13-letter words containing s, u, g
- bosman ruling — an EU ruling that allows out-of-contract footballers to leave their clubs without the clubs receiving a transfer fee
- boutros-ghali — ˈBoutros (ˈbutroʊs ) ; bo̅oˈtrōs) 1922- ; Egypt. diplomat: secretary-general of the United Nations (1992-96)
- braggadocious — boastful
- brain surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in brain surgery
- brain surgery — operation on the brain
- brass rubbing — A brass rubbing is a picture made by placing a piece of paper over a brass plate that has writing or a picture on it, and rubbing it with a wax crayon.
- brass-rubbing — an antiquarian's technique for copying designs from incised brass memorial slabs and the like.
- brassfounding — the practice of making things from brass
- breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
- buccaneerings — the characteristic actions of a buccaneer
- buck sergeant — a newly promoted sergeant
- budget speech — the speech in which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- buffalo grass — a short grass, Buchloë dactyloides, growing on the dry plains of the central US
- buffalo wings — spicy fried segments of chicken wings, usually served with celery sticks and a sauce of blue cheese
- buggin's turn — promotion by seniority or rotation rather than merit.
- buggins' turn — the principle of awarding an appointment to members of a group in turn, rather than according to merit
- build bridges — to promote reconciliation or cooperation between hostile groups or people
- building site — A building site is an area of land on which a building or a group of buildings is in the process of being built or altered.
- bulk settling — Bulk settling is a process in which two liquids, or a solid and a liquid, of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.
- burgess shale — a bed of Cambrian sedimentary rock in the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia containing many unique invertebrate fossils
- burglariously — in the manner of a burglar or buglary
- burmese glass — an American art glass of the late 19th century, ranging from greenish-yellow to pink.
- burning glass — a convex lens for concentrating the sun's rays into a small area to produce heat or fire
- bus mastering — bus master
- butterfingers — a person who drops things inadvertently or fails to catch things
- calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
- capsule range — a small range of clothes by a particular designer, intended to be representative of the full range
- carrickfergus — a town in E Northern Ireland, in Carrickfergus district, Co Antrim; historic settlement of Scottish Protestants on Belfast Lough; Norman castle. Pop: 27 201 (2001)
- cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
- cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
- casting couch — a couch on which a casting director is said to seduce women seeking a part in a film or play
- cellar fungus — a fungus, Coniophora puteana, that causes dry rot in timber.
- cellulose-gum — a white, water-soluble polymer derived from cellulose, used as a coating and sizing for paper and textiles, a stabilizer for various foods, and an appetite suppressor.
- chaise longue — A chaise longue is a kind of sofa with only one arm and usually a back along half its length.
- chaise lounge — A chaise lounge is the same as a chaise longue.
- changefulness — Propensity to change.
- cheeseburgers — Plural form of cheeseburger.
- chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
- chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
- circularising — Present participle of circularise.
- circumambages — round-about methods
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
- cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
- colleagueship — workplace companionship
- compsognathus — any bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Compsognathus, of late Jurassic age, having a slender body that reached a length of 30 inches (76 cm).
- computerising — Present participle of computerise.
- confusingness — causing or tending to cause confusion: a confusing attempt at explanation.
- congratulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of congratulate.
- congruousness — The state or quality of being congruous.