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14-letter words containing s, n, u, g, i, e

  • subaggregation — a subtotalling
  • subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
  • submachine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • sucking diesel — doing very well; successful
  • sugar refinery — place where sugar is processed
  • suggestion box — receptacle for customers' comments
  • suggestiveness — that suggests; referring to other thoughts, persons, etc.: His recommendation was suggestive of his boss's thinking.
  • summer pudding — a pudding made by filling a bread-lined basin with a purée of fruit, leaving it to soak, and then turning it out
  • summit meeting — a meeting or conference of heads of state, especially to conduct diplomatic negotiations and ease international tensions.
  • sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
  • supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
  • surpassingness — the fact of surpassing
  • take soundings — to try to find out people's opinions on a subject
  • testing ground — place where sth is tested
  • thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
  • thunder thighs — thick-set upper legs
  • time signature — a numerical or other indication at the beginning of a piece showing the meter.
  • 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'.
  • 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
  • turning chisel — a chisel used for shaping work on a lathe.
  • unaspiringness — the quality of being unaspiring or unambitious
  • unavailingness — the state or quality of being unavailing or useless
  • unchangingness — the quality or state of not changing
  • 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.
  • understandings — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • understrapping — subordinate or inferior
  • undesignedness — the state of being undesigned
  • undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
  • unegoistically — pertaining to or of the nature of egoism.
  • unenterprising — lacking in business initiative
  • unextinguished — to put out (a fire, light, etc.); put out the flame of (something burning or lighted): to extinguish a candle.
  • ungraciousness — the state of being ungracious
  • unhesitatingly — without hesitation; not delayed by uncertainty: an unhesitating decision.
  • unknightliness — the quality or condition of being unknightly
  • unrightfulness — the quality of being unjust or unrightful
  • unyieldingness — the quality or state of being unyielding
  • uterogestation — gestation in the womb, i.e. normal pregnancy
  • vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
  • venus's girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
  • venus's-girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
  • venus-figurine — Venus (def 3).
  • vienna sausage — a small frankfurter, often served as an hors d'oeuvre.
  • visiting nurse — a registered nurse employed by a social service agency to give medical care to the sick in their homes or to implement other public health programs.
  • wearing course — the top layer of a road that carries the traffic; road surface
  • web-publishing — a person or company that uploads, creates, or edits content on Web pages; one who maintains or manages a website.
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