12-letter words containing a, g, u, s
- douglas-home — Alexander Frederick (Baron Home of the Hirsel) 1903–1995, British statesman and politician: prime minister 1963–64.
- dramaturgist — A person who composes a drama and directs its representation; a playwright.
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- dry tortugas — a group of eight coral islands at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico: part of Florida
- dysregulated — Simple past tense and past participle of dysregulate.
- dzhugashvili — Iosif Vissarionovich [Russian yaw-syif-vyi-suh-ryi-aw-nuh-vyich] /Russian ˈyɔ syɪf vyɪ sə ryɪˈɔ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Stalin, Joseph.
- eating house — a restaurant or other place where one can eat
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- emasculating — Present participle of emasculate.
- ensanguining — Present participle of ensanguine.
- eulogistical — Alternative form of eulogistic.
- exhaustingly — In an exhausting manner.
- expugnations — Plural form of expugnation.
- exsanguinate — (transitive) To kill by means of blood loss.
- exsanguinous — Alternative form of exsanguious.
- fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
- fergus falls — a city in W central Minnesota.
- figure skate — a shoe skate used in figure skating, especially one having a blade shorter than that of a racing skate, usually not extending beyond the toe or heel, and with notches or sawteeth on the curved forward edge.
- figure-skate — to take part in figure skating
- figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
- firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
- fissilingual — having a forked tongue
- flagitiously — In a flagitious manner.
- flying squad — a trained, mobile group of police officers, business executives, labor officials, or the like, capable of performing specialized tasks whenever or wherever sent, often for use in emergencies.
- foul-tasting — having a very unpleasant taste
- fund-raising — the act or process of raising funds, as for nonprofit organizations or for a political cause.
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- gaius marius — Gaius, c155–86 b.c, Roman general and consul: opponent of Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
- galeniferous — Of a mineral or deposit that contains galena.
- gallinaceous — pertaining to or resembling the domestic fowls.
- gallup polls — a representative sampling of public opinion or public awareness concerning a certain subject or issue.
- galusha grow — Galusha Aaron [guh-loo-shuh] /gəˈlu ʃə/ (Show IPA), 1822–1907, U.S. political leader: Speaker of the House 1861–63.
- gamopetalous — having the petals united.
- gamophyllous — having leaves united by their edges.
- gamosepalous — having the sepals united.
- gas bacillus — any of several pathogenic bacilli, especially of the genus Clostridium, that produce gas in infected tissue.
- gas equation — an equation that equates the product of the pressure and the volume of one mole of a gas to the product of its thermodynamic temperature and the gas constant. The equation is exact for an ideal gas and is a good approximation for real gases at low pressures
- gas-guzzling — an automobile that has low fuel efficiency, getting relatively few miles per gallon.
- gastrulation — the formation of a gastrula.
- gear cluster — an assembly of gears permanently attached to a shaft
- gelatigenous — (archaic) Producing or yielding gelatin.
- geraniaceous — belonging to the Geraniaceae, the geranium family of plants.
- gesticulated — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- gesticulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gesticulate.
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- get up steam — (of a ship, etc) to work up a sufficient head of steam in a boiler to drive an engine
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
- glamour puss — a person with an unusually attractive face.
- glamour-puss — a person with an unusually attractive face.