13-letter words containing u, g, a
- 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.
- excalibur bug — (humour, programming) The legendary bug that, despite repeated valliant attempts, none but the true king of all programmers can fix. Named after the sword in the stone in the legend of King Arthur.
- 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
- fairy penguin — a small penguin, Eudyptula minor, with a bluish head and back, found on the Australian coast
- farmer's lung — a lung disorder caused by inhalation of moldy hay dust, marked by shortness of breath, dry cough, and weight loss.
- father figure — a man embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the male parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its father.
- fatiguability — Alternative form of fatigability.
- fatigue limit — the maximum stress to which a material can be subjected without failing.
- fatigue party — a group of soldiers undertaking fatigues
- fatigue ratio — the ratio between the fatigue limit and the tensile strength of a material.
- fault-finding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
- figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.
- fish geranium — zonal geranium.
- flag of truce — a white flag displayed as an invitation to the enemy to confer, or carried as a sign of peaceful intention by one sent to deal with the enemy.
- 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
- fluorographic — of or pertaining to fluorography
- flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
- fooling about — the act of speaking or acting in a playful, teasing, or jesting manner
- formula algol — An ALGOL extension for symbolic mathematics, strings and lists, developed by A.J. Perlis and R. Iturriaga at Carnegie for the CDC G-20 in 1962.
- formularising — Present participle of formularise.
- formularizing — Present participle of formularize.
- fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
- french guiana — an overseas department of France, on the NE coast of South America: formerly a French colony. 35,135 sq. mi. (91,000 sq. km). Capital: Cayenne.
- french guinea — former name of Guinea.
- frontal gyrus — any of several convolutions on the outer surface of the frontal lobe of the cerebrum.
- fruit farming — the practice of growing or farming fruit
- 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.
- fugaciousness — (obsolete) fugacity.
- fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
- fun and games — frivolously diverting activity.
- futurological — Pertaining to futurology.
- gabriel fauré — Gabriel Urbain [ga-bree-el oor-ban] /ga briˈɛl urˈbɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1845–1924, French composer.
- galactagogues — Plural form of galactagogue.
- galerie house — (in French Louisiana) a house with its main story above the ground floor and with verandas (galeries) for both stories in tiers on at least one side.
- gallimaufries — Plural form of gallimaufry.
- gallows humor — humor that treats serious, frightening, or painful subject matter in a light or satirical way.
- gametothallus — a gamete-producing thallus.
- gamgee tissue — a type of dressing for wounds
- gap insurance — GAP insurance pays the difference between what someone owes on their car loan and the actual cash value of the vehicle in the event that it is stolen or damaged.
- garbage chute — sloped channel for rubbish disposal
- garbage truck — lorry that collects refuse
- garden suburb — a suburb of a large established town or city, planned along the lines of a garden city
- garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
- garrulousness — Garrulity.
- gartner group — (company) One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA.
- gastric juice — the digestive fluid, containing pepsin and other enzymes, secreted by the glands of the stomach.