13-letter words containing g, u, r, a
- rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
- rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
- rotary plough — an implement with a series of blades mounted on a power-driven shaft, used to break up soil or weeds
- rough as bags — uncouth
- rough diamond — gemstone: uncut diamond
- rough passage — a stormy sea journey
- rubberbanding — (in online video games) the backward popping of characters in motion to their recently occupied spaces that results from high latency in the network connection.
- ruggedization — the act or process of making something rugged
- run sb ragged — If someone runs you ragged, they make you do so much that you become exhausted.
- 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 belay — the clipping of the rope through a karabiner attached to a sling, piton, nut, etc, secured to the mountain: used by a leading climber of a team to reduce the length of a possible fall
- running board — a small ledge, step, or footboard, formerly beneath the doors of an automobile, to assist passengers entering or leaving the car.
- 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
- sales figures — the amount of sales of something within a particular time frame
- sargassumfish — an olive-brown and black frogfish, Histrio histrio, inhabiting tropical Atlantic and western Pacific seas among floating sargassum weed.
- saurognathous — related to or resembling the Saurognathae family of birds that possess palate bones similar to those in saurians or lizards
- shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
- shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
- singular noun — A singular noun is a noun such as 'standstill' or 'vicinity' that does not have a plural form and always has a determiner such as 'a' or 'the' in front of it.
- slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
- sound ranging — a method for determining the distance between a point and the position of a sound source by measuring the time lapse between the origin of the sound and its arrival at the point.
- south georgia — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
- sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- sub-aggregate — formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined: the aggregate amount of indebtedness.
- subastringent — slightly astringent.
- subcategorize — to split into subcategories
- subgeneration — a generation within another generation
- subtriangular — almost triangular;not quite triangular
- sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
- sugar of lead — lead acetate.
- sugar of milk — lactose.
- sugar orchard — sugarbush (def 2).