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14-letter words containing r, a, g, s

  • 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
  • sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
  • sugar refinery — place where sugar is processed
  • sugar snap pea — snap pea.
  • sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
  • sugared almond — Sugared almonds are nuts which have been covered with a hard sweet coating.
  • summer sausage — dried or smoked sausage that keeps without refrigeration.
  • summer tanager — a tanager, Piranga rubra, of the south and central U.S., the male of which is rose-red, the female olive-green above and yellow below.
  • sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
  • sunday trading — the fact of opening a shop or business on a Sunday
  • supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
  • supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
  • supererogatory — going beyond the requirements of duty.
  • suprasegmental — above, beyond, or in addition to a segment.
  • surgical shock — a state of shock that can occur during or after surgery
  • surpassingness — the fact of surpassing
  • sync-generator — an electronic generator that supplies synchronizing pulses to television scanning and transmitting equipment.
  • system program — a program, as an operating system, compiler, or utility program, that controls some aspect of the operation of a computer (opposed to application program).
  • tarpon springs — a town in W Florida.
  • tate galleries — two art galleries in London, the original Tate Gallery (1897), now Tate Britain, and Tate Modern, created in the former Bankside power station in 2000
  • tayside region — a former local government region in E Scotland: formed in 1975 from Angus, Kinross-shire, and most of Perthshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Angus, City of Dundee, and Perth and Kinross
  • tensor bandage — a wide elasticized bandage that supports injured joints
  • tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • tergiversatory — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • test marketing — to offer (a new product) for sale, usually in a limited area, in order to ascertain and evaluate consumer response.
  • texas longhorn — one of a breed of long-horned beef cattle of the southwestern U.S., developed from cattle introduced into North America from Spain and valued for disease resistance, fecundity, and a historical association with the old West: now rare.
  • thalassography — oceanography, especially that branch dealing with smaller bodies of water, as bays, sounds, and gulfs.
  • the everglades — a subtropical marshy region of Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee: contains the Everglades National Park established to preserve the flora and fauna of the swamps. Area: over 13 000 sq km (5000 sq miles)
  • the grenadines — a chain of about 600 islets in the Caribbean, part of the Windward Islands, extending for about 100 km (60 miles) between St Vincent and Grenada and divided administratively between the two states. Largest island: Carriacou
  • the red guards — a radical political movement of civilian youths in China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution
  • thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
  • thermostatting — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
  • threaded glass — glass decorated with a pattern produced by variegated glass filaments.
  • throat seizing — cuckold's knot.
  • 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.
  • to gather dust — If you say that something is gathering dust, you mean that it has been left somewhere and nobody is using it or doing anything with it.
  • trading estate — industrial area
  • traffic lights — a set of coloured lights placed at crossroads, junctions, etc, to control the flow of traffic
  • train-spotting — (of a train enthusiast) the activity of going to train stations and recording the numbers of trains
  • training pants — briefs or shorts of cotton with added thickness, worn by a young child during toilet training.
  • training shoes — running shoes for sports training, esp in contrast to studded or spiked shoes worn for the sport itself
  • transfer agent — a person, bank, or trust company officially designated to act for a corporation in executing and recording the transfers of its stock from one legal owner to another.
  • 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
  • transmigration — the act of transmigrating.
  • transportingly — in a way to be transported or to transport
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