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13-letter words containing ui

  • fruit farming — the practice of growing or farming fruit
  • fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
  • fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
  • fruitlessness — The quality of being fruitless.
  • gastric juice — the digestive fluid, containing pepsin and other enzymes, secreted by the glands of the stomach.
  • grand guignol — a short drama stressing horror and sensationalism.
  • gray squirrel — a common, grayish squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis, of eastern North America.
  • grey squirrel — a grey-furred squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis, native to E North America but now widely established elsewhere
  • ground sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
  • group annuity — a plan in which the members of a group, usually employees of the same company, receive annuities upon retirement.
  • guilelessness — free from guile; sincere; honest; straightforward; frank.
  • guilt complex — If you say that someone has a guilt complex about something, you mean that they feel very guilty about it, in a way that you consider is exaggerated, unreasonable, or unnecessary.
  • guiltlessness — The state of being guiltless; innocence.
  • guinea grains — Usually, grains of paradise. one of the pungent, peppery seeds of an African plant, Aframomum melegueta, of the ginger family, used to strengthen cordials and in veterinary medicine.
  • guinea pepper — grain of paradise.
  • guinea-bissau — a republic on the W coast of Africa, between Guinea and Senegal: formerly a Portuguese overseas province; gained independence in 1974. 13,948 sq. mi. (36,125 sq. km). Capital: Bissau.
  • harlequin bug — a black stink bug, Murgantia histrionica, having red and yellow markings, that feeds on cabbages and other cruciferous plants.
  • harlequinades — Plural form of harlequinade.
  • haute cuisine — fine or gourmet cooking; food preparation as an art.
  • heavily built — with a big heavy body
  • heavy cruiser — a naval cruiser having 8-inch (20.3-cm) guns as its main armament.
  • housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
  • ill-disguised — badly concealed or hidden.
  • in perpetuity — the state or character of being perpetual (often preceded by in): to desire happiness in perpetuity.
  • in-perpetuity — the state or character of being perpetual (often preceded by in): to desire happiness in perpetuity.
  • inacquiescent — Not acquiescent.
  • incongruities — the quality or condition of being incongruous.
  • indigo squill — wild hyacinth.
  • indolequinone — (chemistry) Any of a class of molecules based upon an indole but with two additional ketone groups (quinone) attached to the ring structure.
  • inequilateral — not equilateral; having unequal sides.
  • inequivalence — The condition of being inequivalent.
  • inquire after — to seek information by questioning; ask: to inquire about a person.
  • inquiry agent — a private detective
  • inquisitional — Of or pertaining to an inquisition.
  • inquisitioned — Simple past tense and past participle of inquisition.
  • inquisitively — given to inquiry, research, or asking questions; eager for knowledge; intellectually curious: an inquisitive mind.
  • inquisitorial — of or relating to an inquisitor or inquisition.
  • intuitionally — With intuition.
  • intuitiveness — perceiving directly by intuition without rational thought, as a person or the mind.
  • issuing house — a financial institution that engages in finding capital for established companies or for private firms wishing to convert to public companies, by issuing shares on their behalf
  • jequitinhonha — a river in E Brazil, flowing from the state of Minas Gerais to the Atlantic Ocean. 500 miles (805 km) long.
  • jesuit's bark — cinchona (def 2).
  • jus sanguinis — the principle that the country of nationality of a child is that of the country of nationality of the parents.
  • languishingly — In a languishing manner.
  • light cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
  • lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
  • linguistician — linguist (def 1).
  • liquid assets — assets in the form of money or easily convertible into money
  • liquid oxygen — a clear, pale blue liquid obtained by compressing oxygen and then cooling it below its boiling point: used chiefly as an oxidizer in liquid rocket propellants.
  • liquid storax — a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
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