14-letter words containing n, a, g, u, r, s
- nassau grouper — a colorful food and game fish, Epinephelus striatus, common off the Florida Keys.
- natural rights — any right that exists by virtue of natural law.
- non-gratuitous — given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary.
- non-gregarious — fond of the company of others; sociable.
- on one's guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- osmoregulation — the process by which cells and simple organisms maintain fluid and electrolyte balance with their surroundings.
- outer garments — the garments that are worn over a person's other clothes
- outrageousness — of the nature of or involving gross injury or wrong: an outrageous slander.
- oversaturating — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
- panther fungus — a highly poisonous mushroom, Amanita pantherina, with a brownish cap covered with white cottony patches.
- paralinguistic — of or relating to paralanguage or paralinguistics.
- popular singer — a professional singer who specializes in popular songs.
- postgraduation — designating or occurring in the period after graduation
- pruning shears — small, sturdy shears used for pruning shrubbery.
- pseudopregnant — relating to the state of pseudopregnancy
- pulsating star — a type of variable star, the variation in brightness resulting from expansion and subsequent contraction of the star
- rabble-rousing — of, relating to, or characteristic of a rabble-rouser.
- racing colours — the colours painted on a racing car to represent the nation of the car or driver
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
- 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 casing — Running casing is the process of screwing together pieces of pipe on a rig floor and lowering them into a hole.
- 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
- 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.
- septuagenarian — of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.
- shooting guard — the player responsible for attempting long-range shots
- signature loan — a loan requiring no collateral.
- signature tune — theme song (def 2).
- singular point — a point at which a given function of a complex variable has no derivative but of which every neighborhood contains points at which the function has derivatives.
- soul-searching — the act or process of close and penetrating analysis of oneself, to determine one's true motives and sentiments.
- sounding board — a thin, resonant plate of wood forming part of a musical instrument, and so placed as to enhance the power and quality of the tone.
- 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).
- spanish guitar — acoustic guitar.
- spermatogenous — producing spermatozoa.
- spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
- square-bashing — drill on a barrack square
- square-dancing — the activity of taking part in a square dance
- staghorn sumac — a sumac, Rhus typhina, of eastern North America, having leaves that turn scarlet, orange, and purple in the autumn.
- standard gauge — a standard of measure or measurement.
- straighten out — make straighter
- string quartet — a musical composition, usually in three or four movements, for four stringed instruments, typically two violins, viola, and cello.
- sturgeon's law — "Ninety percent of everything is crap". Derived from a quote by science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon, who once said, "Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud." Oddly, when Sturgeon's Law is cited, the final word is almost invariably changed to "crap". Compare Ninety-Ninety Rule. Though this maxim originated in SF fandom, most hackers recognise it and are all too aware of its truth.
- 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
- subcontracting — outsourcing of contract work
- subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus