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15-letter words containing g, u, s, t

  • right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
  • rigil kentaurus — Astronomy. Alpha Centauri.
  • robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
  • rogation sunday — the fifth Sunday after Easter; it sees the start of the supplications that are continued during the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
  • rouget de lisle — Claude Joseph [klohd zhaw-zef] /kloʊd ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1760–1836, French army officer and composer of songs: wrote and composed Marseillaise.
  • sagittal suture — a serrated line on the top of the skull that marks the junction of the two parietal bones
  • saint augustine — Saint, a.d. 354–430, one of the Latin fathers in the early Christian Church; author; bishop of Hippo in N Africa.
  • santa gertrudis — one of an American breed of beef cattle, developed from Shorthorn and Brahman stock for endurance to torrid temperatures.
  • sausage turning — turning of members to resemble a continuous row of sausages flattened at the ends.
  • savings account — a bank account on which interest is paid, traditionally one for which a bankbook is used to record deposits, withdrawals, and interest payments.
  • scaling circuit — an electronic device or circuit that aggregates electric pulses and gives a single output pulse for a predetermined number of input pulses
  • school-gate mum — a young family-oriented working mother, considered by political parties as forming a significant part of the electorate
  • second thoughts — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
  • secundogeniture — the state of being the second born child
  • self-justifying — offering excuses for oneself, especially in excess of normal demands.
  • self-regulating — adjusting, ruling, or governing itself without outside interference; operating or functioning without externally imposed controls or regulations: a self-regulating economy; the self-regulating market.
  • self-regulation — control by oneself or itself, as in an economy, business organization, etc., especially such control as exercised independently of governmental supervision, laws, or the like.
  • self-regulative — used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself: a self-regulative device.
  • self-regulatory — Self-regulatory systems, organizations, or activities are controlled by the people involved in them, rather than by outside organizations or rules.
  • self-subsisting — to exist; continue in existence.
  • self-suggestion — the act of suggesting.
  • self-supporting — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
  • self-sustaining — self-supporting.
  • semi-figurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
  • shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • shoulder-length — Shoulder-length hair is long enough to reach your shoulders.
  • shunting engine — switch engine.
  • single-cut file — a file with teeth in one direction only: used for filing soft material
  • sit in judgment — To sit in judgment means to decide whether or not someone is guilty of doing something wrong.
  • situs picketing — common situs picketing.
  • sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
  • smoker's tongue — Pathology. leukoplakia in the mouth caused by irritation due to smoking.
  • snapping turtle — either of two large, edible, freshwater turtles of the family Chelydridae, of North and Central America, having a large head and powerful hooked jaws, especially the common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina.
  • solution mining — removal of a soluble mineral by dissolving it and leaching it out, as in the Frasch process.
  • soul-destroying — Activities or situations that are soul-destroying make you depressed, because they are boring or because there is no hope of improvement.
  • sound-and-light — combining sound effects or music with unusual lighting displays: to promote a product with a spectacular sound-and-light presentation.
  • sounding rocket — a rocket equipped with instruments for making meteorological observations in the upper atmosphere.
  • south glamorgan — a county in SE Wales. 161 sq. mi. (416 sq. km).
  • south kingstown — a town in S central Rhode Island.
  • 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.
  • spill your guts — If someone spills their guts, they tell you everything about something secret or private.
  • 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
  • stamping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
  • star of courage — a Canadian award for bravery
  • steamed pudding — a traditional pudding containing fat, sugar, eggs, flour, and other ingredients, which is steamed
  • steering column — the shaft that connects the steering wheel to the steering gear assembly of an automotive vehicle.
  • stomping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
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