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14-letter words containing s, u, g

  • dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
  • dusting powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
  • dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
  • educated guess — informed estimate
  • electrosurgery — Surgery using a high-frequency electric current to heat and so cut tissue with great precision.
  • encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
  • enfant sauvage — a person given to naive, undisciplined, or unpredictable behaviour, largely because of youth and inexperience
  • english muffin — crumpet
  • english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
  • erogenous zone — a part of the body that is sensitive to sexual stimulation
  • ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
  • eugeosynclinal — of or relating to a eugeosyncline
  • eulogistically — In the form or manner of a eulogy; with praise.
  • excess luggage — luggage that is greater in weight or in number of pieces than an airline, etc, will carry free
  • exsanguination — The action of draining a person, animal, or organ of blood.
  • extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
  • extinguishment — The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
  • feng yu-hsiang — ("Christian General") 1880–1948, Chinese general.
  • figurativeness — The property of being figurative.
  • figure skating — ice skating in which the skater traces intricate patterns on the ice.
  • file signature — A magic number.
  • first language — mother tongue
  • fishing ground — a part of a body of water where the fishing is usually good.
  • flagelliferous — bearing a flagellum
  • flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
  • flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
  • focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
  • fountain grass — a perennial grass, Pennisetum setaceum, of Ethiopia, having bristly spikes, often rose-purple, grown as an ornamental.
  • fragrant sumac — a sprawling shrub, Rhus aromatica, of the cashew family, native to eastern North America, having aromatic foliage and greenish-yellow flowers in small spikes.
  • framing square — a steel square usually having on its faces various tables and scales useful to the carpenter.
  • francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
  • fredericksburg — a city in NE Virginia, on the Rappahannock River: scene of a Confederate victory 1862.
  • full as a goog — drunk
  • fungible issue — a bond issued by a company on the same terms as a bond previously issued by that company, although the redemption yield will probably be different
  • galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
  • gallows humour — sinister and ironic humour
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
  • garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
  • garlic mustard — a plant, Alliaria petiolata, of N temperate regions, with small white flowers and an odour of garlic: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • garlic sausage — sausage meat flavoured with garlic
  • garrison house — a style of early New England house in which the second floor projects beyond the first.
  • gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
  • gastrovascular — serving for digestion and circulation, as a cavity.
  • gaussian curve — normal curve.
  • gaussian image — the point in an optical system with spherical aberration at which the paraxial rays meet.
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