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14-letter words containing a, g, e, u

  • spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
  • square-bashing — drill on a barrack square
  • square-dancing — the activity of taking part in a square dance
  • squeak through — to succeed, get through, survive, etc. by a narrow margin or with difficulty
  • stage business — business (def 10).
  • standard gauge — a standard of measure or measurement.
  • stegocephalous — having the characteristics of the order Stegocephala
  • stigmatiferous — (of a plant) having a stigma
  • straighten out — make straighter
  • string quartet — a musical composition, usually in three or four movements, for four stringed instruments, typically two violins, viola, and cello.
  • sturgeon's law — "Ninety percent of everything is crap". Derived from a quote by science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon, who once said, "Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud." Oddly, when Sturgeon's Law is cited, the final word is almost invariably changed to "crap". Compare Ninety-Ninety Rule. Though this maxim originated in SF fandom, most hackers recognise it and are all too aware of its truth.
  • sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
  • subaggregation — a subtotalling
  • subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
  • submachine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
  • sugar refinery — place where sugar is processed
  • sugar snap pea — snap pea.
  • sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
  • sugared almond — Sugared almonds are nuts which have been covered with a hard sweet coating.
  • summer sausage — dried or smoked sausage that keeps without refrigeration.
  • summer tanager — a tanager, Piranga rubra, of the south and central U.S., the male of which is rose-red, the female olive-green above and yellow below.
  • sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
  • supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
  • supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
  • supererogatory — going beyond the requirements of duty.
  • suprasegmental — above, beyond, or in addition to a segment.
  • surpassingness — the fact of surpassing
  • take soundings — to try to find out people's opinions on a subject
  • tanen taunggyi — a mountain range in NW Thailand and SE Burma, rising to a height of 7000 feet (2134 meters).
  • tangata whenua — the indigenous Māori people of a particular area of New Zealand or of the country as a whole
  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
  • the blue angel — a legendary German expressionist film of 1930, the first major German sound film, starring Marlene Dietrich
  • the game is up — If you say the game is up, you mean that someone's secret plans or activities have been revealed and therefore must stop because they cannot succeed.
  • the ivy league — a group of eight universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth College, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale) that have similar academic and social prestige in the US to Oxford and Cambridge in Britain
  • the last laugh — the final success in an argument, situation, etc, after previous defeat
  • the red guards — a radical political movement of civilian youths in China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution
  • thermoregulate — to maintain regular temperature, esp regular body temperature
  • thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
  • thorough brace — either of two strong braces or bands of leather supporting the body of a coach or other vehicle and connecting the front and back springs.
  • thought-reader — someone who can read minds or psychically know others' thoughts
  • thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
  • time signature — a numerical or other indication at the beginning of a piece showing the meter.
  • to gather dust — If you say that something is gathering dust, you mean that it has been left somewhere and nobody is using it or doing anything with it.
  • tongue-lashing — severe scolding
  • trade language — a lingua franca, especially one used primarily for trade and conducting business.
  • transit lounge — a waiting room at an international airport used mainly by passengers transferring from one flight to another without presenting themselves to customs or immigration officials
  • tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
  • turbogenerator — a large electrical generator driven by a steam turbine
  • turing machine — a hypothetical device with a set of logical rules of computation: the concept is used in mathematical studies of the computability of numbers and in the mathematical theories of automata and computers.
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