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14-letter words containing g, e, n, i, u

  • running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
  • running myrtle — the periwinkle, Vinca minor.
  • rutting season — a recurrent period of sexual excitement and reproductive activity in certain male ruminants, such as the deer, that corresponds to the period of oestrus in females
  • sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • self-actuating — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
  • self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
  • self-executing — going into effect immediately without the need of supplementary legislation: a self-executing treaty.
  • self-indulgent — indulging one's own desires, passions, whims, etc., especially without restraint.
  • semiconducting — of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a semiconductor.
  • septuagenarian — of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.
  • serum globulin — the blood serum component consisting of proteins with a larger molecular weight than serum albumin
  • shutting stile — the stile of a door or shutter that closes against the frame of the opening.
  • signature loan — a loan requiring no collateral.
  • signature tune — theme song (def 2).
  • silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
  • single honours — a British university degree course that involves study in a single area
  • single premium — a single payment that covers the entire cost of an insurance policy.
  • something's up — something is amiss
  • soul-searching — the act or process of close and penetrating analysis of oneself, to determine one's true motives and sentiments.
  • sound engineer — A sound engineer is a person who works in a recording studio or for a radio or television company, and whose job it is to alter and balance the levels of different sounds as they are recorded.
  • south georgian — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
  • spanish guinea — a republic in W equatorial Africa, comprising the mainland province of Río Muni and the island province of Bioko: formerly a Spanish colony. 10,824 sq. mi. (28,034 sq. km). Capital: Malabo.
  • spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
  • splinter group — a small organization that becomes separated from or acts apart from an original larger group or a number of other small groups, with which it would normally be united, as because of disagreement.
  • sponge pudding — a light steamed or baked pudding, spongy in texture, made with various flavourings or fruit
  • sporting house — Older Use. a brothel.
  • sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
  • spring equinox — the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator, making night and day of approximately equal length all over the earth and occurring about March 21 (vernal equinox or spring equinox) and September 22 (autumnal equinox)
  • square-bashing — drill on a barrack square
  • square-dancing — the activity of taking part in a square dance
  • stage business — business (def 10).
  • straighten out — make straighter
  • string quartet — a musical composition, usually in three or four movements, for four stringed instruments, typically two violins, viola, and cello.
  • sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
  • styling mousse — a light foamy substance applied to the hair before styling in order to retain the shape of the style
  • subaggregation — a subtotalling
  • subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
  • submachine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • sucking diesel — doing very well; successful
  • sugar refinery — place where sugar is processed
  • suggestion box — receptacle for customers' comments
  • suggestiveness — that suggests; referring to other thoughts, persons, etc.: His recommendation was suggestive of his boss's thinking.
  • summer pudding — a pudding made by filling a bread-lined basin with a purée of fruit, leaving it to soak, and then turning it out
  • summit meeting — a meeting or conference of heads of state, especially to conduct diplomatic negotiations and ease international tensions.
  • sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
  • supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
  • surpassingness — the fact of surpassing
  • take soundings — to try to find out people's opinions on a subject
  • tanen taunggyi — a mountain range in NW Thailand and SE Burma, rising to a height of 7000 feet (2134 meters).
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