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14-letter words containing a, g, e, u, s, i

  • nyctaginaceous — belonging to the Nyctaginaceae, the four-o'clock family of plants.
  • oleaginousness — The state or condition of being oleaginous; oiliness, unctuousness.
  • osmoregulation — the process by which cells and simple organisms maintain fluid and electrolyte balance with their surroundings.
  • oversaturating — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
  • popular singer — a professional singer who specializes in popular songs.
  • prairie-grouse — prairie chicken.
  • pruning shears — small, sturdy shears used for pruning shrubbery.
  • pseudepigrapha — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
  • pseudepigraphy — the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
  • pugnaciousness — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
  • quasi-negative — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
  • quinquagesimal — of, relating to, or consisting of a set of 50
  • rabble-rousing — of, relating to, or characteristic of a rabble-rouser.
  • recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
  • reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
  • rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
  • 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.
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • security guard — a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
  • self-actuating — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
  • self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
  • septuagenarian — of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.
  • signature loan — a loan requiring no collateral.
  • signature tune — theme song (def 2).
  • soul-searching — the act or process of close and penetrating analysis of oneself, to determine one's true motives and sentiments.
  • 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 guinea — a republic in W equatorial Africa, comprising the mainland province of Río Muni and the island province of Bioko: formerly a Spanish colony. 10,824 sq. mi. (28,034 sq. km). Capital: Malabo.
  • 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
  • stage business — business (def 10).
  • stigmatiferous — (of a plant) having a stigma
  • 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
  • subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
  • submachine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • 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 opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
  • supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
  • supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
  • surpassingness — the fact of surpassing
  • take soundings — to try to find out people's opinions on a subject
  • the game is up — If you say the game is up, you mean that someone's secret plans or activities have been revealed and therefore must stop because they cannot succeed.
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