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16-letter words containing a, g, u, s

  • nondurable goods — goods that remain usable for, or must be replaced within, a relatively short period of time, as food, apparel, or fabrics
  • organophosphorus — Denoting synthetic organic compounds containing phosphorus, especially pesticides and nerve gases of this kind.
  • osculating plane — the plane containing the circle of curvature of a point on a given curve.
  • pacific sturgeon — a dark gray sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, inhabiting marine and fresh waters along the northwestern coast of North America, valued as a food and sport fish.
  • phosphor fatigue — screen saver
  • pleasure-seeking — always looking for pleasure
  • portuguese india — a former Portuguese overseas territory on the W coast of India, consisting of the districts of Gôa, Daman, and Diu: annexed by India December 1961. Capital: Gôa.
  • pressure flaking — a method of manufacturing a flint tool by pressing flakes from a stone core with a pointed implement, usually of wood tipped with antler or copper.
  • preunderstanding — to perceive the meaning of; grasp the idea of; comprehend: to understand Spanish; I didn't understand your question.
  • punitive damages — law: penalty payment
  • purchasing agent — a person who buys materials, supplies, equipment, etc., for a company.
  • purchasing power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
  • put out to grass — If you say that someone is being put out to grass, you mean they are no longer being employed because they are considered to be too old or no longer useful.
  • qin shi huang di — Ch'in Shih Huang Ti.
  • quasi-legitimate — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
  • quasi-managerial — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
  • quinquagenarians — Plural form of quinquagenarian.
  • regular gasoline — unleaded gasoline or petrol, as for fuelling a vehicle, etc
  • religious leader — head of a church or order
  • reporting clause — A reporting clause is a clause which indicates that you are talking about what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'She said' is a reporting clause.
  • run a tight ship — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
  • run rings around — a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, especially one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc.
  • russian dressing — a sharp mayonnaise dressing containing chopped pickles, chili sauce or ketchup, pimientos, etc.
  • safeguard clause — a clause in a contract, etc, that ensures the protection of something against problems, etc
  • saint petersburg — Also called Russian Empire. Russian Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Capital: St. Petersburg (1703–1917).
  • saint-ulmo-light — St. Elmo's fire.
  • santiago de cuba — a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
  • sawn-off shotgun — A sawn-off shotgun is a shotgun on which the barrel has been cut short. Guns like this are often used by criminals because they can be easily hidden.
  • saxo grammaticus — c1150–1206? Danish historian and poet.
  • scarborough lily — a plant, Vallota speciosa, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having clusters of funnel-shaped, scarlet flowers.
  • schaumburg-lippe — a former state in NW Germany.
  • sculpture garden — a garden that showcases sculptures in landscaped surroundings
  • sebaceous glands — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
  • security manager — The security manager of a store is the person responsible for organizing all security in the store and to whom security guards report.
  • self-liquidating — capable of being sold and converted into cash within a short period of time or before the date on which the supplier must be paid.
  • self-lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • self-subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • self-vulcanizing — to treat (rubber) with sulfur and heat, thereby imparting strength, greater elasticity, durability, etc.
  • semiagricultural — partly engaged in or given over to agriculture
  • sevruga (caviar) — caviar prepared from the small, grayish or black roe of a sturgeon chiefly from the Caspian Sea
  • shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • shugart, alan f. — Alan F. Shugart
  • single occupancy — a type of travel accommodation, as at a hotel, for one person in a room.
  • sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
  • slugging average — a measure of the effectiveness of a batter in making base hits, obtained by dividing the total bases reached by hitting by the number of official times at bat and carrying out the result to three decimal places. A batter making 275 total bases in 500 times at bat has a slugging average of .550.
  • smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
  • soft brown sugar — a type of moist sugar made by coating white sugar with dark molasses
  • sounding balloon — a balloon carrying instruments aloft to make atmospheric measurements, especially a radiosonde balloon.
  • sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
  • spaghetti squash — a variety of a widely cultivated squash, Cucurbita pepo, having edible flesh in the form of spaghettilike strands.
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