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13-letter words containing u, n, g, l

  • calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
  • canon regular — a clergyman of certain religious communities following a monastic rule
  • capsule range — a small range of clothes by a particular designer, intended to be representative of the full range
  • cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
  • cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
  • cellar fungus — a fungus, Coniophora puteana, that causes dry rot in timber.
  • centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
  • chaise longue — A chaise longue is a kind of sofa with only one arm and usually a back along half its length.
  • chaise lounge — A chaise lounge is the same as a chaise longue.
  • changefulness — Propensity to change.
  • chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
  • chilean guava — a tropical shrub or small tree, Ugni molinae, of the myrtle family, having leathery, oval leaves, rose-pink flowers, and blue-black, edible fruit.
  • churn molding — a molding decorated with chevrons.
  • circularising — Present participle of circularise.
  • circularizing — Present participle of circularize.
  • circumflexing — Present participle of circumflex.
  • circumvolving — Present participle of circumvolve.
  • claim-jumping — a person who seizes another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights.
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
  • coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
  • coco language — (language)   (Cocol) A language for writing left-attributed LL1 grammars, used as the input language for the Coco LL1 parser generator, which produces Modula-2 table-driven parsers as output. Cocol-2 is a version for the Coco-2 generator. Cocol/R is an improvement over the original Cocol and Cocol-2.
  • cold moulding — the production of moulded articles from resins that polymerize chemically
  • college-bound — intending to go to college
  • communalizing — Present participle of communalize.
  • communicology — the study of communication.
  • confabulating — Present participle of confabulate.
  • confoundingly — in a confounding manner
  • conglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglutinate.
  • conglutinator — an agent that conglutinates
  • congratulable — worthy of congratulation
  • congratulated — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
  • congratulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of congratulate.
  • conjugational — Of or pertaining to conjugation.
  • consanguineal — having the same ancestry or descent; related by blood.
  • control group — any group used as a control in a statistical experiment, esp a group of patients who receive either a placebo or a standard drug during an investigation of the effects of another drug on other patients
  • coralligenous — producing coral
  • cucking stool — stool in which suspected witches were tested
  • cunnilinguist — One who gives cunnilingus.
  • cupping glass — a glass vessel from which air can be removed by suction or heat to create a partial vacuum: formerly used in drawing blood to the surface of the skin for slow bloodletting
  • curling irons — a metal scissor-like device that is heated, so that strands of hair may be twined around it in order to form curls
  • curling stone — a large, heavy, ellipsoidal stone or a similar object made of iron, usually having one rough side and one smooth side with a hole in the center of each for screwing in a handle by which the stone is released, for use in the game of curling.
  • curling tongs — a metal scissor-like device that is heated, so that strands of hair may be twined around it in order to form curls
  • cutting fluid — a liquid or gas for cooling or lubricating a cutting tool and a piece of work at their point of contact.
  • cyberbullying — Cyberbullying is the use of the Internet to frighten or upset someone, usually by sending them unpleasant messages.
  • dabbling duck — any of numerous shallow-water ducks, especially of the genus Anas, that typically feed by upending and dabbling (contrasted with diving duck).
  • dean of guild — the titular head of the guild or merchant company in a Scots burgh, who formerly exercised jurisdiction over all building in the burgh in the Dean of Guild Court
  • deglutination — to extract the gluten from.
  • degranulation — a cellular process in which cytoplasmic granules within certain cells secrete their contents, often to the outside of the cell
  • delian league — an alliance of ancient Greek states formed in 478–77 bc to fight Persia
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