14-letter words containing s, u, r, g, e
- pruning shears — small, sturdy shears used for pruning shrubbery.
- pseudepigrapha — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
- pseudepigraphy — the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
- pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
- pseudopregnant — relating to the state of pseudopregnancy
- pumped storage — a system for generating hydroelectric power for peak periods by pumping water from a lower to a higher reservoir during low-demand periods and then releasing it during peak periods.
- queer-sounding — that sounds odd or strange
- quicksilvering — the mercury on the back of a mirror
- rabble-rousing — of, relating to, or characteristic of a rabble-rouser.
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
- refugee status — the state of being a person who has fled from some danger or problem, esp political persecution, esp in a foreign country in the eyes of the law
- requisitioning — the act of requiring or demanding.
- rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
- rutting season — a recurrent period of sexual excitement and reproductive activity in certain male ruminants, such as the deer, that corresponds to the period of oestrus in females
- sacrilegiously — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- samuel gompers — Samuel, 1850–1924, U.S. labor leader, born in England: president of the American Federation of Labor 1886–94, 1896–1924.
- sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
- saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
- saxifragaceous — belonging to the plant family Saxifragaceae.
- scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
- scrape through — only just succeed
- security guard — a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
- self-forgetful — forgetful or not thinking of one's own advantage, interest, etc.
- self-regulated — governed or controlled from within; self-regulating.
- self-righteous — confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others.
- self-slaughter — suicide.
- septuagenarian — of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.
- serum globulin — the blood serum component consisting of proteins with a larger molecular weight than serum albumin
- siege perilous — a vacant seat at the Round Table that could be filled only by the predestined finder of the Holy Grail and was fatal to pretenders.
- signature loan — a loan requiring no collateral.
- signature tune — theme song (def 2).
- silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
- single honours — a British university degree course that involves study in a single area
- single premium — a single payment that covers the entire cost of an insurance policy.
- slaughterhouse — a building or place where animals are butchered for food; abattoir.
- slaughterously — murderously
- smoker's cough — a chronic cough caused by smoking.
- socioreligious — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of religious and social factors.
- soul-searching — the act or process of close and penetrating analysis of oneself, to determine one's true motives and sentiments.
- sound engineer — A sound engineer is a person who works in a recording studio or for a radio or television company, and whose job it is to alter and balance the levels of different sounds as they are recorded.
- source program — an original computer program written by a programmer that is converted into the equivalent object program, written in machine language, by the compiler or assembler
- south georgian — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
- spermatogenous — producing spermatozoa.
- spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
- splinter group — a small organization that becomes separated from or acts apart from an original larger group or a number of other small groups, with which it would normally be united, as because of disagreement.
- sporting house — Older Use. a brothel.
- sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
- spring equinox — the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator, making night and day of approximately equal length all over the earth and occurring about March 21 (vernal equinox or spring equinox) and September 22 (autumnal equinox)
- square-bashing — drill on a barrack square