12-letter words containing a, g, u, i
- astoundingly — capable of overwhelming with amazement; stunningly surprising.
- astroturfing — a PR tactic used in politics and advertising in which actors are paid to display overt and apparently spontaneous grassroots support for a particular product, policy, or event
- audiological — Of, or pertaining to, audiology, or the study of hearing.
- audiologists — Plural form of audiologist.
- augmentation — the act of augmenting or the state of being augmented
- augmentative — tending or able to augment
- auscultating — Present participle of auscultate.
- autographing — Present participle of autograph.
- autoignition — Automotive. the spontaneous ignition of fuel when introduced into the combustion chamber of an internal-combustion engine, as a result either of glowing carbon in the chamber or of the heat of compression.
- automatizing — Present participle of automatize.
- automobiling — (dated) present participle of automobile.
- backup light — Backup lights are the white lights on the back of a vehicle that shine when the vehicle moves backward.
- ball turning — the turning of arms or legs on furniture to make them resemble a continuous row of balls.
- base jumping — a sport in which a participant parachutes from any of a variety of fixed objects such as high buildings, cliffs, etc
- bathing suit — A bathing suit is a piece of clothing which people wear when they go swimming.
- bearskin rug — the pelt of a bear, used as a rug
- beleaguering — to surround with military forces.
- bella figura — a good impression; fine appearance
- bermuda high — a subtropical high centered near Bermuda.
- bilingualism — Bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages equally well.
- bilinguality — the ability to speak two languages fluently.
- black-figure — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the 7th and 6th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by silhouetted figures painted in black slip on a red clay body, details incised into the design, and a two-dimensional structure of form and space.
- blues guitar — blues guitar music
- bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
- boar-hunting — the practice of hunting wild boars
- boarding out — the local-authority practice of placing a client in a foster family or voluntary establishment and paying for it
- boatbuilding — Boatbuilding is the craft or industry of making boats.
- bougainville — an island in the W Pacific, in Papua New Guinea: the largest of the Solomon Islands: unilaterally declared independence in 1990; occupied by government troops in 1992, and granted autonomy in 2001. Chief town: Kieta. Area: 10 049 sq km (3880 sq miles)
- boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- bring around — If you bring someone around when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
- buccaneering — If you describe someone as buccaneering, you mean that they enjoy being involved in risky or even dishonest activities, especially in order to make money.
- buccolingual — of or relating to the cheek and tongue.
- bull-baiting — the setting of dogs on a chained or confined bull, formerly a popular pastime in England
- bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
- bur marigold — any plant of the genus Bidens that has yellow flowers and pointed fruits that cling to fur and clothing: family Asteraceae (composites)
- burning ghat — a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.
- bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
- calumniating — Present participle of calumniate.
- camouflaging — Present participle of camouflage.
- capitulating — Present participle of capitulate.
- card surfing — a form of cash-card fraud in which one person watches another using a cash dispenser, notes his or her personal identification number, and, after an accomplice has stolen the card, uses the card to withdraw cash
- caricaturing — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
- caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
- centrifugate — the denser of the centrifuged materials.
- changchiakou — Zhangjiakou
- chauffeuring — Present participle of chauffeur.
- chincoteague — a town on a small island in a lagoon (Chincoteague Bay) in E Virginia: annual wild pony roundup.
- chinhuangtao — a seaport in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Bohai.
- cip language — language> (CIP-L, Computer-aided Intuition-guided Programming Language) A wide-spectrum language for incremental program transformation. There are ALGOL- and Pascal-like variants.