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14-letter words containing g, u, t, e, r, a

  • sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
  • summer tanager — a tanager, Piranga rubra, of the south and central U.S., the male of which is rose-red, the female olive-green above and yellow below.
  • supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
  • supererogatory — going beyond the requirements of duty.
  • suprasegmental — above, beyond, or in addition to a segment.
  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
  • the red guards — a radical political movement of civilian youths in China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution
  • thermoregulate — to maintain regular temperature, esp regular body temperature
  • thomas youngerThomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
  • thorough brace — either of two strong braces or bands of leather supporting the body of a coach or other vehicle and connecting the front and back springs.
  • thought-reader — someone who can read minds or psychically know others' thoughts
  • thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
  • time signature — a numerical or other indication at the beginning of a piece showing the meter.
  • to gather dust — If you say that something is gathering dust, you mean that it has been left somewhere and nobody is using it or doing anything with it.
  • trade language — a lingua franca, especially one used primarily for trade and conducting business.
  • 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
  • tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
  • turbogenerator — a large electrical generator driven by a steam turbine
  • turing machine — a hypothetical device with a set of logical rules of computation: the concept is used in mathematical studies of the computability of numbers and in the mathematical theories of automata and computers.
  • turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
  • ultraenergetic — (of particles) producing exceptional levels of energy
  • unappreciating — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
  • under-training — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
  • undergraduette — a female undergraduate
  • understandings — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • understrapping — subordinate or inferior
  • underthroating — (on a cornice) a cove extended outward and downward to form a drip.
  • unentertaining — not entertaining or amusing
  • unflatteringly — in an unflattering manner
  • uninterrogated — to ask questions of (a person), sometimes to seek answers or information that the person questioned considers personal or secret.
  • unrefrigerated — to make or keep cold or cool, as for preservation.
  • upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
  • upper tunguska — any of three tributaries of the Yenisei River in the central Russian Federation in Asia: the (Lower Tunguska) 2000 miles (3220 km) long; the (Upper Tunguska) or the lower course of the Angara, 1151 miles (1855 km) long; and the (Stony Tunguska) about 975 miles (1570 km) long.
  • uterogestation — gestation in the womb, i.e. normal pregnancy
  • vantage ground — a position or place that gives one an advantage, as for action, view, or defense.
  • vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
  • well-regulated — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
  • wrongful death — the death of a person wrongfully caused, as comprising the grounds of a damage suit.
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