14-letter words containing a, g, u, s, t
- run out of gas — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- run up against — If you run up against problems, you suddenly begin to experience them.
- rutting season — a recurrent period of sexual excitement and reproductive activity in certain male ruminants, such as the deer, that corresponds to the period of oestrus in females
- sanguification — hematopoiesis.
- saratoga trunk — a type of large traveling trunk used mainly by women during the 19th century.
- sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
- saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
- scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
- schizognathous — (of birds) having a separation in the vomer and maxillo-palatine bones, having a cleft-palate
- scrape through — only just succeed
- security guard — a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
- self-actuating — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
- self-regulated — governed or controlled from within; self-regulating.
- self-slaughter — suicide.
- septuagenarian — of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.
- shooting guard — the player responsible for attempting long-range shots
- shouting match — a loud, often abusive quarrel or argument.
- signature loan — a loan requiring no collateral.
- signature tune — theme song (def 2).
- singular point — a point at which a given function of a complex variable has no derivative but of which every neighborhood contains points at which the function has derivatives.
- slaughterhouse — a building or place where animals are butchered for food; abattoir.
- slaughterously — murderously
- south georgian — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
- spanish guitar — acoustic guitar.
- spermatogenous — producing spermatozoa.
- spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
- squeak through — to succeed, get through, survive, etc. by a narrow margin or with difficulty
- stage business — business (def 10).
- staghorn sumac — a sumac, Rhus typhina, of eastern North America, having leaves that turn scarlet, orange, and purple in the autumn.
- standard gauge — a standard of measure or measurement.
- stegocephalous — having the characteristics of the order Stegocephala
- stigmatiferous — (of a plant) having a stigma
- stony tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 1550 km (960 miles) long
- straight flush — a sequence of five consecutive cards of the same suit.
- 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
- subcontracting — outsourcing of contract work
- sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
- sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
- 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 trading — the fact of opening a shop or business on a Sunday
- supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
- supererogatory — going beyond the requirements of duty.
- supplicatingly — in a pleading manner
- suprasegmental — above, beyond, or in addition to a segment.
- take soundings — to try to find out people's opinions on a subject