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15-letter words containing a, n, g, u, i, e

  • rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
  • rigil kentaurus — Astronomy. Alpha Centauri.
  • rough breathing — the symbol (ʿ) used in the writing of Greek to indicate aspiration of the initial vowel or of the ρ (rho) over which it is placed.
  • routeing domain — (networking)   (US "routing") A set of routers that exchange routeing information within an administrative domain.
  • running repairs — repairs, as to a machine or vehicle, that are minor and can be made with little or no interruption in the use of the item
  • saint augustine — Saint, a.d. 354–430, one of the Latin fathers in the early Christian Church; author; bishop of Hippo in N Africa.
  • santa gertrudis — one of an American breed of beef cattle, developed from Shorthorn and Brahman stock for endurance to torrid temperatures.
  • sausage machine — a machine for making sausages
  • sausage turning — turning of members to resemble a continuous row of sausages flattened at the ends.
  • self-regulating — adjusting, ruling, or governing itself without outside interference; operating or functioning without externally imposed controls or regulations: a self-regulating economy; the self-regulating market.
  • self-regulation — control by oneself or itself, as in an economy, business organization, etc., especially such control as exercised independently of governmental supervision, laws, or the like.
  • self-sustaining — self-supporting.
  • silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
  • sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
  • snapping turtle — either of two large, edible, freshwater turtles of the family Chelydridae, of North and Central America, having a large head and powerful hooked jaws, especially the common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina.
  • sound deadening — a process or material that reduces the resonance or volume of sound
  • steamed pudding — a traditional pudding containing fat, sugar, eggs, flour, and other ingredients, which is steamed
  • sub-machine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • subject-raising — a rule that moves the subject of a complement clause into the clause in which it is embedded, as in the derivation of He is likely to be late from It is likely that he will be late
  • subminimum wage — See example at subminimum (def 1).
  • sulfiting agent — sulfite (def 2).
  • summer triangle — a group of three first-magnitude stars (Deneb, Vega, and Altair) visible during the summer in the N skies
  • supergiant star — Astronomy. an exceptionally luminous star whose diameter is more than 100 times that of the sun, as Betelgeuse or Antares.
  • surgical needle — a needle for suturing.
  • talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
  • target audience — the target audience of a programme is the group of people that the programme-makers are trying to persuade to watch or listen to it
  • tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
  • thought reading — mind reading.
  • tissue-matching — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
  • training course — practical programme of study
  • treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
  • tumbling barrel — a rotating drum for subjecting materials or small manufactured objects, loosely placed inside, to a tumbling action, as to mix materials or to polish objects by friction with one another or with an abrasive.
  • tungsten rating — a film-speed rating that indicates the relative sensitivity of a particular film stock to light from incandescent lamps with tungsten filaments.
  • ultracentrifuge — a high-speed centrifuge for subjecting sols or solutions to forces many times that of gravity and producing concentration differences depending on the weight of the micelle or molecule.
  • uncategorizable — not able to be categorized or placed into a category
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • understandingly — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • ungentlemanlike — unlike a gentleman
  • union catalogue — a catalogue listing every publication held at cooperating libraries
  • universal stage — a small theodolite mounted on the stage of a polarizing microscope and used in the petrographic analysis of rocks.
  • unmanageability — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
  • unmitigatedness — the state of being unmitigated
  • untransmigrated — not transmigrated; not transferred or caused to be transferred
  • upper arlington — a city in central Ohio, near Columbus.
  • uranium-bearing — containing or producing uranium
  • urban guerrilla — a member of any underground political group engaged in terrorism or violence in urban areas, especially during the 1970s.
  • van diemen gulf — an inlet of the Timor Sea in N Australia, in the Northern Territory
  • walking wounded — casualties, as of a military conflict, who are wounded but ambulatory.
  • wallace nutting — Wallace, 1861–1941, U.S. antiquary, author, and illustrator.
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