14-letter words containing a, g, u, s
- glauber's salt — the decahydrate form of sodium sulfate, a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 4 ·10H 2 O, used chiefly in textile dyeing and as a cathartic.
- go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- gouda (cheese) — a mild, semisoft to hard cheese similar to Edam and sometimes coated with red wax
- graduate nurse — a person who has graduated from an accredited school of nursing.
- grand seigneur — a dignified or aristocratic man
- granddaughters — Plural form of granddaughter.
- granulomatosis — any disease characterized by the formation of numerous granulomas.
- gratuitousness — The state or characteristic of being gratuitous.
- great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
- greenhouse gas — any of the gases whose absorption of solar radiation is responsible for the greenhouse effect, including carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and the fluorocarbons.
- gregariousness — fond of the company of others; sociable.
- group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
- grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
- gulf of alaska — the N part of the Pacific, between the Alaska Peninsula and the Alexander Archipelago
- gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- guy fawkes day — (in Britain) November 5, celebrating the anniversary of the capture of Guy Fawkes.
- gypsum plaster — plaster made primarily of gypsum.
- haematophagous — (of certain animals) feeding on blood
- haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- housing estate — housing development.
- housing market — property trade
- hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- hunting season — annual period when hunting is permitted
- ichthyophagous — the practice of eating or subsisting on fish.
- immunostaining — (uncountable, immunology) Any of several staining techniques that are used to detect specific proteins.
- interlanguages — Plural form of interlanguage.
- irregularities — the quality or state of being irregular.
- isocyano group — the univalent group −NC.
- jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
- judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
- kings mountain — a ridge in N South Carolina: American victory over the British 1780.
- kwangsi chuang — Guangxi Zhuang.
- lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
- languorousness — The quality of being languorous.
- lapsus linguae — a slip of the tongue.
- laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
- last judgement — In the Christian religion, the Last Judgement is the last day of the world when God will judge everyone who has died and decide whether they will go to Heaven or Hell.
- laughing stock — object of others' amusement
- laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
- laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
- league leaders — the team at the top of a league
- lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
- linguistically — of or belonging to language: linguistic change.
- longleat house — an Elizabethan mansion near Warminster in Wiltshire, built (from 1568) by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne; the grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown, now contain a famous safari park
- lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long