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