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13-letter words containing a, g, u, s, t

  • lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
  • lamb's tongue — a molding having a deep, symmetrical profile ending in a narrow edge, as in a sash bar.
  • language arts — study of reading and writing
  • last judgment — judgment (def 8).
  • laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
  • lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
  • linguistician — linguist (def 1).
  • magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
  • magnitudinous — size; extent; dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle.
  • magnus effect — the thrust on a cylinder rotating about its axis while in motion in a fluid, the thrust being perpendicular to the relative motion of the cylinder in the fluid.
  • megastructure — a very large, usually high-rise building or a complex of such buildings used for many purposes, as for apartments, offices, stores, theaters, and athletic facilities.
  • metalanguages — Plural form of metalanguage.
  • metallurgists — Plural form of metallurgist.
  • metatungstate — (inorganic chemistry) Any tungstate that contains multiple atoms of tungsten e.g. W4O132-.
  • mount aragats — a volcanic mountain in NW Armenia. Height: 4090 m (13 419 ft)
  • mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
  • mulligan stew — a stew made of odd bits of meat and vegetables, esp. as prepared by hobos
  • multi-tasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
  • multigravidas — Plural form of multigravida.
  • multiorgasmic — Capable of multiple orgasms without a refractory period.
  • mycetophagous — That feeds on fungi.
  • noncontagious — capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object: contagious diseases.
  • nonsustaining — Not sustaining; having an end.
  • north augusta — a city in W South Carolina.
  • not a sausage — nothing at all
  • numismatology — Numismatics.
  • nusa tenggara — an island chain east of Java, mostly in Indonesia: the main islands are Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, Alor, and Timor. Pop: 11 112 702 (2000). Area: 73 144 sq km (28 241 sq miles)
  • octagon house — a type of American house, c. 1850, having an octagonal perimeter to reduce exterior wall area.
  • orthognathous — straight-jawed; having the profile of the face vertical or nearly so; having a gnathic index below 98.
  • osmoregulator — Any organism that practices osmoregulation.
  • ostreophagous — oyster-eating
  • outdistancing — Present participle of outdistance.
  • outstandingly — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
  • pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
  • plagiostomous — plagiostome
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • post-graduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
  • postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
  • provost guard — a detachment of soldiers assigned to police duties under the provost marshal.
  • regiomontanus — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
  • running start — Sports. a start, as in the hop, step, and jump or the running broad jump, in which a contestant begins moving before reaching the starting or take-off point.
  • saint-gaudens — Augustus, 1848–1907, U.S. sculptor, born in Ireland.
  • saurognathous — related to or resembling the Saurognathae family of birds that possess palate bones similar to those in saurians or lizards
  • set at naught — to have disregard or scorn for; disdain
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • shih huang ti — 259–210 b.c, Chinese emperor c247–210 b.c. initiated the building of the Great Wall of China.
  • shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
  • single status — a national agreement that aims to avoid unfairness in pay and reward arrangements for employees and to ensure harmonisation of conditions in comparable posts
  • slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
  • solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
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