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

  • sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
  • slubberdegullion — a slovenly or worthless person
  • slugging average — a measure of the effectiveness of a batter in making base hits, obtained by dividing the total bases reached by hitting by the number of official times at bat and carrying out the result to three decimal places. A batter making 275 total bases in 500 times at bat has a slugging average of .550.
  • 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).
  • stage production — a play or show which is performed on stage
  • statutory change — a change in the law
  • stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
  • stomach-churning — causing nausea.
  • 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.
  • sugar plantation — a large area of land where sugar is grown
  • sulfanilyl group — the para form of the group C 6 H 6 NO 2 S–, derived from sulfanilic acid.
  • 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
  • superior general — the superior of an order or congregation.
  • supporting actor — performer: not lead
  • suprarenal gland — adrenal gland.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 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 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
  • thermoregulation — the regulation of body temperature.
  • thinking through — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
  • tongue depressor — a broad, thin piece of wood used by doctors to hold down the patient's tongue during an examination of the mouth and throat.
  • 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.
  • train of thought — sequence of ideas
  • 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)
  • triangular trade — American History. a pattern of colonial commerce in which slaves were bought on the African Gold Coast with New England rum and then traded in the West Indies for sugar or molasses, which was brought back to New England to be manufactured into rum.
  • trucking company — a company that transports goods by lorry
  • 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.
  • uncompromisingly — not admitting of compromise or adjustment of differences; making no concessions; inaccessible to flexible bargaining; unyielding: an uncompromising attitude.
  • under one's wing — in one's care or tutelage
  • under the plough — If an area of land is under the plough, it is used for growing crops. If land is brought or put under the plough, it is ploughed for the first time and is then used for growing crops.
  • undiscriminating — differentiating; analytical.
  • unrealized gains — Unrealized gains are gains from the increase in value of an asset that you still own.
  • upper lough erne — a lough in Northern Ireland, fed by the river Erne
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