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16-letter words containing t, u, n, g, s, i

  • santiago de cuba — a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
  • security manager — The security manager of a store is the person responsible for organizing all security in the store and to whom security guards report.
  • security vetting — the process of investigating somebody to establish their trustworthiness
  • self-liquidating — capable of being sold and converted into cash within a short period of time or before the date on which the supplier must be paid.
  • self-lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • self-questioning — review or scrutiny of one's own motives or behavior.
  • self-subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • sociolinguistics — the study of language as it functions in society; the study of the interaction between linguistic and social variables.
  • soft furnishings — home fabrics
  • south burlington — a town in NW Vermont.
  • south huntington — a town in central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • speak in tongues — to engage in glossolalia
  • 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
  • spill one's guts — the alimentary canal, especially between the pylorus and the anus, or some portion of it. Compare foregut, midgut, hindgut.
  • spring mountains — a mountain range in S Nevada extending to the California border. Highest peak, Charleston Peak. 11,919 feet (3635 meters).
  • stage production — a play or show which is performed on stage
  • stinging capsule — a nematocyst.
  • stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
  • stomach-churning — causing nausea.
  • student teaching — the act of teaching in a school for a limited period under supervision as part of a course to qualify as a teacher
  • subcartilaginous — partially or incompletely cartilaginous.
  • subsistence wage — the lowest wage upon which a worker and his or her family can survive
  • substantia nigra — a deeply pigmented area of the midbrain containing dopamine-producing nerve cells.
  • sugar plantation — a large area of land where sugar is grown
  • 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
  • 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.
  • suspending agent — A suspending agent is a liquid in which a solid substance can be held in suspension.
  • sustaining pedal — a pedal on a piano that when depressed with the foot raises the dampers and permits the strings to vibrate and sustain the tone.
  • swimming costume — A swimming costume is the same as a swimsuit.
  • touring bindings — specialised ski bindings with releasable locked down heels that can be used for ski touring and backcountry skiing
  • trailing arbutus — Also called arbutus, mayflower. a creeping eastern North American plant, Epigaea repens, of the heath family, having leathery, oval leaves and terminal clusters of fragrant pink or white flowers.
  • trailing fuchsia — a shrub, Fuchsia procumbens, of the evening primrose family, native to New Zealand, having long-stalked leaves and drooping, orange-and-purple flowers, used in hanging baskets.
  • transalpine gaul — an ancient region in W Europe, including the modern areas of N Italy, France, Belgium, and the S Netherlands: consisted of two main divisions, one part S of the Alps (Cisalpine Gaul) and another part N of the Alps (Transalpine Gaul)
  • tungsten carbide — a very hard, black or gray compound of tungsten and carbon, used in the manufacture of cutting and abrasion tools, dies, and wear-resistant machine parts.
  • undiscriminating — differentiating; analytical.
  • visual magnitude — Astronomy. magnitude (def 5a).
  • visual-magnitude — size; extent; dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle.
  • washing-up water — water used for washing dishes
  • wishful thinking — interpretation of facts, actions, words, etc., as one would like them to be rather than as they really are; imagining as actual what is not.
  • zagros mountains — a mountain range in S Iran: has Iran's main oilfields in its W central foothills. Highest peak: Zard Kuh, 4548 m (14 920 ft)
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