12-letter words containing a, g, u, i
- running gaff — the hoisting gaff.
- running gear — the working components of a motor-driven or steam-driven vehicle other than those used to develop or transmit power, as wheels, axles or springs, as distinguished from the body.
- running hand — script or calligraphy characterized by uniformly slanted letters that are written quickly and connected by long, continuous strokes of the pen.
- running head — a descriptive word, phrase, title, or the like, usually repeated at the top of each page of a book, periodical, etc.
- running mate — a candidate for an office linked with another and more important office, as for the vice-presidency.
- rush matting — a floor covering made from rushes (plants of the genus Juncus)
- sacrilegious — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- safe surfing — the practice of using security measures to protect one's computer while surfing the internet
- sago pudding — a sweet pudding made with sago and milk
- sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
- sanguicolous — living in the blood, as a parasite.
- sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
- sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
- sanguivorous — feeding on blood, as a bat or insect.
- saronic gulf — an inlet of the Aegean, on the SE coast of Greece, between Attica and the Peloponnesus. 50 miles (80 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.
- sauk village — a town in NE Illinois.
- saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
- scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
- scuba diving — deep-sea swimming
- semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
- septuagesima — the third Sunday before Lent.
- shijiazhuang — a province in NE China. 81,479 sq. mi. (211,031 sq. km). Capital: Shijiazhuang.
- simple sugar — monosaccharide.
- skating turn — a turn made by someone on roller or ice skates
- slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
- sofa surfing — (of a homeless person) the practice of staying temporarily with various friends and relatives while attempting to find permanent accommodation
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- spade guinea — a guinea decorated with a spade-shaped shield, coined during the reign of George III
- spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
- sporangiolum — a small sporangium
- spud-bashing — the task of peeling potatoes, given as a punishment
- spur gearing — a system of spur gears.
- squared ring — boxing ring.
- stag hunting — the act of hunting or chasing and killing stags
- standing cup — a tall decorative cup of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, having a raised cover.
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- steel guitar — an acoustic, handheld guitar having a metal resonator and producing a wailing, variable sound.
- stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
- storage unit — rented space to store items
- straight out — thoroughgoing: a straight-out Democrat.
- straight-out — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- strain gauge — Geology. a type of extensometer designed for geophysical use.
- studdingsail — a light sail, sometimes set outboard of either of the leeches of a square sail and extended by booms.
- studio glass — art glass produced by an independent artisan in the studio.
- submicrogram — containing or relating to a mass of less than one microgram
- sugar glider — a gliding possum, Petaurus breviceps, inhabiting open forests of New Guinea, Tasmania, and Australia.
- sugarcoating — the act or process of covering something with sugar.
- sugaring off — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- superglacial — on the surface of a glacier.
- supergravity — a hypothetical symmetry among groups of particles containing fermions and bosons, especially in theories of gravity (supergravity) that unify electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force with gravity into a single unified force.