15-letter words containing g, e, r, o, u
- 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.
- 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.
- sugarcane borer — the larva of the pyralid moth, Diatraea saccharalis, a serious pest of sugarcane, corn, rice, and sorghums.
- supergovernment — a centralized organization formed by a group of governments to enforce justice or maintain peace.
- supporting role — acting: secondary part
- suppressor grid — an electrode placed between the screen grid and anode of a valve. Its negative potential, relative to both screen and anode, prevents secondary electrons from the anode reaching the screen
- surge protector — a small device to protect a computer, telephone, television set, or the like from damage by high-voltage electrical surges.
- surgeon general — the chief of medical services in one of the armed forces.
- symmetric group — the group of all permutations of a finite set.
- synectics group — a group of people of varied background that meets to attempt creative solutions of problems through the unrestricted exercise of imagination and the correlation of disparate elements.
- tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
- the high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority in a dispute
- the underground — an electric passenger railway operated in underground tunnels
- thought pattern — habitual way of thinking
- thought process — thinking, train of thought
- thought reading — mind reading.
- to good purpose — with a good result or effect; advantageously
- training course — practical programme of study
- transfer lounge — the place in an airport where you wait for a transfer from one flight to another
- troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- turbojet engine — a jet-propulsion engine in which air from the atmosphere is compressed for combustion by a turbine-driven compressor.
- turgor pressure — the pressure exerted on a plant cell wall by water passing into the cell by osmosis
- turquoise green — a light bluish green.
- ultra-religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- uncategorizable — not able to be categorized or placed into a category
- unchoreographed — not choreographed; not pre-arranged or pre-prepared; unplanned
- uncomprehending — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- uncorresponding — identical in all essentials or respects: corresponding fingerprints.
- unforgivingness — not disposed to forgive or show mercy; unrelenting.
- unprepossessing — that impresses favorably; engaging or attractive: a confident and prepossessing young man.
- unprogressively — in an unprogressive manner
- unrighteousness — not righteous; not upright or virtuous; wicked; sinful; evil: an unrighteous king.
- upper arlington — a city in central Ohio, near Columbus.
- ust-kamenogorsk — a city in E Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
- viper's bugloss — the blueweed.
- virtual storage — a system whereby addressable memory is extended beyond main storage through the use of secondary storage managed by system software in such a way that programs can treat all of the designated storage as addressable main storage.
- völkerwanderung — the migration of peoples, esp of Germanic and Slavic peoples into S and W Europe from 2nd to 11th centuries
- weather through — to pass or go safely through a storm, peril, difficulty, etc.
- well-brought-up — If you say that someone, especially a child, is well-brought-up, you mean that they are very polite because they have been taught good manners.
- winesburg, ohio — a cycle of short stories (1919) by Sherwood Anderson.