13-letter words containing l, g, u, c
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
- quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
- quindecagonal — (geometry) Shaped like a quindecagon; fifteen-sided.
- rambling club — a club for people who enjoy taking walks in the country
- revictualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
- school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
- school outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
- single sculls — a race for sculls each rowed by one oarsman using a pair of oars.
- slimming club — a group of people who meet regularly and are all trying to lose weight
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- squirrel cage — a cage containing a cylindrical framework that is rotated by a squirrel or other small animal running inside of it.
- sterculia gum — karaya gum.
- subcollegiate — of, relating to, or characteristic of subcollege students or a subcollege
- sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- suicidologist — someone who studies suicidology
- supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
- surgical boot — a specially designed boot or shoe that compensates for deformities of the foot or leg
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- telecommuting — working at home by using a computer terminal electronically linked to one's place of employment.
- touch-in-goal — the area at each end of the field outside of a touch-in-goal line.
- tramping club — an organization of people who walk for recreation, esp in the bush
- ugly american — An Ugly American is an American who travels to a foreign country and gives the United States a bad reputation by acting in an offensive way.
- ugly customer — a hostile or dangerous person.
- ugly duckling — an unattractive or unpromising child who becomes a beautiful or much-admired adult.
- ullage rocket — a small hydrogen peroxide rocket engine that produces sufficient acceleration to keep propellants in their places when the main rocket is shut off
- uncalculating — not calculating or scheming; guileless
- uncamouflaged — the act, means, or result of obscuring things to deceive an enemy, as by painting or screening objects so that they are lost to view in the background, or by making up objects that from a distance have the appearance of fortifications, guns, roads, etc.: Was camouflage used extensively on fighter aircraft during World War I?
- uncategorical — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.
- unchallenging — not challenging or difficult; not providing a challenge; easy
- uncomplaining — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
- unconflicting — being in conflict or disagreement; not compatible: conflicting viewpoints.
- uncontrolling — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- underclothing — clothing worn next to the skin under outer clothes.
- underclubbing — the action of hitting with a club resulting in insufficient distance
- unevangelical — not religiously orthodox; not in accordance with the Christian gospel
- unflinchingly — not flinching; unshrinking: unflinching courage.
- ungrammatical — grammatically incorrect or awkward; not conforming to the rules or principles of grammar or accepted usage: an ungrammatical sentence.
- unideological — not having, belonging to, or relating to any particular ideology or belief system
- union catalog — a library catalog combining the catalogs of several different libraries or different divisions of one library
- unreconciling — to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired: He was reconciled to his fate.
- untheological — not theological; not of or pertaining to the nature of theology
- virgo cluster — a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.
- wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
- zygodactylous — Also, zygodactylous. (of a bird) having the toes of each foot arranged in pairs, with two toes in front and two behind.