14-letter words containing u, g, a, r, i
- radioautograph — autoradiograph.
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- reducing agent — a substance that causes another substance to undergo reduction and that is oxidized in the process.
- reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
- repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
- rolling launch — the process of introducing a new product into a market gradually
- route flapping — flapping router
- rude awakening — If you have a rude awakening, you are suddenly made aware of an unpleasant fact.
- run up against — If you run up against problems, you suddenly begin to experience them.
- running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
- running casing — Running casing is the process of screwing together pieces of pipe on a rig floor and lowering them into a hole.
- rutting season — a recurrent period of sexual excitement and reproductive activity in certain male ruminants, such as the deer, that corresponds to the period of oestrus in females
- sacrilegiously — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
- saxifragaceous — belonging to the plant family Saxifragaceae.
- security guard — a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
- septuagenarian — of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.
- shooting guard — the player responsible for attempting long-range shots
- signature loan — a loan requiring no collateral.
- signature tune — theme song (def 2).
- singular point — a point at which a given function of a complex variable has no derivative but of which every neighborhood contains points at which the function has derivatives.
- soul-searching — the act or process of close and penetrating analysis of oneself, to determine one's true motives and sentiments.
- sounding board — a thin, resonant plate of wood forming part of a musical instrument, and so placed as to enhance the power and quality of the tone.
- south georgian — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
- spanish guitar — acoustic guitar.
- spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
- square-bashing — drill on a barrack square
- square-dancing — the activity of taking part in a square dance
- stigmatiferous — (of a plant) having a stigma
- straight flush — a sequence of five consecutive cards of the same suit.
- straighten out — make straighter
- string quartet — a musical composition, usually in three or four movements, for four stringed instruments, typically two violins, viola, and cello.
- 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.
- subaggregation — a subtotalling
- subcontracting — outsourcing of contract work
- subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
- sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
- sugar refinery — place where sugar is processed
- sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
- sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
- sunday trading — the fact of opening a shop or business on a Sunday
- supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
- supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
- surgical shock — a state of shock that can occur during or after surgery
- surpassingness — the fact of surpassing
- thaumaturgical — pertaining to a thaumaturge or to thaumaturgy.
- thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
- time signature — a numerical or other indication at the beginning of a piece showing the meter.
- 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