15-letter words containing t, u, n, g, s
- insight-fulness — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
- insulating tape — adhesive tape, impregnated with a moisture-repelling substance, used to insulate exposed electrical conductors
- insurance agent — sb who sells insurance policies
- interior-sprung — (esp of a mattress) containing springs
- inunderstanding — (obsolete) Devoid of understanding.
- italian sausage — salami
- langres plateau — a calcareous plateau of E France north of Dijon between the Seine and the Saône, reaching over 580 m (1900 ft): forms a watershed between rivers flowing to the Mediterranean and to the English Channel
- langston hughes — Charles Evans, 1862–1948, U.S. jurist and statesman: chief justice of the U.S. 1930–41.
- leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
- light in august — a novel (1932) by William Faulkner.
- linguistic area — a geographical area in which several languages sharing common features are spoken.
- linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
- listed building — (in Britain) a building officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration
- living quarters — accommodation
- lobster newburg — (sometimes lowercase) lobster cooked in a thick seasoned cream sauce made with sherry or brandy.
- lung specialist — doctor specializing in lung conditions
- lung transplant — a medical operation in which the lungs are taken out of someone who has died and are placed into another person's body
- luster painting — a method of decorating glazed pottery with metallic pigment, originated in Persia, popular from the 9th through the mid-19th centuries.
- magnesium light — the strongly actinic white light produced when magnesium is burned: used in photography, signaling, pyrotechnics, etc.
- magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
- mail user agent — (messaging) (MUA) The program that allows the user to compose and read electronic mail messages. The MUA provides the interface between the user and the Message Transfer Agent. Outgoing mail is eventually handed over to an MTA for delivery while the incoming messages are picked up from where the MTA left it (although MUA's running on single-user machines may pick up mail using POP). Popular MUAs for Unix include elm, mush, pine, and RMAIL.
- manual steering — Manual steering is steering in which the driver does all the work, without the help of mechanical power.
- metalinguistics — the study of the relation between languages and the other cultural systems they refer to.
- multilingualism — using or able to speak several or many languages with some facility.
- multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.
- natural english — Programming in normal, spoken English. [Sammet 1969, p.768].
- natural wastage — Natural wastage is the process of employees leaving their jobs because they want to retire or move to other jobs, rather than because their employer makes them leave.
- negro spiritual — a type of religious song originating among Black slaves in the American South
- neurolinguistic — pertaining to neurolinguistics
- nuclear testing — the process of carrying out a test on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc
- numismatologist — One versed in numismatology.
- nursing studies — the study of nursing
- obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
- opisthognathous — having receding jaws.
- outstandingness — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
- paralinguistics — the study of paralanguage.
- pergamentaceous — (esp of plants) resembling parchment, whether in texture or composition
- plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
- plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
- pulsejet engine — a jet engine equipped with valves that continuously open to admit air, then close during combustion, giving a pulsating thrust: used to power the V-1, a German buzz bomb, in World War II.
- quite something — a remarkable or noteworthy thing or person
- refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
- rhesus negative — relating to blood not containing Rhesus antigen D
- rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
- rigil kentaurus — Astronomy. Alpha Centauri.
- rogation sunday — the fifth Sunday after Easter; it sees the start of the supplications that are continued during the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
- saint augustine — Saint, a.d. 354–430, one of the Latin fathers in the early Christian Church; author; bishop of Hippo in N Africa.
- santa gertrudis — one of an American breed of beef cattle, developed from Shorthorn and Brahman stock for endurance to torrid temperatures.
- sausage turning — turning of members to resemble a continuous row of sausages flattened at the ends.
- savings account — a bank account on which interest is paid, traditionally one for which a bankbook is used to record deposits, withdrawals, and interest payments.