14-letter words containing g, u, t
- quota sampling — a method of conducting market research in which the sample is selected according to a quota-system based on such factors as age, sex, social class, etc
- quotient group — a group, the elements of which are cosets with respect to a normal subgroup of a given group.
- radioautograph — autoradiograph.
- rattle through — If you rattle through something, you deal with it quickly in order to finish it.
- reducing agent — a substance that causes another substance to undergo reduction and that is oxidized in the process.
- refugee status — the state of being a person who has fled from some danger or problem, esp political persecution, esp in a foreign country in the eyes of the law
- regulator gene — any gene that exercises control over the expression of another gene or genes.
- 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.
- ribbon-cutting — a ceremony marking the official opening of a site, the commencement of its construction, etc., typically involving the cutting of a ribbon suspended as across an entrance
- roentgenopaque — not permitting the passage of x-rays.
- rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
- rolling cutter — A rolling cutter is a drill bit which is often used for drilling hard rock.
- rotten borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough that had very few voters yet was represented in Parliament.
- route flapping — flapping router
- routing policy — (networking) Rules implemented on a router or other network device to select routes from peers, customers, and upstream providers; select and modify routes you send to peers, customers and upstream providers and identify routes within your own Autonomous System.
- rummelgumption — commonsense
- rummlegumption — common sense
- run out of gas — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- run up against — If you run up against problems, you suddenly begin to experience them.
- running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
- running lights — the lights that a ship or aircraft traveling at night is required to display
- running myrtle — the periwinkle, Vinca minor.
- running stitch — a sewing stitch made by passing the needle in and out repeatedly with short, even stitches.
- 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
- sanguification — hematopoiesis.
- saratoga trunk — a type of large traveling trunk used mainly by women during the 19th century.
- sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
- saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
- scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
- schizognathous — (of birds) having a separation in the vomer and maxillo-palatine bones, having a cleft-palate
- scrape through — only just succeed
- scrutinizingly — in a scrutinizing manner
- second thought — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
- security guard — a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
- self-actuating — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
- self-executing — going into effect immediately without the need of supplementary legislation: a self-executing treaty.
- self-forgetful — forgetful or not thinking of one's own advantage, interest, etc.
- self-indulgent — indulging one's own desires, passions, whims, etc., especially without restraint.
- self-regulated — governed or controlled from within; self-regulating.
- self-righteous — confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others.
- self-slaughter — suicide.
- semiconducting — of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a semiconductor.
- septuagenarian — of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.
- shooting guard — the player responsible for attempting long-range shots
- shouting match — a loud, often abusive quarrel or argument.
- shutting stile — the stile of a door or shutter that closes against the frame of the opening.