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15-letter words containing i, g, n, a, t, u

  • 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
  • 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-sustaining — self-supporting.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • sound-and-light — combining sound effects or music with unusual lighting displays: to promote a product with a spectacular sound-and-light presentation.
  • stamping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
  • steamed pudding — a traditional pudding containing fat, sugar, eggs, flour, and other ingredients, which is steamed
  • 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
  • suborganization — an organization within a larger organization
  • sulfiting agent — sulfite (def 2).
  • 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.
  • talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
  • target audience — the target audience of a programme is the group of people that the programme-makers are trying to persuade to watch or listen to it
  • tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
  • thought reading — mind reading.
  • tissue-matching — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
  • toucan crossing — a place where people who are walking and cyclists can both cross a busy road together. They press a button at the side of the road, which operates traffic lights to stop the traffic
  • trading account — an account similar to a traditional bank account, holding cash and securities, and administered by an investment dealer
  • training course — practical programme of study
  • training ground — an area where people prepare for sporting competitions, with activities primarily concentrating on skills and fitness
  • training manual — instructional book
  • transfiguration — the act of transfiguring.
  • treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
  • tumbling barrel — a rotating drum for subjecting materials or small manufactured objects, loosely placed inside, to a tumbling action, as to mix materials or to polish objects by friction with one another or with an abrasive.
  • tungsten rating — a film-speed rating that indicates the relative sensitivity of a particular film stock to light from incandescent lamps with tungsten filaments.
  • ultracentrifuge — a high-speed centrifuge for subjecting sols or solutions to forces many times that of gravity and producing concentration differences depending on the weight of the micelle or molecule.
  • unaccommodating — easy to deal with; eager to help or please; obliging.
  • uncategorizable — not able to be categorized or placed into a category
  • uncommunicating — to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • understandingly — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • undisappointing — not disappointing
  • ungentlemanlike — unlike a gentleman
  • ungrammatically — in an ungrammatical manner
  • union catalogue — a catalogue listing every publication held at cooperating libraries
  • universal stage — a small theodolite mounted on the stage of a polarizing microscope and used in the petrographic analysis of rocks.
  • unmanageability — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
  • unmitigatedness — the state of being unmitigated
  • unscintillating — animated; vivacious; effervescent: a scintillating personality.
  • untransmigrated — not transmigrated; not transferred or caused to be transferred
  • upper arlington — a city in central Ohio, near Columbus.
  • urban migration — the process of people moving from rural areas to cities
  • vulgar fraction — common fraction.
  • wallace nuttingWallace, 1861–1941, U.S. antiquary, author, and illustrator.
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