14-letter words containing n, u, g, a
- the blue angel — a legendary German expressionist film of 1930, the first major German sound film, starring Marlene Dietrich
- thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
- thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
- time signature — a numerical or other indication at the beginning of a piece showing the meter.
- tongue-lashing — severe scolding
- trade language — a lingua franca, especially one used primarily for trade and conducting business.
- tragacanth gum — Tragacanth gum is a gum obtained from the tragacanth plant, used as a suspending agent.
- transit lounge — a waiting room at an international airport used mainly by passengers transferring from one flight to another without presenting themselves to customs or immigration officials
- tubal ligation — a method of permanent sterilization for women, involving the surgical sealing of the fallopian tubes to prevent the ovum from passing from the ovary to the uterus.
- tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
- tunguska basin — large coal basin in central Siberia, between the Yenisei & Lena rivers: it is drained by three rivers, the Lower Tunguska, Stony Tunguska, & Upper Tunguska (usually called the Angara River), which flow west into the Yenisei
- turbogenerator — a large electrical generator driven by a steam turbine
- turing machine — a hypothetical device with a set of logical rules of computation: the concept is used in mathematical studies of the computability of numbers and in the mathematical theories of automata and computers.
- turing tar-pit — A place where anything is possible but nothing of interest is practical. Alan M. Turing helped lay the foundations of computer science by showing that all machines and languages capable of expressing a certain very primitive set of operations are logically equivalent in the kinds of computations they can carry out, and in principle have capabilities that differ only in speed from those of the most powerful and elegantly designed computers. However, no machine or language exactly matching Turing's primitive set has ever been built (other than possibly as a classroom exercise), because it would be horribly slow and far too painful to use. A "Turing tar-pit" is any computer language or other tool that shares this property. That is, it's theoretically universal but in practice, the harder you struggle to get any real work done, the deeper its inadequacies suck you in. Compare bondage-and-discipline language. A tar pit is a geological occurence where subterranean tar leaks to the surface, creating a large puddle (or pit) of tar. Animals wandering or falling in get stuck, being unable to extricate themselves from the tar. La Brea, California, has a museum built around the fossilized remains of mammals and birds found in such a tar pit.
- turkish angora — a long-haired breed of cat, similar to the Persian
- turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
- ultraenergetic — (of particles) producing exceptional levels of energy
- un-challenging — offering a challenge; testing one's ability, endurance, etc: a challenging course; a challenging game.
- un-distracting — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- un-get-at-able — very difficult to get hold of or get close to
- unacknowledged — widely recognized; generally accepted: an acknowledged authority on Chinese art.
- unappetizingly — in an unappetizing manner
- unappreciating — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- unaspiringness — the quality of being unaspiring or unambitious
- unavailingness — the state or quality of being unavailing or useless
- unchangingness — the quality or state of not changing
- uncongeniality — the condition of being uncongenial
- under-training — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- underdiagnosed — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
- undergraduette — a female undergraduate
- underleveraged — (of a business organization) having an excessively low ratio of debt capital to equity capital
- understandings — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
- understrapping — subordinate or inferior
- underthroating — (on a cornice) a cove extended outward and downward to form a drip.
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- undogmatically — in an undogmatic manner
- unegoistically — pertaining to or of the nature of egoism.
- unentertaining — not entertaining or amusing
- unequivocating — to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead; prevaricate or hedge: When asked directly for his position on disarmament, the candidate only equivocated.
- unflatteringly — in an unflattering manner
- ungracefulness — the state of being ungraceful
- ungraciousness — the state of being ungracious
- unhesitatingly — without hesitation; not delayed by uncertainty: an unhesitating decision.
- unilluminating — not serving to instruct or give insights
- uningratiating — not of a sort that tries to gain the approval of other people
- uninterrogated — to ask questions of (a person), sometimes to seek answers or information that the person questioned considers personal or secret.
- unintimidating — to make timid; fill with fear.
- unintoxicating — (of a drink, wine, substance, etc) not intoxicating
- union language — a form of a language, used in literature and for official and educational purposes, that combines vocabulary and grammatical features from a number of related dialects, thus representing a compromise between them.
- unmarriageable — suitable or attractive for marriage: The handsome and successful young man was considered eminently marriageable.