14-letter words containing t, u, g, l, e, s
- lifestyle guru — a person hired to give someone advice on various aspects of his or her life, work, and relationships
- light the fuse — If someone or something lights the fuse of a particular situation or activity, they suddenly get it started.
- lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
- logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
- longleat house — an Elizabethan mansion near Warminster in Wiltshire, built (from 1568) by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne; the grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown, now contain a famous safari park
- lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
- lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
- manslaughterer — (legal) Someone who commits manslaughter.
- manual testing — (testing) That part of software testing that requires human input, analysis, or evaluation.
- metalinguistic — Pertaining to metalinguistics.
- multireligious — belonging to or following more than one religion
- neglectfulness — The characteristic of being neglectful.
- neolinguistics — a school of linguistics centered in Italy emphasizing the importance of linguistic geography in diachronic studies.
- neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- nursing bottle — a bottle with a rubber nipple, from which an infant sucks milk, water, etc.
- old portuguese — the language of Portugal as spoken and written from the 14th to the middle of the 16th centuries.
- osmoregulation — the process by which cells and simple organisms maintain fluid and electrolyte balance with their surroundings.
- osmoregulatory — Of or pertaining to osmoregulation.
- pneumonologist — an expert or specialist in the respiratory system
- pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
- power struggle — fight to take control
- rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
- saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
- self-actuating — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
- self-executing — going into effect immediately without the need of supplementary legislation: a self-executing treaty.
- self-forgetful — forgetful or not thinking of one's own advantage, interest, etc.
- self-indulgent — indulging one's own desires, passions, whims, etc., especially without restraint.
- 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.
- shutting stile — the stile of a door or shutter that closes against the frame of the opening.
- signature loan — a loan requiring no collateral.
- silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
- slaughterhouse — a building or place where animals are butchered for food; abattoir.
- slaughterously — murderously
- 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.
- sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
- stegocephalous — having the characteristics of the order Stegocephala
- sturgeon's law — "Ninety percent of everything is crap". Derived from a quote by science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon, who once said, "Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud." Oddly, when Sturgeon's Law is cited, the final word is almost invariably changed to "crap". Compare Ninety-Ninety Rule. Though this maxim originated in SF fandom, most hackers recognise it and are all too aware of its truth.
- sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
- styling mousse — a light foamy substance applied to the hair before styling in order to retain the shape of the style
- sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
- suggestibility — subject to or easily influenced by suggestion.
- suprasegmental — above, beyond, or in addition to a segment.
- the last laugh — the final success in an argument, situation, etc, after previous defeat
- thoughtfulness — showing consideration for others; considerate.
- to sleep rough — When people sleep or live rough, they sleep out of doors, usually because they have no home.
- tongue-lashing — severe scolding
- transit lounge — a waiting room at an international airport used mainly by passengers transferring from one flight to another without presenting themselves to customs or immigration officials