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15-letter words containing a, s, u, r, g, e

  • nuisance ground — a garbage dump.
  • obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
  • off one's guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
  • organomagnesium — pertaining to or noting an organic compound, especially an organic halide, containing magnesium linked to carbon.
  • pergamentaceous — (esp of plants) resembling parchment, whether in texture or composition
  • phosphate group — the group or radical obtained by removal of one or more hydrogen atoms from phosphoric acid.
  • plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • plastic surgery — the branch of surgery dealing with the repair or replacement of malformed, injured, or lost organs or tissues of the body, chiefly by the transplant of living tissues.
  • pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
  • programme music — music that is intended to depict or evoke a scene or idea
  • pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
  • pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
  • purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
  • quadragenarians — Plural form of quadragenarian.
  • quasi-religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
  • quasi-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
  • regulatory risk — a risk to which private companies are subject, arising from the possibility of legislation or regulations that will affect business being adopted by a government
  • revenue sharing — the system of disbursing part of federal tax revenues to state and local governments for their use.
  • rhesus negative — relating to blood not containing Rhesus antigen D
  • rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
  • rigil kentaurus — Astronomy. Alpha Centauri.
  • robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
  • rogues' gallery — a collection of portraits of criminals and suspects maintained by the police for purposes of identification.
  • rough bluegrass — a grass, Poa trivialis, native to Eurasia and naturalized in North America, where it is used in mixtures for lawns and pasturage.
  • 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
  • sagittal suture — a serrated line on the top of the skull that marks the junction of the two parietal bones
  • saguia el hamra — the N part of Western Sahara.
  • santa gertrudis — one of an American breed of beef cattle, developed from Shorthorn and Brahman stock for endurance to torrid temperatures.
  • sausage turning — turning of members to resemble a continuous row of sausages flattened at the ends.
  • scrounge around — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
  • secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.
  • securicor guard — a guard who works for Securicor
  • 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-regulative — used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself: a self-regulative device.
  • self-regulatory — Self-regulatory systems, organizations, or activities are controlled by the people involved in them, rather than by outside organizations or rules.
  • semi-figurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
  • shoulder charge — an instance of a player charging into another so that there is contact between their shoulders (permissible in some circumstances)
  • silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
  • 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.
  • source language — the language in which a text appears that is to be translated into another language. Compare target language (def 1).
  • staggered hours — a system of working in which the employees of an organization do not all arrive and leave at the same time, but have large periods of overlap
  • star of courage — a Canadian award for bravery
  • structural gene — cistron.
  • 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
  • sugarcane borer — the larva of the pyralid moth, Diatraea saccharalis, a serious pest of sugarcane, corn, rice, and sorghums.
  • 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.
  • surface grammar — grammar understood at the level of normal communication, rather than at the underlying level of 'deep' semantic and syntactic analysis
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