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

  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • hound's-tongue — any of various plants belonging to the genus Cynoglossum, of the borage family, especially C. officinale, having coarse, tongue-shaped leaves, dull purple flowers, and prickly nutlets.
  • house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • housing estate — housing development.
  • housing market — property trade
  • housing scheme — arrangement offering subsidized housing
  • hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
  • hunting season — annual period when hunting is permitted
  • immunogenetics — the branch of immunology dealing with the study of immunity in relation to genetic makeup.
  • impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
  • incongruencies — Plural form of incongruency.
  • indigenousness — The quality or state of being indigenous.
  • ingloriousness — The state of being inglorious.
  • insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
  • interest group — a group of people drawn or acting together in support of a common interest or to voice a common concern: Political interest groups seek to influence legislation.
  • interlanguages — Plural form of interlanguage.
  • interreligious — existing or communicating between different religions.
  • intertriginous — (medicine) Of or relating to intertrigo.
  • jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
  • judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
  • jumping spider — any of several small, hairy spiders, of the family Salticidae, that stalk and jump upon their prey instead of snaring it in a web.
  • king's counsel — a body of barristers of a higher status who are specially appointed to be the crown's counsel, and who are permitted to plead inside the bar in the court.
  • languorousness — The quality of being languorous.
  • lapsus linguae — a slip of the tongue.
  • laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
  • last judgement — In the Christian religion, the Last Judgement is the last day of the world when God will judge everyone who has died and decide whether they will go to Heaven or Hell.
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • lignocellulose — any of various compounds of lignin and cellulose comprising the essential part of woody cell walls.
  • lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
  • longleat house — an Elizabethan mansion near Warminster in Wiltshire, built (from 1568) by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne; the grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown, now contain a famous safari park
  • lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
  • lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
  • luminous range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible in clear weather, disregarding interference from obstructions and from the curvature of the earth and depending on the power of the light.
  • manslaughterer — (legal) Someone who commits manslaughter.
  • manual testing — (testing)   That part of software testing that requires human input, analysis, or evaluation.
  • meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
  • measuring worm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
  • megasporangium — a sporangium containing megaspores.
  • metalinguistic — Pertaining to metalinguistics.
  • miscounselling — the act of giving bad or incorrect counselling
  • misgovernaunce — misgovernment
  • murrhine glass — glassware believed to resemble the murrhine cups of ancient Rome.
  • nassau grouper — a colorful food and game fish, Epinephelus striatus, common off the Florida Keys.
  • neglectfulness — The characteristic of being neglectful.
  • neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
  • neolinguistics — a school of linguistics centered in Italy emphasizing the importance of linguistic geography in diachronic studies.
  • nervous energy — an excess of energy that you have when you are apprehensive or worried
  • neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
  • non-gregarious — fond of the company of others; sociable.
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