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

  • brain surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in brain surgery
  • brain surgery — operation on the brain
  • brass rubbing — A brass rubbing is a picture made by placing a piece of paper over a brass plate that has writing or a picture on it, and rubbing it with a wax crayon.
  • brass-rubbing — an antiquarian's technique for copying designs from incised brass memorial slabs and the like.
  • brassfounding — the practice of making things from brass
  • breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
  • buccaneerings — the characteristic actions of a buccaneer
  • buck sergeant — a newly promoted sergeant
  • buffalo grass — a short grass, Buchloë dactyloides, growing on the dry plains of the central US
  • buffalo wings — spicy fried segments of chicken wings, usually served with celery sticks and a sauce of blue cheese
  • burgess shale — a bed of Cambrian sedimentary rock in the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia containing many unique invertebrate fossils
  • burglariously — in the manner of a burglar or buglary
  • burmese glass — an American art glass of the late 19th century, ranging from greenish-yellow to pink.
  • burning glass — a convex lens for concentrating the sun's rays into a small area to produce heat or fire
  • bus mastering — bus master
  • calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
  • capsule range — a small range of clothes by a particular designer, intended to be representative of the full range
  • carrickfergus — a town in E Northern Ireland, in Carrickfergus district, Co Antrim; historic settlement of Scottish Protestants on Belfast Lough; Norman castle. Pop: 27 201 (2001)
  • cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
  • cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
  • casting couch — a couch on which a casting director is said to seduce women seeking a part in a film or play
  • cellar fungus — a fungus, Coniophora puteana, that causes dry rot in timber.
  • chaise longue — A chaise longue is a kind of sofa with only one arm and usually a back along half its length.
  • chaise lounge — A chaise lounge is the same as a chaise longue.
  • changefulness — Propensity to change.
  • chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
  • circularising — Present participle of circularise.
  • circumambages — round-about methods
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
  • colleagueship — workplace companionship
  • compsognathus — any bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Compsognathus, of late Jurassic age, having a slender body that reached a length of 30 inches (76 cm).
  • congratulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of congratulate.
  • conjugateness — The quality of being conjugate.
  • consanguineal — having the same ancestry or descent; related by blood.
  • consanguinity — relationship by blood; kinship
  • coralligenous — producing coral
  • count against — If something counts against you, it may cause you to be rejected or punished, or cause people to have a lower opinion of you.
  • cousin-german — the child of one's aunt or uncle
  • crustaceology — The branch of zoology dealing with crustaceans.
  • cupping glass — a glass vessel from which air can be removed by suction or heat to create a partial vacuum: formerly used in drawing blood to the surface of the skin for slow bloodletting
  • daguerrotypes — Plural form of daguerrotype, a misspelling of daguerreotype.
  • damage survey — an inspection by an insurance company of something that has been damaged and for which an insurance claim has been made, in order to determine the extent and cause of damage
  • dangerousness — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
  • dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
  • dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
  • deuteragonist — (in ancient Greek drama) the character next in importance to the protagonist, esp the antagonist
  • disambiguated — Simple past tense and past participle of disambiguate.
  • disambiguates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disambiguate.
  • disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
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