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15-letter words containing i, g, u, a, s

  • plastic surgery — the branch of surgery dealing with the repair or replacement of malformed, injured, or lost organs or tissues of the body, chiefly by the transplant of living tissues.
  • pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • programme music — music that is intended to depict or evoke a scene or idea
  • pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
  • public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
  • quadragenarians — Plural form of quadragenarian.
  • quasi-religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
  • quasi-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
  • queen's highway — king's highway.
  • regulatory risk — a risk to which private companies are subject, arising from the possibility of legislation or regulations that will affect business being adopted by a government
  • revenue sharing — the system of disbursing part of federal tax revenues to state and local governments for their use.
  • rhesus negative — relating to blood not containing Rhesus antigen D
  • rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
  • right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
  • rigil kentaurus — Astronomy. Alpha Centauri.
  • robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
  • rogation sunday — the fifth Sunday after Easter; it sees the start of the supplications that are continued during the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
  • running repairs — repairs, as to a machine or vehicle, that are minor and can be made with little or no interruption in the use of the item
  • rural sociology — the sociological study of life in rural areas and the effects of ruralization.
  • sagittal suture — a serrated line on the top of the skull that marks the junction of the two parietal bones
  • saguia el hamra — the N part of Western Sahara.
  • saint augustine — Saint, a.d. 354–430, one of the Latin fathers in the early Christian Church; author; bishop of Hippo in N Africa.
  • santa gertrudis — one of an American breed of beef cattle, developed from Shorthorn and Brahman stock for endurance to torrid temperatures.
  • sausage machine — a machine for making sausages
  • sausage turning — turning of members to resemble a continuous row of sausages flattened at the ends.
  • sauvignon blanc — a white grape grown primarily in France and California.
  • 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.
  • saviour sibling — a child conceived through IVF and screened for compatibility with a terminally or seriously ill sibling in order to provide organ or cell donations as a form of treatment
  • scaling circuit — an electronic device or circuit that aggregates electric pulses and gives a single output pulse for a predetermined number of input pulses
  • securicor guard — a guard who works for Securicor
  • 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-regulative — used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself: a self-regulative device.
  • self-sustaining — self-supporting.
  • semi-figurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
  • silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
  • sinkiang uighur — an autonomous region in NW China, bordering Tibet, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Tadzhikistan, Pakistan, and India: formerly a province. 635,830 sq. mi. (1,646,800 sq. km). Capital: Ürümqi.
  • 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 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.
  • spawning ground — a place where fish deposit their eggs for fertilization
  • stamping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
  • steamed pudding — a traditional pudding containing fat, sugar, eggs, flour, and other ingredients, which is steamed
  • sub-machine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • 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
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