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

  • highly strung — person: tense, sensitive
  • house manager — a business manager responsible for managing a theater and its staff.
  • house surgeon — a surgeon who lives in a hospital in which he or she is on call.
  • house-raising — a gathering of persons in a rural community to help one of its members build a house.
  • house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
  • housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
  • housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
  • housing start — an instance of beginning the construction of a dwelling.
  • hunger strike — refusal to eat as a protest
  • hunger-strike — to go on a hunger strike.
  • hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
  • inaugurations — Plural form of inauguration.
  • incongruences — not congruent.
  • incongruities — the quality or condition of being incongruous.
  • incongruously — out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming: an incongruous effect; incongruous behavior.
  • instrumenting — Present participle of instrument.
  • interreligous — Between religions.
  • ipecac spurge — a spurge, Euphorbia ipecacuanhae, of the eastern U.S.
  • irregularness — Quality of being irregular.
  • irreligiously — In an irreligious fashion.
  • isoamyl group — the univalent group C 5 H 11 .
  • judges' rules — (in English law, formerly) a set of rules, not legally binding, governing the behaviour of police towards suspects, as in administering a caution to a person under arrest
  • jury shopping — the practice of presenting a case to several juries until a favourable decision is obtained
  • key signature — (in notation) the group of sharps or flats placed after the clef to indicate the tonality of the music following.
  • labour-saving — A labour-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
  • lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
  • language arts — study of reading and writing
  • laser surgery — the surgical use of lasers.
  • lasik surgery — laser surgery to correct short sight
  • letzeburgesch — a Germanic dialect that is the native language of most of the people of Luxembourg.
  • light cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
  • liqueur glass — a small glass intended for drinking liqueur from
  • liver sausage — liverwurst.
  • long trousers — full-length trousers (as opposed to shorts)
  • longsuffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
  • lump of sugar — lump1 (def 4).
  • luxembourgish — Also, Luxembourgish [luhk-suh m-bur-gish] /ˈlʌk səmˌbɜr gɪʃ/ (Show IPA). Letzeburgesch.
  • magnesiferous — (geology) Containing magnesium.
  • magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
  • manganiferous — containing manganese.
  • manrikigusari — a Japanese chain weapon with weighted ends, intended to strike or ensnare the enemy
  • marcus garvey — Marcus (Moziah) [moh-zahy-uh] /moʊˈzaɪ ə/ (Show IPA), 1887–1940, Jamaican black-rights activist in the U.S. (1916–27): advocated emigration of black Americans to Africa.
  • 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.
  • megastructure — a very large, usually high-rise building or a complex of such buildings used for many purposes, as for apartments, offices, stores, theaters, and athletic facilities.
  • merrythoughts — Plural form of merrythought.
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