15-letter words containing g, u, s
- 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 deadening — a process or material that reduces the resonance or volume of sound
- 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.
- source language — the language in which a text appears that is to be translated into another language. Compare target language (def 1).
- 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.
- spawning ground — a place where fish deposit their eggs for fertilization
- 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.
- structural gene — cistron.
- stumbling block — an obstacle or hindrance to progress, belief, or understanding.
- sturm und drang — a style or movement of German literature of the latter half of the 18th century: characterized chiefly by impetuosity of manner, exaltation of individual sensibility and intuitive perception, opposition to established forms of society and thought, and extreme nationalism.
- sub-machine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
- subintelligence — below average intelligence
- subject catalog — a catalog having entries listed by subject only.
- subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
- subject-raising — a rule that moves the subject of a complement clause into the clause in which it is embedded, as in the derivation of He is likely to be late from It is likely that he will be late
- subminimum wage — See example at subminimum (def 1).
- suborganization — an organization within a larger organization
- sugarcane borer — the larva of the pyralid moth, Diatraea saccharalis, a serious pest of sugarcane, corn, rice, and sorghums.
- suicide bombing — a terrorist bomb attack in which the perpetrator knows that he or she will be killed in the explosion
- sulfiting agent — sulfite (def 2).
- sulphur springs — a town in NE Texas.
- summer triangle — a group of three first-magnitude stars (Deneb, Vega, and Altair) visible during the summer in the N skies
- supergiant star — Astronomy. an exceptionally luminous star whose diameter is more than 100 times that of the sun, as Betelgeuse or Antares.
- supergovernment — a centralized organization formed by a group of governments to enforce justice or maintain peace.
- supporting film — a film that accompanies the main feature film in a film programme
- 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
- surface grammar — grammar understood at the level of normal communication, rather than at the underlying level of 'deep' semantic and syntactic analysis
- 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.
- surgical needle — a needle for suturing.
- surgical spirit — Surgical spirit is a liquid which is used to clean wounds or surgical instruments. It consists mainly of alcohol.
- surgical strike — a military action designed to destroy a particular target without harming other people or damaging other buildings near it
- svedberg (unit) — a unit of time, equal to 10-13 second, used in determining the rate of sedimentation of a macromolecule in an ultracentrifuge
- swimming trunks — men's swimsuit shorts
- 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.