13-letter words containing g, a, t, u, n
- reacquainting — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
- 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.
- ruggedization — the act or process of making something rugged
- 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 start — Sports. a start, as in the hop, step, and jump or the running broad jump, in which a contestant begins moving before reaching the starting or take-off point.
- running total — a running total is a total which changes because numbers keep being added to it as something progresses
- running track — a piece of ground, usually oval-shaped, that is used for races involving athletes
- saint-gaudens — Augustus, 1848–1907, U.S. sculptor, born in Ireland.
- saurognathous — related to or resembling the Saurognathae family of birds that possess palate bones similar to those in saurians or lizards
- set at naught — to have disregard or scorn for; disdain
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- shih huang ti — 259–210 b.c, Chinese emperor c247–210 b.c. initiated the building of the Great Wall of China.
- shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
- 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
- solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
- 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.
- st. augustine — Saint, a.d. 354–430, one of the Latin fathers in the early Christian Church; author; bishop of Hippo in N Africa.
- standing jump — a jump performed from a stationary position without a run-up
- 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.
- strangulation — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
- 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
- subtriangular — almost triangular;not quite triangular
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
- 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
- tanjungkarang — a city in Indonesia, in S Sumatra on the Sunda Strait; merged with Telukbetung to form the city of Bandar Lampung
- tanjungpandan — a town on NW Billiton, in central Indonesia.
- that's enough — You say 'that's enough' to tell someone, especially a child, to stop behaving in a silly, noisy, or unpleasant way.
- tone language — a language, as Swedish, Chinese, Yoruba, or Serbo-Croatian, in which words that are otherwise phonologically identical are distinguished by having different pitches or pitch contour.
- touch-in-goal — the area at each end of the field outside of a touch-in-goal line.
- tramping club — an organization of people who walk for recreation, esp in the bush
- triangularity — pertaining to or having the form of a triangle; three-cornered.
- triangulation — a technique for establishing the distance between any two points, or the relative position of two or more points, by using such points as vertices of a triangle or series of triangles, such that each triangle has a side of known or measurable length (base or base line) that permits the size of the angles of the triangle and the length of its other two sides to be established by observations taken either upon or from the two ends of the base line.
- troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
- tseng kuo-fan — 1811–72, Chinese general and statesman.
- tubing hanger — A tubing hanger is a device which is attached to the top tubing joint and supports the tubing.
- tungsten lamp — an incandescent electric lamp in which the filament is made of tungsten.
- tungstic acid — a hydrate of tungsten trioxide, H 2 WO 4 ⋅H 2 O, used in the manufacture of tungsten-lamp filaments.
- turangawaewae — the area that is a person's home