14-letter words containing u, d, a, g
- flying gurnard — any marine fish of the family Dactylopteridae, especially Dactylopterus volitans, having greatly enlarged, colorful pectoral fins that enable it to glide short distances through the air.
- forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
- garden produce — cultivated or farm-produced goods, such as fruit and vegetables
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- garlic mustard — a plant, Alliaria petiolata, of N temperate regions, with small white flowers and an odour of garlic: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
- gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
- gender-neutral — noting or relating to a word or phrase that does not refer to one gender only: Firefighter and flight attendant are gender-neutral terms.
- gerald sussman — (person) (Gerald J. Sussman, Jerry) A noted hacker at MIT and one of the developers of SCHEME and 6.001.
- git-up-and-git — get-up-and-go.
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
- glutaraldehyde — a nonflammable liquid, C 5 H 8 O 2 , soluble in water and alcohol, toxic and an irritant, used for tanning leather and as a fixative for samples to be examined under the electron microscope.
- go a bundle on — to be extremely fond of
- go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
- golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
- gouda (cheese) — a mild, semisoft to hard cheese similar to Edam and sometimes coated with red wax
- gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
- graduate nurse — a person who has graduated from an accredited school of nursing.
- graduation day — the day on which the ceremony is held at which university or college degrees and diplomas are conferred
- grand junction — a city in W Colorado.
- grand seigneur — a dignified or aristocratic man
- granddaughters — Plural form of granddaughter.
- grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- granny dumping — the abandonment of an elderly person, especially a relative, at a hospital, bus station, etc.
- grapple ground — an anchorage, especially for small vessels.
- great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
- greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
- ground leakage — Ground leakage is the flow of current from a live conductor to the earth through the insulation.
- groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
- guadalupe palm — a fan palm, Brahea (or Erythea) edulis, of southern California, having long clusters of globe-shaped, black, edible fruit.
- guard of honor — a guard specially designated for welcoming or escorting distinguished guests or for accompanying a casket in a military funeral.
- guardian angel — an angel believed to protect a particular person, as from danger or error.
- guided imagery — a relaxation technique in which words, sounds, etc., are used to evoke positive mental images, feelings, and thoughts.
- guido d'arezzo — (Guido Aretinus"Fra Guittone") c995–1049? Italian monk and music theorist: reformer of musical notation.
- gulf of anadyr — an inlet of the Bering Sea, off the coast of NE Russia
- guy fawkes day — (in Britain) November 5, celebrating the anniversary of the capture of Guy Fawkes.
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- hardy ageratum — the mistflower.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- huffman coding — (algorithm) A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
- hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- image-building — improving the brand image or public image of something or someone by good public relations, advertising, etc
- indian pudding — a sweet baked pudding made of cornmeal, molasses, milk, and various spices.
- judge advocate — a staff officer designated as legal adviser to a commander and charged with the administration of military justice.
- judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
- landing ground — airfield
- language death — the complete displacement of one language by another in a population of speakers.
- langue de chat — a flat sweet finger-shaped biscuit