12-letter words containing u, g, l
- gullibleness — Gullibility.
- gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
- gutturalized — pronounced with guttural coarticulation.
- gutturalness — The quality of being guttural.
- gutturonasal — articulated in the back of the mouth and given resonance in the nasal cavity, as the sound represented by (ng) in (ring).
- h paul grice — H(erbert) Paul, 1913–88, English philosopher.
- half-turning — split spindle.
- hallucinogen — a substance that produces hallucinations.
- hand luggage — carry-on baggage
- haulage firm — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- hauraki gulf — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, on the N coast of North Island, New Zealand.
- hazel grouse — a European woodland grouse, Tetrastes bonasia, somewhat resembling the North American ruffed grouse.
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
- heliogravure — photoengraving.
- herring gull — a common, large gull, Larus argentatus, of the Northern Hemisphere.
- heterologous — Biology. of different origin; pertaining to heterology.
- high hurdles — a race in which runners leap over hurdles 42 inches (107 cm) high.
- high-quality — adhering to an excellent standard of measure; of superior quality: Education depends on high-quality teachers and materials in our schools.
- highfaluting — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
- hillsborough — a town in W California.
- hologonidium — soredium.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- homologumena — the books in the New Testament generally held as authoritative and canonical by the early church.
- house league — a sports league in which the members of all teams belong to the same organization, school, or company
- house lights — lights of a residential building
- housing list — a list of people waiting to obtain council houses
- hugh loebner — (person) Dr. Hugh Gene Loebner, the instigator of the Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence. E-mail address: Hugh Loebner <[email protected]>.
- hygrophilous — a plant that thrives in wet or very moist ground.
- iguaçú falls — a waterfall on the border between Brazil and Argentina, on the Iguaçú River: divided into hundreds of separate falls by forested rocky islands. Width: about 4 km (2.5 miles). Height: 82 m (269 ft)
- illuminating — to enlighten, as with knowledge.
- illustrating — Present participle of illustrate.
- immunoglobin — (immunology, protein) Any protein that functions as an antibody.
- immunologist — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
- incoagulable — of a nature that cannot be coagulated
- inconcluding — (obsolete) Inferring no consequence.
- indigenously — originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often followed by to): the plants indigenous to Canada; the indigenous peoples of southern Africa.
- indologenous — producing or causing the production of indole.
- indulgencies — indulgence.
- indulgencing — Present participle of indulgence.
- inexpugnable — incapable of being taken by force; impregnable; unconquerable.
- inexpungible — that cannot be expunged, erased, or obliterated; inextirpable.
- ingleborough — a mountain in N England, in North Yorkshire: potholes. Height: 723 m (2373 ft)
- ingloriously — In an inglorious manner.
- inosculating — Present participle of inosculate.
- insightfully — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
- interlingual — pertaining to or using two or more languages: an interlingual dictionary.
- intralingual — within a given language; of or pertaining to a single language.
- intriguingly — to arouse the curiosity or interest of by unusual, new, or otherwise fascinating or compelling qualities; appeal strongly to; captivate: The plan intrigues me, but I wonder if it will work.
- irregularity — the quality or state of being irregular.