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14-letter words containing u, g, l, i, n

  • file signature — A magic number.
  • final judgment — judgment (def 8).
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • first language — mother tongue
  • flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
  • fluid coupling — Machinery. an apparatus in which a fluid, usually oil, transmits torque from one shaft to another, producing an equal torque in the other shaft.
  • flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
  • flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
  • 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.
  • focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
  • food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
  • fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
  • fungible issue — a bond issued by a company on the same terms as a bond previously issued by that company, although the redemption yield will probably be different
  • funnily enough — You use funnily enough to indicate that, although something is surprising, it is true or really happened.
  • gallamine blue — a type of mordant dye
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • gamma globulin — a protein fraction of blood plasma that responds to stimulation of antigens, as bacteria or viruses, by forming antibodies: administered therapeutically in the treatment of some viral diseases.
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • general public — people in general
  • geolinguistics — the study of the geographical distribution of languages
  • gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
  • giant puffball — a puffball, Calvatia gigantea, that is the largest of its kind, known to have grown to more than 5 feet (1.6 meters) in circumference.
  • glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
  • glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • golden jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
  • gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • granulomatosis — any disease characterized by the formation of numerous granulomas.
  • granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
  • guardian angel — an angel believed to protect a particular person, as from danger or error.
  • gulf of guinea — a large inlet of the S Atlantic on the W coast of Africa, extending from Cape Palmas, Liberia, to Cape Lopez, Gabon: contains two large bays, the Bight of Bonny and the Bight of Benin, separated by the Niger delta
  • gulf of tonkin — an arm of the South China Sea, bordered by N Vietnam, the Leizhou Peninsula of SW China, and Hainan Island. Length: about 500 km (300 miles)
  • gull-wing door — a car door that opens upwards
  • gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
  • haemagglutinin — Alternative spelling of hemagglutinin.
  • hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
  • hallucinogenic — producing hallucinations: a hallucinogenic drug.
  • hemagglutinate — to cause the clumping of red blood cells in
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • honour killing — a murder committed by a male on a female relative considered to have brought dishonour to the family, usually through sexual activity forbidden by religion or tradition
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • illuminatingly — In an illuminating manner.
  • image-building — improving the brand image or public image of something or someone by good public relations, advertising, etc
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