14-letter words containing s, a, g, i, t
- straight arrow — a person who manifests high-minded devotion to clean living and moral righteousness.
- straight chain — an open chain of atoms, usually carbon, with no side chains attached to it.
- straight chair — a chair with a straight back, especially one that is unupholstered and has straight legs and straight arms or no arms.
- straight fight — a contest between two candidates only
- straight flush — a sequence of five consecutive cards of the same suit.
- straight joint — a vertical joint in brickwork that is directly above a vertical joint in the course below
- straight poker — one of the original forms of poker in which players are dealt five cards face down, upon which they bet and then have the showdown without drawing any cards.
- straight razor — a razor having a stiff blade made of steel that is hinged to a handle into which it folds.
- straight stall — a narrow, oblong stall in which a horse or other animal cannot turn around.
- straight-ahead — not deviating from what is usual or expected; conventional or traditional; standard: a straight-ahead novel with a happy ending.
- straight-chain — an open chain of atoms, usually carbon, with no side chains attached to it.
- straight-faced — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- straight-laced — strait-laced (sense 2)
- straighten out — make straighter
- straightjacket — to put in or as in a straitjacket: Her ambition was straitjacketed by her family.
- straining arch — an arch for resisting thrusts, as in a flying buttress.
- straining sill — (in a roof with a queen post) a compression member lying along the tie beam and separating the feet of the struts.
- stratigraphist — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
- strike a light — to ignite something, esp a match, by friction
- strikebreaking — action directed at breaking up a strike of workers.
- striking train — the gear train of the striking mechanism of a timepiece.
- string quartet — a musical composition, usually in three or four movements, for four stringed instruments, typically two violins, viola, and cello.
- strip planting — the growing of different crops on alternate strips of ground that usually follow the contour of the land, a recourse to minimize erosion.
- 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
- sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
- sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
- sunday trading — the fact of opening a shop or business on a Sunday
- supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
- supplicatingly — in a pleading manner
- swimming baths — an indoor swimming pool
- swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
- tacking stitch — a long, loose, temporary stitch used in dressmaking, etc
- take soundings — to try to find out people's opinions on a subject
- 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
- teaching staff — those members of staff in a school, college, or university who teach
- telangiectasis — chronic dilatation of the capillaries and other small blood vessels.
- tendovaginitis — the swelling of both a tendon and its sheath
- 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.
- text messaging — sending typed mobile phone messages
- the game is up — If you say the game is up, you mean that someone's secret plans or activities have been revealed and therefore must stop because they cannot succeed.
- 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
- 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.
- throat seizing — cuckold's knot.