14-letter words containing o, u, g, i
- sporting house — Older Use. a brothel.
- spring equinox — the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator, making night and day of approximately equal length all over the earth and occurring about March 21 (vernal equinox or spring equinox) and September 22 (autumnal equinox)
- stigmatiferous — (of a plant) having a stigma
- straighten out — make straighter
- strike through — cross out
- styling mousse — a light foamy substance applied to the hair before styling in order to retain the shape of the style
- subaggregation — a subtotalling
- subcontracting — outsourcing of contract work
- suggestion box — receptacle for customers' comments
- sulfinyl group — the bivalent group >SO.
- sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
- sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
- supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
- supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
- support buying — buying carried out to support an exchange rate
- surgical shock — a state of shock that can occur during or after surgery
- survivor guilt — feelings of guilt for having survived a catastrophe in which others died.
- take soundings — to try to find out people's opinions on a subject
- testing ground — place where sth is tested
- the guillotine — a device for beheading persons, consisting of a weighted blade set between two upright posts
- thought police — a group of people with totalitarian views on a given subject, who constantly monitor others for any deviation from prescribed thinking
- through bridge — a bridge in which the track is carried by the lower horizontal members
- tiger mosquito — a large Asian mosquito, Aedes albopictus, introduced into the southern U.S., that is a vector of dengue and other infectious diseases.
- time-consuming — (of an action) requiring or wasting much time.
- to be bursting — to want desperately to urinate
- tongue twister — a word or sequence of words difficult to pronounce, especially rapidly, because of alliteration or a slight variation of consonant sounds, as “She sells seashells by the seashore.”.
- tongue-lashing — severe scolding
- tongue-twister — A tongue-twister is a sentence or expression which is very difficult to say properly, especially when you try to say it quickly. An example of a tongue-twister is 'Red leather, yellow leather'.
- torture flight — a flight used to carry out extraordinary rendition
- 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
- traumatologist — a branch of surgery dealing with major wounds caused by accidents or violence.
- 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.
- tumorigenicity — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
- turkish angora — a long-haired breed of cat, similar to the Persian
- tutorial group — a small grouping of students given intensive tuition by a tutor
- twilight hours — the period in which there occurs soft diffused light due to the sun being just below the horizon, esp following sunset
- ultimogeniture — postremogeniture.
- uncompromising — not admitting of compromise or adjustment of differences; making no concessions; inaccessible to flexible bargaining; unyielding: an uncompromising attitude.
- unconditioning — a particular mode of being of a person or thing; existing state; situation with respect to circumstances.
- uncongeniality — the condition of being uncongenial
- unconvincingly — persuading or assuring by argument or evidence: They gave a convincing demonstration of the car's safety features.
- uncrowned king — a man or woman of high status among a certain group
- under-shooting — to shoot or launch a projectile that strikes under or short of (a target).
- underdiagnosed — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
- underthroating — (on a cornice) a cove extended outward and downward to form a drip.
- undogmatically — in an undogmatic manner
- unegoistically — pertaining to or of the nature of egoism.
- 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.
- ungraciousness — the state of being ungracious
- uniflow engine — a double-acting steam engine exhausting from the middle of each cylinder at each stroke so that the motion of the steam from admission to exhaust is continuous in one direction.