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13-letter words containing a, u, g, e, n

  • quarter grain — the grain appearing in quartersawed wood.
  • queen dowager — the widow of a king.
  • queen regnant — a queen who reigns on her own behalf
  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • quindecagonal — (geometry) Shaped like a quindecagon; fifteen-sided.
  • quinquagenary — a 50th anniversary.
  • quinquagesima — the Sunday before Lent; Shrove Sunday.
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • re-evaluating — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
  • re-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • reacquainting — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
  • reading group — a group of people who meet regularly to discuss a book that they have all read
  • regiomontanus — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
  • regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.
  • regurgitation — the act of regurgitating.
  • revenue agent — a government official who is responsible for the collection of revenue.
  • revictualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
  • rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
  • rubberbanding — (in online video games) the backward popping of characters in motion to their recently occupied spaces that results from high latency in the network connection.
  • ruggedization — the act or process of making something rugged
  • run sb ragged — If someone runs you ragged, they make you do so much that you become exhausted.
  • run the gamut — The gamut of something is the complete range of things of that kind, or a wide variety of things of that kind.
  • running belay — the clipping of the rope through a karabiner attached to a sling, piton, nut, etc, secured to the mountain: used by a leading climber of a team to reduce the length of a possible fall
  • saint-gaudens — Augustus, 1848–1907, U.S. sculptor, born in Ireland.
  • saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
  • scavenge pump — an oil pump used in some internal-combustion engines to return oil from the crankcase to the oil tank
  • self-assuming — taking too much for granted; presumptuous.
  • set at naught — to have disregard or scorn for; disdain
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • sign language — Also called sign. any of several visual-gestural systems of communication, especially employing manual gestures, as used among deaf people.
  • single status — a national agreement that aims to avoid unfairness in pay and reward arrangements for employees and to ensure harmonisation of conditions in comparable posts
  • single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
  • skunk cabbage — a low, fetid, broad-leaved North American plant, Symplocarpus foetidus, of the arum family, having a brownish-purple and green mottled spathe surrounding a stout spadix, growing in moist ground.
  • solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
  • sounding lead — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
  • speaking tube — a tube for conveying the voice over a somewhat limited distance, as from one part of a building or ship to another.
  • spermatangium — the organ that produces spermatia in red algae.
  • spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
  • squanderingly — in a squandering manner
  • st. augustine — Saint, a.d. 354–430, one of the Latin fathers in the early Christian Church; author; bishop of Hippo in N Africa.
  • steganopodous — belonging to the Stegandopodes or having all four toes webbed together
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • strange quark — a quark having electric charge −1/3 times the elementary charge and strangeness −1; it is more massive than the up and down quarks.
  • student grant — a grant of money awarded to somebody to fund their studying at a university or college
  • subastringent — slightly astringent.
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • subgeneration — a generation within another generation
  • sunken garden — a formal garden set below the main level of the ground surrounding it.
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
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