13-letter words containing s, t, o, u, g
- draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
- draughtswoman — Alternative spelling of draftswoman.
- duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
- ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- entomophagous — feeding mainly on insects; insectivorous
- ethnolinguist — a person who studies ethnolinguistics
- eusporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a group of cells, rather than a single cell, and with no specialized dispersal of spores
- expostulating — Present participle of expostulate.
- ferrotungsten — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent tungsten.
- floutingstock — a laughing-stock; the object of mockery or flouting
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- forgetfulness — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
- freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.
- frontal gyrus — any of several convolutions on the outer surface of the frontal lobe of the cerebrum.
- galactagogues — Plural form of galactagogue.
- gametothallus — a gamete-producing thallus.
- garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
- gastrocnemius — the largest muscle in the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot, raises the heel, and assists in bending the knee.
- geitonogamous — of or relating to geitonogamy
- gentianaceous — belonging to the plant family Gentianaceae.
- genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
- george custer — George Armstrong [ahrm-strawng,, -strong] /ˈɑrm strɔŋ,, -strɒŋ/ (Show IPA), 1839–76, U.S. general and Indian fighter.
- gesticulation — the act of gesticulating.
- gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
- giant sequoia — big tree.
- give pause to — to cause to hesitate
- glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
- glutinousness — The quality of being glutinous.
- go great guns — to act or function with great speed, intensity, etc
- go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
- god's country — an area or region supposed to be favored by God, especially a naturally beautiful rural area.
- godwin-austen — Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
- good question — pertinent or insightful enquiry
- granulomatous — an inflammatory tumor or growth composed of granulation tissue.
- gros de tours — a ribbed silk fabric made with a two- or three-ply warp interlaced with organzine and tram filling.
- grotesqueness — odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
- grotesqueries — Plural form of grotesquery.
- ground stroke — a stroke made by hitting the ball after it has bounced from the ground. Compare volley (def 4b).
- ground troops — soldiers positioned on the ground
- groundstrokes — Plural form of groundstroke.
- guesstimation — (pejorative) An estimation made without good justification and often biased.
- gunshot wound — bullet injury caused by a firearm
- haematogenous — producing blood
- hart's-tongue — a fern, Phyllitis scolopendrium, having long, leathery, wavy-edged leaves.
- heart surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in performing operations on the heart
- hematophagous — feeding on blood, as the vampire bat.
- heterogeneous — different in kind; unlike; incongruous.
- house-hunting — the act of searching for a house to buy or rent
- housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.