12-letter words containing a, g, u, s
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- buffel grass — grass used for pasture in Africa, India, and Australia
- bush leaguer — Also called busher. Baseball. a player in a minor league. an incompetent player, as one who behaves or plays as if he or she belonged in a minor league.
- bush-leaguer — (in baseball) someone who plays in a minor league
- bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
- cape agulhas — a headland in South Africa, the southernmost point of the African continent
- caper spurge — a spurge, Euphorbia lathyris, producing latex that is considered a possible source of crude oil and gasoline.
- 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
- carpophagous — feeding on fruit
- caster sugar — Caster sugar is white sugar that has been ground into fine grains. It is used in cooking.
- castor sugar — finely ground or powdered sugar.
- caught short — having a sudden need to urinate or defecate
- chambersburg — a city in central Pennsylvania.
- change purse — A change purse is a very small bag that people, especially women, keep their money in.
- charge nurse — A charge nurse is a nurse who is in charge of a hospital ward.
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
- chasmogamous — pertaining to or having pollination occur in a fully opened flower.
- chaulmoogras — Plural form of chaulmoogra.
- clangorously — In a clangorous manner; ringingly.
- class a drug — (in Britain) any of the most dangerous group of controlled drugs, including heroin, cocaine, and MDMA
- class b drug — (in Britain) any of the second most dangerous group of controlled drugs, including amphetamine
- class c drug — (in Britain) any of the least dangerous group of controlled drugs, including temazepam and cannabis
- conjugations — Plural form of conjugation.
- consanguined — Of kindred blood; related.
- consummating — Present participle of consummate.
- contagiously — capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object: contagious diseases.
- coprophagous — (esp of certain beetles) feeding on dung
- coral fungus — any of a group of brightly colored fungi having erect, branching fruiting bodies that resemble coral.
- corrugations — the act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated.
- corruscating — Present participle of corruscate.
- courageously — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
- cryosurgical — of or relating to cryosurgery
- cryptogamous — Of or pertaining to the cryptogams.
- curate's egg — something that has both good and bad parts
- daughterless — Without a daughter.
- dauntingness — to overcome with fear; intimidate: to daunt one's adversaries.
- dehumanising — Present participle of dehumanise.
- desquamating — Present participle of desquamate.
- diégo-suarez — a seaport on N Madagascar.
- disambiguate — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- disanalogous — not analogous
- discouraging — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- disculpating — Present participle of disculpate.
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- disregardful — neglectful; careless.
- distraughtly — distracted; deeply agitated.
- dodecagynous — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- douglas hurd — a third-class university degree