present participle of miscalculate.
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