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14-letter words containing s, t, u, n, g

  • 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
  • trudgen stroke — a swimming stroke in which a double overarm motion and a scissors kick are used
  • tungsten steel — an alloy steel containing tungsten.
  • tunguska basin — large coal basin in central Siberia, between the Yenisei & Lena rivers: it is drained by three rivers, the Lower Tunguska, Stony Tunguska, & Upper Tunguska (usually called the Angara River), which flow west into the Yenisei
  • turkish angora — a long-haired breed of cat, similar to the Persian
  • turning chisel — a chisel used for shaping work on a lathe.
  • un-distracting — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
  • under-shooting — to shoot or launch a projectile that strikes under or short of (a target).
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • unstrengthened — not strengthened or reinforced; not given additional strength
  • unsympathizing — not sympathizing; not offering sympathy; unsympathetic
  • upper tunguska — any of three tributaries of the Yenisei River in the central Russian Federation in Asia: the (Lower Tunguska) 2000 miles (3220 km) long; the (Upper Tunguska) or the lower course of the Angara, 1151 miles (1855 km) long; and the (Stony Tunguska) about 975 miles (1570 km) long.
  • uterogestation — gestation in the womb, i.e. normal pregnancy
  • vacuum casting — the casting of metal within a vacuum.
  • vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
  • visiting hours — hospital, prison: period when visits are permitted
  • 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.
  • vistula lagoon — a shallow lagoon on the SW coast of the Baltic Sea, between Danzig and Kaliningrad, crossed by the border between Poland and Russia
  • vulvovaginitis — inflammation of the vulva and vagina.
  • walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
  • weltanschauung — a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity's relation to it.
  • whistling buoy — a buoy having a whistle operated by air trapped and compressed in an open-bottomed chamber by the rising and falling water level caused by natural wave action.
  • whistling duck — any of several long-legged, chiefly tropical ducks of the genus Dendrocygna, most of which have whistling cries.
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