14-letter words containing g, u, t, i, e, r
- nursing mother — a mother who is breast-feeding her baby
- nursing sister — a female nurse, sometimes of a high grade
- osmoregulation — the process by which cells and simple organisms maintain fluid and electrolyte balance with their surroundings.
- outer mongolia — a region in Asia including Inner Mongolia of China and the Mongolian People's Republic.
- outgeneralling — Present participle of outgeneral.
- outmaneuvering — Present participle of outmaneuver.
- outmanoeuvring — Present participle of outmanoeuvre.
- overregulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
- oversaturating — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
- pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
- pre-accounting — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
- printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
- priority guest — A priority guest at a hotel is a regular guest who has special rights, such as early check-in and discounts on food.
- progametangium — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
- quadrigeminate — made up of four parts
- quaker meeting — a meeting of Quakers, at which all members, except those moved to speak, remain silent.
- quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
- queuing theory — a theory that deals with providing a service on a waiting line, or queue, especially when the demand for it is irregular and describable by probability distributions, as processing phone calls arriving at a telephone exchange or collecting highway tolls from drivers at tollbooths.
- quotient group — a group, the elements of which are cosets with respect to a normal subgroup of a given group.
- reducing agent — a substance that causes another substance to undergo reduction and that is oxidized in the process.
- repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- requisitioning — the act of requiring or demanding.
- retrocomputing — /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; especially if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more "serious" designs. Perhaps the most widely distributed retrocomputing utility was the "pnch(6)" or "bcd(6)" program on V7 and other early Unix versions, which would accept up to 80 characters of text argument and display the corresponding pattern in punched card code. Other well-known retrocomputing hacks have included the programming language INTERCAL, a JCL-emulating shell for Unix, the card-punch-emulating editor named 029, and various elaborate PDP-11 hardware emulators and RT-11 OS emulators written just to keep an old, sourceless Zork binary running.
- rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
- rolling cutter — A rolling cutter is a drill bit which is often used for drilling hard rock.
- route flapping — flapping router
- rummelgumption — commonsense
- rummlegumption — common sense
- running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
- running myrtle — the periwinkle, Vinca minor.
- rutting season — a recurrent period of sexual excitement and reproductive activity in certain male ruminants, such as the deer, that corresponds to the period of oestrus in females
- sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
- security guard — a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
- self-righteous — confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others.
- septuagenarian — of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.
- signature loan — a loan requiring no collateral.
- signature tune — theme song (def 2).
- silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
- south georgian — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
- spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
- splinter group — a small organization that becomes separated from or acts apart from an original larger group or a number of other small groups, with which it would normally be united, as because of disagreement.
- sporting house — Older Use. a brothel.
- sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
- stigmatiferous — (of a plant) having a stigma
- straighten out — make straighter
- strike through — cross out
- string quartet — a musical composition, usually in three or four movements, for four stringed instruments, typically two violins, viola, and cello.
- sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
- subaggregation — a subtotalling
- sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus