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15-letter words containing e, g, o, s, u

  • programme music — music that is intended to depict or evoke a scene or idea
  • pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
  • pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
  • pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
  • quasi-religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
  • quasi-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
  • quite something — a remarkable or noteworthy thing or person
  • refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
  • 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
  • religious house — a convent or monastery.
  • religious order — monks: monastery
  • religious right — US right-wing Christian movement
  • 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.
  • rouget de lisle — Claude Joseph [klohd zhaw-zef] /kloʊd ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1760–1836, French army officer and composer of songs: wrote and composed Marseillaise.
  • rough bluegrass — a grass, Poa trivialis, native to Eurasia and naturalized in North America, where it is used in mixtures for lawns and pasturage.
  • sauce espagnole — brown sauce.
  • school-gate mum — a young family-oriented working mother, considered by political parties as forming a significant part of the electorate
  • scrounge around — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
  • sebaceous gland — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
  • second language — a language learned by a person after his or her native language, especially as a resident of an area where it is in general use.
  • second thoughts — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
  • secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.
  • secundogeniture — the state of being the second born child
  • securicor guard — a guard who works for Securicor
  • 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-regulatory — Self-regulatory systems, organizations, or activities are controlled by the people involved in them, rather than by outside organizations or rules.
  • self-renouncing — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
  • self-suggestion — the act of suggesting.
  • self-supporting — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
  • shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • shoulder charge — an instance of a player charging into another so that there is contact between their shoulders (permissible in some circumstances)
  • shoulder girdle — pectoral girdle (def 2).
  • shoulder-length — Shoulder-length hair is long enough to reach your shoulders.
  • sigmoid flexure — Zoology. an S -shaped curve in a body part.
  • silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
  • sleeve coupling — a cylinder joining the ends of two lengths of shafting or pipe.
  • smoker's tongue — Pathology. leukoplakia in the mouth caused by irritation due to smoking.
  • soul-destroying — Activities or situations that are soul-destroying make you depressed, because they are boring or because there is no hope of improvement.
  • sound deadening — a process or material that reduces the resonance or volume of sound
  • sounding rocket — a rocket equipped with instruments for making meteorological observations in the upper atmosphere.
  • source language — the language in which a text appears that is to be translated into another language. Compare target language (def 1).
  • southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
  • southern gothic — a literary genre depicting life in the southern US and featuring grotesque themes and imagery
  • southern lights — aurora australis.
  • squeeze through — to press forcibly together; compress.
  • 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
  • steering column — the shaft that connects the steering wheel to the steering gear assembly of an automotive vehicle.
  • subject catalog — a catalog having entries listed by subject only.
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