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13-letter words containing u, n, t, o

  • function room — a room designated for official or formal social gatherings or ceremonies
  • function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).
  • functionalise — to make functional.
  • functionalism — (usually initial capital letter) Chiefly Architecture, Furniture. a design movement evolved from several previous movements or schools in Europe in the early 20th century, advocating the design of buildings, furnishings, etc., as direct fulfillments of material requirements, as for shelter, repose, or the serving of food, with the construction, materials, and purpose clearly expressed or at least not denied, and with aesthetic effect derived chiefly from proportions and finish, purely decorative effects being excluded or greatly subordinated. the doctrines and practices associated with this movement. Compare rationalism (def 4).
  • functionalist — a person who advocates, or works according to, the principles of functionalism.
  • functionality — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • functionalize — to make functional.
  • functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
  • funemployment — the condition of a person who enjoys being out of work
  • garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
  • gartner group — (company)   One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA.
  • gastrocnemius — the largest muscle in the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot, raises the heel, and assists in bending the knee.
  • geitonogamous — of or relating to geitonogamy
  • general court — the state legislature of Massachusetts or New Hampshire.
  • genitourinary — of or relating to the genital and urinary organs; urogenital.
  • gentianaceous — belonging to the plant family Gentianaceae.
  • genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
  • gesticulation — the act of gesticulating.
  • get around to — When you get around to doing something that you have delayed doing or have been too busy to do, you finally do it.
  • get-up-and-go — energy, drive, and enthusiasm.
  • giant sequoia — big tree.
  • glutinousness — The quality of being glutinous.
  • go great guns — to act or function with great speed, intensity, etc
  • go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
  • god's country — an area or region supposed to be favored by God, especially a naturally beautiful rural area.
  • godwin-austen — Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
  • good question — pertinent or insightful enquiry
  • goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • granulomatous — an inflammatory tumor or growth composed of granulation tissue.
  • graticulation — the division of a design, plan, etc into squares in order to improve the accuracy of enlargement or reduction
  • great council — (in Norman England) an assembly composed of the king's tenants in chief that served as the principal council of the realm and replaced the witenagemot.
  • grotesqueness — odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
  • ground attack — an attack using ground forces, as opposed to air or naval forces
  • ground beetle — any of numerous nocturnal, terrestrial beetles of the family Carabidae that feed chiefly on other insects.
  • ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
  • ground return — Ground return is the return path for an electrical circuit made by connections to ground at each end.
  • ground stroke — a stroke made by hitting the ball after it has bounced from the ground. Compare volley (def 4b).
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • ground troops — soldiers positioned on the ground
  • ground-to-air — (of weapons) designed to be fired at aircraft from the ground
  • groundnut oil — a mild-tasting oil extracted from peanuts and used in cooking
  • groundstrokes — Plural form of groundstroke.
  • group annuity — a plan in which the members of a group, usually employees of the same company, receive annuities upon retirement.
  • group captain — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a wing commander but junior to an air commodore in the RAF and certain other air forces
  • gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
  • guesstimation — (pejorative) An estimation made without good justification and often biased.
  • gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • gunshot wound — bullet injury caused by a firearm
  • haematogenous — producing blood
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