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13-letter words containing u, s, a, g, e

  • quadragesimal — of, relating to, or suitable for Lent; Lenten.
  • quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
  • quaking aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • quinquagesima — the Sunday before Lent; Shrove Sunday.
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • regiomontanus — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
  • roger-ducasse — Jean Jules Amable [zhahn zhyl a-ma-bluh] /ʒɑ̃ ʒül aˈma blə/ (Show IPA), 1873–1954, French composer.
  • rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
  • rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
  • rough passage — a stormy sea journey
  • run sb ragged — If someone runs you ragged, they make you do so much that you become exhausted.
  • saint-gaudens — Augustus, 1848–1907, U.S. sculptor, born in Ireland.
  • sales figures — the amount of sales of something within a particular time frame
  • saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
  • scavenge pump — an oil pump used in some internal-combustion engines to return oil from the crankcase to the oil tank
  • self-assuming — taking too much for granted; presumptuous.
  • set at naught — to have disregard or scorn for; disdain
  • shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • sign language — Also called sign. any of several visual-gestural systems of communication, especially employing manual gestures, as used among deaf people.
  • single status — a national agreement that aims to avoid unfairness in pay and reward arrangements for employees and to ensure harmonisation of conditions in comparable posts
  • single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
  • skunk cabbage — a low, fetid, broad-leaved North American plant, Symplocarpus foetidus, of the arum family, having a brownish-purple and green mottled spathe surrounding a stout spadix, growing in moist ground.
  • slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
  • solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
  • soluble glass — sodium silicate.
  • sounding lead — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
  • south georgia — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
  • speaking tube — a tube for conveying the voice over a somewhat limited distance, as from one part of a building or ship to another.
  • spermatangium — the organ that produces spermatia in red algae.
  • spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
  • spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
  • spurge laurel — a European thymelaeaceous evergreen shrub, Daphne laureola, with glossy leaves and small green flowers
  • squanderingly — in a squandering manner
  • square-rigged — having square sails as the principal sails.
  • square-rigger — having square sails as the principal sails.
  • squirrel cage — a cage containing a cylindrical framework that is rotated by a squirrel or other small animal running inside of it.
  • st. augustine — Saint, a.d. 354–430, one of the Latin fathers in the early Christian Church; author; bishop of Hippo in N Africa.
  • steganopodous — belonging to the Stegandopodes or having all four toes webbed together
  • sterculia gum — karaya gum.
  • stereoregular — pertaining to stereochemical regularity or having repeating units in a sequential configuration
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • strange quark — a quark having electric charge −1/3 times the elementary charge and strangeness −1; it is more massive than the up and down quarks.
  • student grant — a grant of money awarded to somebody to fund their studying at a university or college
  • sub-aggregate — formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined: the aggregate amount of indebtedness.
  • subassemblage — a group of persons or things gathered or collected; an assembly; collection; aggregate.
  • subastringent — slightly astringent.
  • subcategorize — to split into subcategories
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