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14-letter words containing s, u, g

  • braunschweiger — a smoked liver sausage, named after the city of Braunschweig
  • 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
  • british guiana — Guyana
  • budget surplus — the amount by which government income from taxation, customs duties, etc, exceeds expenditure in any one fiscal year
  • building works — construction projects
  • burghley house — an Elizabethan mansion near Stamford in Lincolnshire: seat of the Cecil family; site of the annual Burghley Horse Trials
  • bursting point — the point at which normal capacity is exceeded.
  • bush telegraph — a means of communication between primitive peoples over large areas, as by drum beats
  • business agent — a representative of a labor union local, who investigates working conditions, negotiates contracts, etc.
  • business angel — A business angel is a person who gives financial support to a commercial venture and receives a share of any profits from it, but who does not expect to be involved in its management.
  • cancer-causing — having the ability to induce the growth of a malignant tumour
  • canons regular — one of a body of dignitaries or prebendaries attached to a cathedral or a collegiate church; a member of the chapter of a cathedral or a collegiate church.
  • carriage house — coach house.
  • chauvinist pig — a sexist man
  • chest-thumping — the act or practice of boasting.
  • christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
  • circumscribing — Present participle of circumscribe.
  • circumstancing — Present participle of circumstance.
  • cisalpine gaul — (in the ancient world) that part of Gaul between the Alps and the Apennines
  • citrus heights — a city in central California, near Sacramento.
  • class struggle — in Marxism, the constant economic and political struggle held to exist between social classes regarded as exploiting and those regarded as exploited; specif., in capitalist countries, the struggle between capitalists (bourgeoisie) and workers (proletariat)
  • clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
  • clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
  • clustergeeking — (jargon)   /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
  • coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
  • coffee grounds — the used ground beans that remain in a pot or coffee-maker
  • commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
  • compound sugar — any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.
  • configurations — Plural form of configuration.
  • conjugate axis — the axis of a hyperbola perpendicular to the transverse axis at a point equidistant from the foci.
  • consanguineous — having the same ancestor; closely related
  • consul general — a consul of the highest grade, usually stationed in a city of considerable commercial importance
  • consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
  • consumer goods — Consumer goods are items bought by people for their own use, rather than by businesses. Compare capital goods.
  • consumer group — an organization that campaigns for the rights of consumers
  • contagiousness — capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object: contagious diseases.
  • contiguousness — The state or quality of being contiguous.
  • costume change — a change of costume by an actor
  • countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
  • counterpoising — Present participle of counterpoise.
  • countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
  • countersigning — Present participle of countersign.
  • countersinking — Present participle of countersink.
  • counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
  • counting house — a room or building used by the accountants of a business
  • country singer — a singer of country and western music
  • courageousness — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
  • courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
  • creeping jesus — an obsequious or servile person
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