13-letter words containing t, r, u, g
- regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.
- regurgitation — the act of regurgitating.
- restructuring — to change, alter, or restore the structure of: to restructure a broken nose.
- return flight — a flight going back
- revenue agent — a government official who is responsible for the collection of revenue.
- revictualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- rhythm guitar — a guitar used to provide rhythm, particularly during a musical ensemble
- right you are — If someone says 'right you are', they are agreeing to do something in a very willing and happy way.
- right-justify — If printed text is right-justified, each line finishes at the same distance from the right-hand edge of the page or column.
- righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
- rotary plough — an implement with a series of blades mounted on a power-driven shaft, used to break up soil or weeds
- rouge et noir — a gambling game using cards, played at a table marked with two red and two black diamond-shaped spots on which the players place their stakes.
- rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
- roundtripping — a form of trading in which a company borrows a sum of money from one source and takes advantage of a short-term rise in interest rates to make a profit by lending it to another
- ruggedization — the act or process of making something rugged
- rumelgumption — commonsense
- rumlegumption — commonsense
- run the gamut — The gamut of something is the complete range of things of that kind, or a wide variety of things of that kind.
- runjeet singh — Ranjit Singh.
- running costs — The running costs of a business are the amount of money that is regularly spent on things such as salaries, heating, lighting, and rent.
- running light — any of various lights required to be displayed by a vessel or aircraft operating between sunset and sunrise.
- running start — Sports. a start, as in the hop, step, and jump or the running broad jump, in which a contestant begins moving before reaching the starting or take-off point.
- running story — a story continued in subsequent issues of a newspaper or magazine; serial.
- running title — Printing. running head.
- running total — a running total is a total which changes because numbers keep being added to it as something progresses
- running track — a piece of ground, usually oval-shaped, that is used for races involving athletes
- saurognathous — related to or resembling the Saurognathae family of birds that possess palate bones similar to those in saurians or lizards
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- shoot through — to leave; depart
- shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
- silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
- single-suiter — one-suiter.
- slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
- sleep through — If you sleep through something, it does not wake you up.
- soul-stirring — arousing excitement and enthusiasm; uplifting
- south georgia — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
- spermatangium — the organ that produces spermatia in red algae.
- splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
- sports ground — an area of land where sports are played
- spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
- spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
- sprung rhythm — a poetic rhythm characterized by the use of strongly accented syllables, often in juxtaposition, accompanied by an indefinite number of unaccented syllables in each foot, of which the accented syllable is the essential component.
- sterculia gum — karaya gum.
- stereoregular — pertaining to stereochemical regularity or having repeating units in a sequential configuration
- straighten up — stand straighter
- strange quark — a quark having electric charge −1/3 times the elementary charge and strangeness −1; it is more massive than the up and down quarks.
- strangulation — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
- string course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- string-puller — a person who uses his or her influence with other people to get things done, often unfairly
- student grant — a grant of money awarded to somebody to fund their studying at a university or college