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12-letter words containing a, g, u, r

  • nugatoriness — Quality of being nugatory.
  • nulligravida — A female who has never been pregnant.
  • numbers game — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
  • oberammergau — a village in S Germany, SW of Munich: famous for the passion play performed there every ten years.
  • old guardism — political conservatism.
  • oral surgery — the branch of dentistry or of surgery dealing with the surgical treatment or repair of various conditions of the mouth or jaws.
  • orange juice — fruit drink: nectar of orange
  • oriental rug — a rug or carpet woven usually in Asia and characterized by hand-knotted pile.
  • original gum — See o.g (def 1).
  • ornithogalum — any plant of the genus Ornithogalum
  • out-marriage — a marriage to someone outside one's ethnic group
  • outgeneraled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
  • outmigration — to leave a region, community, etc., to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory: People are no longer out-migrating from the South in such large numbers.
  • outrageously — In an outrageous manner; to an outrageous degree.
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
  • overfatigued — excessively fatigued
  • overregulate — to apply rules and regulations excessively to (something)
  • oversanguine — too optimistic
  • package tour — a planned tour in which one fee is charged for all expenses: offering package tours of the chateau country.
  • palace guard — the security force protecting a palace.
  • paragnathous — (of certain vertebrates) having the upper and lower jaws of equal length
  • paraguay tea — maté.
  • paralanguage — vocal features that accompany speech and contribute to communication but are not generally considered to be part of the language system, as vocal quality, loudness, and tempo: sometimes also including facial expressions and gestures.
  • parent group — a large organization that owns a number of smaller separate commercial or industrial firms
  • paring gouge — a woodworker's gouge having the bezel on the concave face.
  • parlour game — A parlour game is a game that is played indoors by families or at parties, for example a guessing game.
  • pass through — an act of passing.
  • pass-through — a windowlike opening, as one for passing food or dishes between a kitchen and a dining area.
  • pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • perpetuating — to make perpetual.
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • petrol gauge — a gauge that indicates the amount of petrol left in the tank of a vehicle
  • photogravure — any of various processes, based on photography, by which an intaglio engraving is formed on a metal plate, from which ink reproductions are made.
  • pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
  • play through — to pass another foursome or group with their permission, while playing a round of golf
  • pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
  • popular song — a song that is written to have an immediate and wide appeal and is usually popular for only a short time, but that sometimes is of a sufficiently high quality to become part of the permanent repertoire of popular music and jazz. Compare standard (def 12).
  • pork sausage — a sausage made with pork
  • postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
  • postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
  • pre-language — a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language; the Yiddish language.
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • preinaugural — occurring before an inauguration
  • prelingually — in a prelingual manner
  • preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
  • prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
  • pro-suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
  • producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
  • progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
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