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16-letter words containing t, r, u, g

  • semiagricultural — partly engaged in or given over to agriculture
  • sheltering trust — a trust that provides a fund for a beneficiary, as a minor, with the title vested so that the fund or its income cannot be claimed by others, as creditors of the beneficiary.
  • shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • shugart, alan f. — Alan F. Shugart
  • sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
  • smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
  • soft brown sugar — a type of moist sugar made by coating white sugar with dark molasses
  • soft furnishings — home fabrics
  • south burlington — a town in NW Vermont.
  • speaking trumpet — a trumpet-shaped instrument used to carry the voice a great distance or held to the ear by a deaf person to aid his hearing
  • spring mountains — a mountain range in S Nevada extending to the California border. Highest peak, Charleston Peak. 11,919 feet (3635 meters).
  • squatter's right — a claim to real property, especially public land, that may be granted to a person who has openly possessed and continuously occupied it without legal authority for a prescribed period of years.
  • stage production — a play or show which is performed on stage
  • statutory change — a change in the law
  • stereoregularity — (of a polymer) the degree to which successive configurations in space along the chain follow a simple rule. Also called tacticity. Compare configuration (def 4).
  • stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
  • stomach-churning — causing nausea.
  • strawberry guava — a shrub or small tree, Psidium littorale, of the myrtle family, native to Brazil, having smooth, grayish-brown bark, leathery leaves, white flowers, and edible, white-fleshed, purplish-red fruit.
  • streaked gurnard — a type of fish, Chelidonichthys lastoviza or Trigloporus lastoviza
  • subcartilaginous — partially or incompletely cartilaginous.
  • substantia nigra — a deeply pigmented area of the midbrain containing dopamine-producing nerve cells.
  • subtropical high — one of several highs, as the Azores and Pacific highs, that prevail over the oceans at latitudes of about 30 degrees N and S. Also called subtropical anticyclone. Compare high (def 37).
  • sugar plantation — a large area of land where sugar is grown
  • summary judgment — a judgment, as in an action for debt, that is entered without the necessity of jury trial, based on affidavits of the creditor and debtor that convince the court that there is no arguable issue.
  • summer lightning — distant sheet lightning without audible thunder, which typically occurs on a summer evening
  • sumo (wrestling) — a highly stylized Japanese form of wrestling engaged in by large, extremely heavy men
  • superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
  • supporting actor — performer: not lead
  • surface integral — the limit, as the norm of the partition of a given surface into sections of area approaches zero, of the sum of the product of the areas times the value of a given function of three variables at some point on each section.
  • surface-printing — planography.
  • surrogate mother — a person who acts in the place of another person's biological mother.
  • tanagra figurine — a small terra-cotta statuette produced from the late 4th to the 3rd century b.c. in Tanagra, Boeotia, and found chiefly in tombs.
  • teutoburg forest — region of low, forested mountains, mostly in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: highest point, c. 1,500 ft (457 m)
  • teutoburger wald — a chain of wooded hills in Germany, in Westphalia: Romans defeated by German tribes a.d.
  • the arabian gulf — the arm of the Arabian Sea between SW Iran and Arabia; important for the oilfields on its shores
  • the gang of four — a radical faction within the Chinese Communist Party that emerged as a political force in the spring of 1976 and was suppressed later that year. Its members, Zhang Chunqiao, Wang Hongwen, Yao Wenyuan, and Jiang Qing, were tried and imprisoned (1981)
  • the gospel truth — the unquestionable truth
  • the high country — sheep pastures in the foothills of the Southern Alps, New Zealand
  • the king country — an area in the centre of North Island, New Zealand: home of the King Movement, a nineteenth-century Māori separatist movement
  • the scots guards — a regiment of Guards Division of the British Army which dates back to 1642
  • the urban league — a civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States
  • the virgin queen — another name for Queen Elizabeth I of England
  • there you are/go — You say 'there you are' or 'there you go' when you are offering something to someone.
  • thermoregulation — the regulation of body temperature.
  • thinking through — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
  • thought disorder — disorganized speech, as flight of ideas or loosening of associations, thought to reflect disorganized thinking and occurring as a symptom of some types of mental illness, as manic disorder or schizophrenia.
  • through the mill — a factory for certain kinds of manufacture, as paper, steel, or textiles.
  • through-composed — having different music for each verse: a through-composed song. Compare strophic (def 2).
  • tierra del fuego — a group of islands at the S tip of South America, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan: jointly owned by Argentina and Chile; boundary disputed. 27,476 sq. mi. (71,165 sq. km).
  • to come a gutzer — to make an error or blunder
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