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13-letter words containing s, u, r, g, e, n

  • hunger-strike — to go on a hunger strike.
  • incongruences — not congruent.
  • incongruities — the quality or condition of being incongruous.
  • instrumenting — Present participle of instrument.
  • interreligous — Between religions.
  • irregularness — Quality of being irregular.
  • key signature — (in notation) the group of sharps or flats placed after the clef to indicate the tonality of the music following.
  • lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
  • language arts — study of reading and writing
  • long trousers — full-length trousers (as opposed to shorts)
  • longsuffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
  • magnesiferous — (geology) Containing magnesium.
  • magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
  • manganiferous — containing manganese.
  • measuring cup — a graduated cup used especially in cooking for measuring ingredients.
  • measuring jug — a graduated jug used in cooking to measure ingredients
  • measuring rod — ruler, gauge, stick for measuring
  • measuringworm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
  • micrognuemacs — (text, tool)   (mg) A Public Domain Emacs-style editor modified from MicroEmacs to be more compatible with GNU Emacs. mg is essentially free, it is not associated with the GNU project, and does not have the GNU copyright restrictions. It is a small, fast, portable editor for people who can't run real Emacs thing for one reason or another. It has few if any of the MicroEmacs features that were incompatible with GNU Emacs and adds missing features that seemed essential. MicroGnuEmacs is derived from, and aims to replace, v30 of MicroEmacs, the latest version from the original MicroEmacs author Dave Conroy. The chief contributors were Mike Meyer <[email protected]>, Mic Kaczmarczik <[email protected]>, Bob Larson, and Dave Brower <[email protected]>. mg version 1a of 1986-11-16 works with 4.2BSD, 4.3BSD, Ultrix-32, OS9/68k, VMS, Amiga, System V, Eunice. It is included in base OpenBSD. It should also support MS-DOS, PC-DOS and the Rainbow.
  • misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
  • moneygrubbers — Plural form of moneygrubber.
  • mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
  • mud wrestling — sport: physical combat in mud
  • mud-wrestling — wrestling in an enclosure with a floor or base of wet mud, staged as a public display and competitive event.
  • neurolinguist — One who studies neurolinguistics.
  • neurosurgeons — Plural form of neurosurgeon.
  • neurosurgical — Of, or pertaining to neurosurgery.
  • newgroup wars — /n[y]oo'groop worz/ [Usenet] The salvos of dueling "newgroup" and "rmgroup" messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a newsgroup should be created net-wide, or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed. These usually settle out within a week or two as it becomes clear whether the group has a natural constituency (usually, it doesn't). At times, especially in the completely anarchic alt hierarchy, the names of newsgroups themselves become a form of comment or humour; e.g. the spinoff of alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork from alt.tv.muppets in early 1990, or any number of specialised abuse groups named after particularly notorious flamers, e.g. alt.weemba.
  • non-dangerous — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
  • non-egregious — extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant: an egregious mistake; an egregious liar. Synonyms: gross, outrageous, notorious, shocking. Antonyms: tolerable, moderate, minor, unnoticeable.
  • nongregarious — (zoology) Not gregarious; solitary. Compare 'ungregarious'.
  • numerologists — the study of numbers, as the figures designating the year of one's birth, to determine their supposed influence on one's life, future, etc.
  • nusa tenggara — an island chain east of Java, mostly in Indonesia: the main islands are Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, Alor, and Timor. Pop: 11 112 702 (2000). Area: 73 144 sq km (28 241 sq miles)
  • nutrigenetics — the branch of science concerned with the effect of heredity on diet and nutrition
  • nutrigenomics — the study of how individual genetic makeup interacts with diet, especially the effects of this interaction on a person's health.
  • opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
  • orange squash — an orange-flavoured drink made from fruit juice, sugar, and water
  • outprocessing — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
  • outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
  • over-trusting — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
  • overingenious — ingenious to a fault
  • pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
  • paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • prague spring — a brief period of democratization in Czechoslovakia in 1968, under Alexander Dubček.
  • press cutting — an article or picture from a newspaper about someone or something
  • prolegomenous — prefatory; preliminary; introductory.
  • psychosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in psychosurgery
  • purse strings — hold the purse strings, to have the power to determine how money shall be spent.
  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
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