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14-letter words containing u, g, l

  • gallamine blue — a type of mordant dye
  • gallows humour — sinister and ironic humour
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • 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.
  • garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
  • garlic mustard — a plant, Alliaria petiolata, of N temperate regions, with small white flowers and an odour of garlic: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • garlic sausage — sausage meat flavoured with garlic
  • gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
  • gastrovascular — serving for digestion and circulation, as a cavity.
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • gemuetlichkeit — warm cordiality; comfortable friendliness; congeniality.
  • 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.
  • general public — people in general
  • geolinguistics — the study of the geographical distribution of languages
  • george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
  • gerald sussman — (person)   (Gerald J. Sussman, Jerry) A noted hacker at MIT and one of the developers of SCHEME and 6.001.
  • 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
  • glauber's salt — the decahydrate form of sodium sulfate, a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 4 ·10H 2 O, used chiefly in textile dyeing and as a cathartic.
  • global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
  • glucocorticoid — any of a class of steroid hormones that are synthesized by the adrenal cortex of vertebrates and have anti-inflammatory activity.
  • 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.
  • gluteus medius — the muscle of the buttocks lying between the gluteus maximus and the gluteus minimus, involved in the abduction of the thigh.
  • gluttonousness — The quality of being gluttonous.
  • glyceryl group — the trivalent group (C 3 H 5)− 3 , derived from glycerol.
  • go a bundle on — to be extremely fond of
  • go up the wall — to become crazy or furious
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
  • grapple ground — an anchorage, especially for small vessels.
  • ground control — an airport facility that supervises the movement of aircraft and ground vehicles on ramps and taxiways.
  • ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
  • ground leakage — Ground leakage is the flow of current from a live conductor to the earth through the insulation.
  • groundlessness — The state or condition of being groundless.
  • 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.
  • group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
  • guadalupe palm — a fan palm, Brahea (or Erythea) edulis, of southern California, having long clusters of globe-shaped, black, edible fruit.
  • guardian angel — an angel believed to protect a particular person, as from danger or error.
  • guatemala city — a republic in N Central America. 42,042 sq. mi. (108,889 sq. km).
  • guided missile — an aerial missile, as a rocket, steered during its flight by radio signals, clockwork controls, etc.
  • gulf of alaska — the N part of the Pacific, between the Alaska Peninsula and the Alexander Archipelago
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