13-letter words containing e, r, u, g
- sponge rubber — a light, spongy rubber, usually prepared by bubbling carbon dioxide through or whipping air into latex, used for padding, insulation, gaskets, etc.; foam rubber.
- spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
- 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.
- spruce grouse — a grouse, Canachites canadensis, of coniferous forests of northern North America, that feeds on evergreen buds and needles.
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- spurge laurel — a European thymelaeaceous evergreen shrub, Daphne laureola, with glossy leaves and small green flowers
- squanderingly — in a squandering manner
- square-rigged — having square sails as the principal sails.
- square-rigger — having square sails as the principal sails.
- squirrel cage — a cage containing a cylindrical framework that is rotated by a squirrel or other small animal running inside of it.
- sterculia gum — karaya gum.
- stereoregular — pertaining to stereochemical regularity or having repeating units in a sequential configuration
- 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.
- string course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- string-puller — a person who uses his or her influence with other people to get things done, often unfairly
- student grant — a grant of money awarded to somebody to fund their studying at a university or college
- sub-aggregate — formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined: the aggregate amount of indebtedness.
- sub-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- subastringent — slightly astringent.
- subcategorize — to split into subcategories
- subgeneration — a generation within another generation
- subgovernment — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- sugar of lead — lead acetate.
- sunken garden — a formal garden set below the main level of the ground surrounding it.
- superdelegate — a party leader or elected public official chosen as an uncommitted delegate to a national political convention.
- supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
- supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
- superorganism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- superregional — involving many regions
- superstrength — great strength
- supersurgeons — highly skilled surgeon
- supreme being — God.
- surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
- surgery hours — the period of time each day when a doctor's surgery or office is open
- sweet sorghum — sorgo.
- table-turning — the movement of a table attributed by spiritualists to the power of spirits working through a group of persons placing their hands or fingers on the table top
- teeing ground — tee2 (def 1a).
- texas leaguer — a pop fly that falls safely between converging infielders and outfielders.
- thoroughbrace — either of two strong leather straps upon which the body of certain types of carriage is supported
- thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
- through stone — perpend1 .
- through-other — confused.
- to the ground — completely; absolutely
- trade figures — a record of how much a country has paid for goods which it has bought from other countries, compared with how much it has been paid for goods which it has sold to other countries
- tribune group — (in Britain) a group made up of left-wing Labour Members of Parliament: founded 1966
- trigger guard — safety feature on a gun
- triple figure — a number made up of three digits.
- triple-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and t and k successively, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
- troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.