13-letter words containing n, o, u, g
- queen dowager — the widow of a king.
- queer-looking — odd or strange in appearance
- questioningly — In a questioning manner.
- quindecagonal — (geometry) Shaped like a quindecagon; fifteen-sided.
- quota-hopping — (in the EU) the practice of obtaining the right to catch a part of a country's national quota for fish in European waters by buying licences from its fishermen
- rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
- raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
- re-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
- reading group — a group of people who meet regularly to discuss a book that they have all read
- reconfiguring — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- regiomontanus — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
- regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.
- regurgitation — the act of regurgitating.
- religiousness — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- rendezvousing — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
- ring compound — a compound whose structural formula contains a closed chain or ring of atoms; a cyclic compound. Compare cyclic (def 3).
- rock hounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks, fossils, or minerals.
- rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
- rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
- rouge et noir — a gambling game using cards, played at a table marked with two red and two black diamond-shaped spots on which the players place their stakes.
- rough diamond — gemstone: uncut diamond
- roughing mill — a rolling mill for converting steel ingots into blooms, billets, or slabs.
- round herring — any of several herringlike fishes of the family Dussumieriidae having a rounded abdomen, living chiefly in tropical marine waters.
- roundtripping — a form of trading in which a company borrows a sum of money from one source and takes advantage of a short-term rise in interest rates to make a profit by lending it to another
- ruggedization — the act or process of making something rugged
- rumelgumption — commonsense
- rumlegumption — commonsense
- rumour-monger — If you call someone a rumour-monger, you disapprove of the fact that they spread rumours.
- running board — a small ledge, step, or footboard, formerly beneath the doors of an automobile, to assist passengers entering or leaving the car.
- running costs — The running costs of a business are the amount of money that is regularly spent on things such as salaries, heating, lighting, and rent.
- running order — The running order of the items in a broadcast, concert, or show is the order in which the items will come.
- running story — a story continued in subsequent issues of a newspaper or magazine; serial.
- running total — a running total is a total which changes because numbers keep being added to it as something progresses
- saurognathous — related to or resembling the Saurognathae family of birds that possess palate bones similar to those in saurians or lizards
- school outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
- scoping study — a preliminary study to define the scope of a project
- scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
- self-doubting — lacking in confidence
- serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
- single-tongue — to play (any nonlegato passage) on a wind instrument by obstructing and uncovering the air passage through the lips with the tongue
- singular noun — A singular noun is a noun such as 'standstill' or 'vicinity' that does not have a plural form and always has a determiner such as 'a' or 'the' in front of it.
- skeletogenous — forming a skeleton, or parts of one
- solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
- solomon gundy — a dish of salted marinated herring in vinegar and spices
- soul-stirring — arousing excitement and enthusiasm; uplifting
- sound ranging — a method for determining the distance between a point and the position of a sound source by measuring the time lapse between the origin of the sound and its arrival at the point.
- sounding lead — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.