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13-letter words containing a, e, r, u, g

  • rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
  • rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
  • rough passage — a stormy sea journey
  • rubberbanding — (in online video games) the backward popping of characters in motion to their recently occupied spaces that results from high latency in the network connection.
  • ruggedization — the act or process of making something rugged
  • run sb ragged — If someone runs you ragged, they make you do so much that you become exhausted.
  • run the gamut — The gamut of something is the complete range of things of that kind, or a wide variety of things of that kind.
  • running belay — the clipping of the rope through a karabiner attached to a sling, piton, nut, etc, secured to the mountain: used by a leading climber of a team to reduce the length of a possible fall
  • sales figures — the amount of sales of something within a particular time frame
  • shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
  • south georgia — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
  • spermatangium — the organ that produces spermatia in red algae.
  • spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
  • spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
  • spurge laurel — a European thymelaeaceous evergreen shrub, Daphne laureola, with glossy leaves and small green flowers
  • squanderingly — in a squandering manner
  • square-rigged — having square sails as the principal sails.
  • square-rigger — having square sails as the principal sails.
  • 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.
  • stereoregular — pertaining to stereochemical regularity or having repeating units in a sequential configuration
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • strange quark — a quark having electric charge −1/3 times the elementary charge and strangeness −1; it is more massive than the up and down quarks.
  • student grant — a grant of money awarded to somebody to fund their studying at a university or college
  • sub-aggregate — formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined: the aggregate amount of indebtedness.
  • subastringent — slightly astringent.
  • subcategorize — to split into subcategories
  • subgeneration — a generation within another generation
  • sugar of lead — lead acetate.
  • sunken garden — a formal garden set below the main level of the ground surrounding it.
  • superdelegate — a party leader or elected public official chosen as an uncommitted delegate to a national political convention.
  • supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
  • supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
  • superorganism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
  • superregional — involving many regions
  • surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
  • table-turning — the movement of a table attributed by spiritualists to the power of spirits working through a group of persons placing their hands or fingers on the table top
  • texas leaguer — a pop fly that falls safely between converging infielders and outfielders.
  • thoroughbrace — either of two strong leather straps upon which the body of certain types of carriage is supported
  • thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
  • trade figures — a record of how much a country has paid for goods which it has bought from other countries, compared with how much it has been paid for goods which it has sold to other countries
  • trigger guard — safety feature on a gun
  • troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • tubing hanger — A tubing hanger is a device which is attached to the top tubing joint and supports the tubing.
  • turangawaewae — the area that is a person's home
  • turbo-charged — A turbo-charged engine or vehicle is fitted with a turbo.
  • 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.
  • 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
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