14-letter words containing g, u, s, i
- subcontracting — outsourcing of contract work
- 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 diabetes — diabetes mellitus
- sugar refinery — place where sugar is processed
- sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
- suggestibility — subject to or easily influenced by suggestion.
- suggestion box — receptacle for customers' comments
- suggestiveness — that suggests; referring to other thoughts, persons, etc.: His recommendation was suggestive of his boss's thinking.
- sulfinyl group — the bivalent group >SO.
- sulphur spring — a natural hot spring containing sulphur, believed to have curative properties
- 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 morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
- sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
- sunday trading — the fact of opening a shop or business on a Sunday
- supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
- supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
- supplicatingly — in a pleading manner
- support buying — buying carried out to support an exchange rate
- surgical shock — a state of shock that can occur during or after surgery
- surpassingness — the fact of surpassing
- survivor guilt — feelings of guilt for having survived a catastrophe in which others died.
- take soundings — to try to find out people's opinions on a subject
- testing ground — place where sth is tested
- the game is up — If you say the game is up, you mean that someone's secret plans or activities have been revealed and therefore must stop because they cannot succeed.
- thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
- thunder thighs — thick-set upper legs
- tiger mosquito — a large Asian mosquito, Aedes albopictus, introduced into the southern U.S., that is a vector of dengue and other infectious diseases.
- time signature — a numerical or other indication at the beginning of a piece showing the meter.
- time-consuming — (of an action) requiring or wasting much time.
- to be bursting — to want desperately to urinate
- tongue twister — a word or sequence of words difficult to pronounce, especially rapidly, because of alliteration or a slight variation of consonant sounds, as “She sells seashells by the seashore.”.
- tongue-lashing — severe scolding
- tongue-twister — A tongue-twister is a sentence or expression which is very difficult to say properly, especially when you try to say it quickly. An example of a tongue-twister is 'Red leather, yellow leather'.
- transit lounge — a waiting room at an international airport used mainly by passengers transferring from one flight to another without presenting themselves to customs or immigration officials
- traumatologist — a branch of surgery dealing with major wounds caused by accidents or violence.
- tsugaru strait — a strait between the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido, N Japan, connecting the Sea of Japan with the Pacific Ocean. 100 miles (160 km) long and 15–25 miles (24–40 km) wide.
- tunguska basin — large coal basin in central Siberia, between the Yenisei & Lena rivers: it is drained by three rivers, the Lower Tunguska, Stony Tunguska, & Upper Tunguska (usually called the Angara River), which flow west into the Yenisei
- turkish angora — a long-haired breed of cat, similar to the Persian
- turning chisel — a chisel used for shaping work on a lathe.
- twilight hours — the period in which there occurs soft diffused light due to the sun being just below the horizon, esp following sunset
- ultra-rightism — the beliefs of extremely right-wing political parties or groups
- ultra-rightist — a person with extremely right-wing political views
- un-distracting — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- unaspiringness — the quality of being unaspiring or unambitious
- unavailingness — the state or quality of being unavailing or useless
- unchangingness — the quality or state of not changing
- uncompromising — not admitting of compromise or adjustment of differences; making no concessions; inaccessible to flexible bargaining; unyielding: an uncompromising attitude.