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14-letter words containing r, i, g, o, u, s

  • requisitioning — the act of requiring or demanding.
  • rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
  • rutting season — a recurrent period of sexual excitement and reproductive activity in certain male ruminants, such as the deer, that corresponds to the period of oestrus in females
  • sacrilegiously — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
  • sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
  • saxifragaceous — belonging to the plant family Saxifragaceae.
  • self-righteous — confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others.
  • serum globulin — the blood serum component consisting of proteins with a larger molecular weight than serum albumin
  • shooting guard — the player responsible for attempting long-range shots
  • shopping hours — the times during which shops are open
  • sicstus prolog — A Prolog from the SICS (Swedish Inst of Comp Sci). E-mail: <[email protected]>. Mailing list: [email protected]
  • siege perilous — a vacant seat at the Round Table that could be filled only by the predestined finder of the Holy Grail and was fatal to pretenders.
  • signature loan — a loan requiring no collateral.
  • silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
  • single honours — a British university degree course that involves study in a single area
  • singular point — a point at which a given function of a complex variable has no derivative but of which every neighborhood contains points at which the function has derivatives.
  • smooth-running — operating in a flowing and effective manner, without difficulties or obstructions
  • socioreligious — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of religious and social factors.
  • soul-searching — the act or process of close and penetrating analysis of oneself, to determine one's true motives and sentiments.
  • sound engineer — A sound engineer is a person who works in a recording studio or for a radio or television company, and whose job it is to alter and balance the levels of different sounds as they are recorded.
  • sounding board — a thin, resonant plate of wood forming part of a musical instrument, and so placed as to enhance the power and quality of the tone.
  • south georgian — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
  • spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
  • splinter group — a small organization that becomes separated from or acts apart from an original larger group or a number of other small groups, with which it would normally be united, as because of disagreement.
  • 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
  • subaggregation — a subtotalling
  • subcontracting — outsourcing of contract work
  • sulfinyl group — the bivalent group >SO.
  • sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
  • 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.
  • testing ground — place where sth is tested
  • tiger mosquito — a large Asian mosquito, Aedes albopictus, introduced into the southern U.S., that is a vector of dengue and other infectious diseases.
  • 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-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'.
  • 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.
  • turkish angora — a long-haired breed of cat, similar to the Persian
  • twilight hours — the period in which there occurs soft diffused light due to the sun being just below the horizon, esp following sunset
  • uncompromising — not admitting of compromise or adjustment of differences; making no concessions; inaccessible to flexible bargaining; unyielding: an uncompromising attitude.
  • 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.
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