12-letter words containing a, g, u, r
- unstaggering — tending to stagger or overwhelm: a staggering amount of money required in the initial investment.
- untargetable — an object, usually marked with concentric circles, to be aimed at in shooting practice or contests.
- unvariegated — varied; diversified; diverse.
- unwaveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- unwearyingly — in an unwearying manner
- up a gumtree — in a very awkward position; in difficulties
- up for grabs — to seize suddenly or quickly; snatch; clutch: He grabbed me by the collar.
- upright bass — double bass
- urban blight — deterioration of property in centre of city
- urban legend — a modern story of obscure origin and with little or no supporting evidence that spreads spontaneously in varying forms and often has elements of humor, moralizing, or horror: Are there alligators living in the New York City sewer system, or is that just an urban legend?
- urbanologist — a sociologist specializing in urban life and problems
- urinogenital — genitourinary.
- vainglorious — filled with or given to vainglory: a vainglorious actor.
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- visual range — Meteorology. visibility (def 3).
- vulgar latin — popular Latin, as distinguished from literary or standard Latin, especially those spoken forms of Latin from which the Romance languages developed. Abbreviation: VL.
- waking hours — Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.
- walk through — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
- walk-through — Theater, Television. a rehearsal in which physical action is combined with reading the lines of a play. a perfunctory performance of a script.
- walking tour — a tour on which you walk rather than using transport
- walkthroughs — Plural form of walkthrough.
- waste ground — an empty piece of land
- water bouget — (formerly) a leather bag suspended at each end of a pole or yoke and used for carrying water.
- water-budget — (formerly) a leather bag suspended at each end of a pole or yoke and used for carrying water.
- well-guarded — cautious; careful; prudent: to be guarded in one's speech.
- williamsburg — a city in SE Virginia: colonial capital of Virginia; now restored to its original pre-Revolutionary style.
- wing formula — a numerical representation of the relative lengths of the primary feathers of a bird's wing, used in identifying similar species, as flycatchers.
- yogurt-maker — a machine for making yogurt
- younger edda — either of two old Icelandic literary works, one a collection of poems on mythical and religious subjects (or) erroneously attributed to Saemund Sigfusson (c1055–1133), the other a collection of ancient Scandinavian myths and legends, rules and theories of versification, poems, etc. (or) compiled and written in part by Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241).
- younger hand — (in piquet and similar card games) the dealer
- yuri gagarin — Yuri Alekseyevich [yoo r-ee al-ik-sey-uh-vich;; Russian yoo-ryi uh-lyi-ksye-yi-vyich] /ˈyʊər i ˌæl ɪkˈseɪ ə vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈyu ryɪ ʌ lyɪˈksyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1934–68, Russian astronaut: first human being to make an orbital space flight (1961).