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13-letter words containing n, u, g

  • saint-gaudens — Augustus, 1848–1907, U.S. sculptor, born in Ireland.
  • saurognathous — related to or resembling the Saurognathae family of birds that possess palate bones similar to those in saurians or lizards
  • saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
  • scavenge pump — an oil pump used in some internal-combustion engines to return oil from the crankcase to the oil tank
  • 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-assuming — taking too much for granted; presumptuous.
  • self-doubting — lacking in confidence
  • self-judgment — the act or fact of judging oneself.
  • serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
  • set at naught — to have disregard or scorn for; disdain
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
  • shelving unit — A shelving unit is a flexible display system which can be moved and adjusted to accommodate different product dimensions.
  • shih huang ti — 259–210 b.c, Chinese emperor c247–210 b.c. initiated the building of the Great Wall of China.
  • shunt winding — the winding of an electric motor or generator in such a way that the field and armature circuits are connected in parallel
  • shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
  • sigmund freud — Anna, 1895–1982, British psychoanalyst, born in Austria (daughter of Sigmund Freud).
  • sign language — Also called sign. any of several visual-gestural systems of communication, especially employing manual gestures, as used among deaf people.
  • signed number — Mathematics. a number preceded by a plus sign (+) to indicate a positive quantity or by a minus sign (−) to indicate a negative quantity.
  • 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 sculls — a race for sculls each rowed by one oarsman using a pair of oars.
  • single status — a national agreement that aims to avoid unfairness in pay and reward arrangements for employees and to ensure harmonisation of conditions in comparable posts
  • single-figure — relating to numbers below ten
  • single-suiter — one-suiter.
  • single-tongue — to play (any nonlegato passage) on a wind instrument by obstructing and uncovering the air passage through the lips with the tongue
  • single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
  • 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.
  • sitting judge — a presiding judge; a judge in office
  • skeletogenous — forming a skeleton, or parts of one
  • skunk cabbage — a low, fetid, broad-leaved North American plant, Symplocarpus foetidus, of the arum family, having a brownish-purple and green mottled spathe surrounding a stout spadix, growing in moist ground.
  • sleeping suit — an all-in-one outfit that babies and young children sleep in
  • slimming club — a group of people who meet regularly and are all trying to lose weight
  • snuff-dipping — the practice of absorbing nicotine by holding in one's mouth, between the cheek and the gum, a small amount of tobacco, either loose or enclosed in a sachet
  • 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.
  • sounding line — 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.
  • soundproofing — materials used to make something soundproof
  • souphanouvong — Prince, 1909–1995, Laotian political leader: president 1975–86 (half brother of Prince Souvanna Phouma).
  • sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
  • speaking tube — a tube for conveying the voice over a somewhat limited distance, as from one part of a building or ship to another.
  • spermatangium — the organ that produces spermatia in red algae.
  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
  • sphagnum moss — Botany
  • spinning mule — mule1 (def 7).
  • splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
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