14-letter words containing s, t, a, g, n
- backscratching — a long-handled device for scratching one's own back.
- bang to rights — caught red-handed
- basic training — Basic training is the training that someone receives when they first join the armed forces.
- bastard indigo — a bushy shrub, Amorpha fruticosa, of the legume family, native to North America, having elongated clusters of dull purplish or bluish flowers.
- basting thread — inexpensive, loosely twisted thread that can be easily pulled out when permanent stitching is in place
- bathing trunks — Bathing trunks are shorts that a man wears when he goes swimming.
- batwing sleeve — a sleeve of a garment with a deep armhole and a tight wrist
- beard-stroking — deep thought
- binding strake — a very strong, heavy strake of planking, especially one next to a sheer strake.
- bioregionalist — someone who believes in bioregionalism
- black as night — totally dark
- blind staggers — the staggers
- blind stamping — an impression on a book cover without using colour or gold leaf
- blood and guts — dealing with or depicting war or violence, especially in a lurid manner: a blood-and-guts movie.
- blood-and-guts — dealing with or depicting war or violence, especially in a lurid manner: a blood-and-guts movie.
- body snatching — the act or practice of robbing a grave to obtain a cadaver for dissection.
- bracket fungus — any saprotroph or parasitic fungus of the basidiomycetous family Polyporaceae, growing as a shelflike mass (bracket) from tree trunks and producing spores in vertical tubes in the bracket
- branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
- brass farthing — something of little or no value
- breast-beating — public or ostentatious expression of guilt, remorse, or sorrow
- breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
- bremsstrahlung — the radiation produced when an electrically charged particle, esp an electron, is slowed down by the electric field of an atomic nucleus or an atomic ion
- bring onstream — To bring onstream a plant, mine, oilfield, etc. is to start production there.
- british guiana — Guyana
- business agent — a representative of a labor union local, who investigates working conditions, negotiates contracts, etc.
- by a long shot — People sometimes use the expression by a long shot to emphasize the opinion they are giving.
- cable's length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
- cairngormstone — (mineral, rare) A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, found especially in the mountains of w Cairngorm in Scotland.
- campaign chest — money collected and set aside for use in a campaign, especially a political one; a campaign fund.
- categorisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of categorization.
- characterising — Present participle of characterise.
- charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
- chauvinist pig — a sexist man
- christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- chromatic sign — Music. accidental (def 5).
- cilician gates — a pass in S Turkey, over the Taurus Mountains
- circumstancing — Present participle of circumstance.
- closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
- clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
- coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
- coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
- coasting wagon — a toy wagon for children, often used for coasting down hills.
- coinvestigator — a fellow investigator
- color sergeant — a sergeant who has charge of battalion or regimental colors.
- commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
- configurations — Plural form of configuration.
- conflagrations — Plural form of conflagration.
- conjugate axis — the axis of a hyperbola perpendicular to the transverse axis at a point equidistant from the foci.
- consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
- contagiousness — capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object: contagious diseases.