12-letter words containing a, m, u, g, s
- masquerading — a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes.
- masturbating — Present participle of masturbate.
- megachurches — Plural form of megachurch.
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
- menstruating — to undergo menstruation.
- mesogastrium — the mesentery of the embryonic stomach.
- mesognathous — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
- message unit — a measure of the duration of and distance covered by local telephone calls, used by telephone companies as a basis for assessing service charges.
- metagnathous — Ornithology. having the tips of the mandibles crossed, as the crossbills.
- metallurgist — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- microphagous — (of an animal) feeding on small particles of food
- misconjugate — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
- misfeaturing — distorting the features
- monogamously — In a monogamous manner.
- mount pisgah — the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan
- mucilaginous — of, relating to, or secreting mucilage.
- multicasting — the act or process of a person or thing that casts.
- multitasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- museological — Pertaining to museology.
- mutable sign — any of the four astrological signs, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, or Pisces, that are grouped together because of their placement at the end of the seasons and characterized by the attribute of adaptability to circumstances.
- nonambiguous — not ambiguous, clear
- nonglamorous — not glamorous
- 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.
- nutmeg state — Connecticut (used as a nickname).
- old guardism — political conservatism.
- plumbaginous — containing graphite.
- progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
- quadragesima — the first Sunday in Lent.
- rummage sale — a sale of miscellaneous articles, old or new, as items contributed to raise money for charity, of unclaimed goods at a wharf or warehouse, or of odds and ends of merchandise at a shop.
- rush matting — a floor covering made from rushes (plants of the genus Juncus)
- sausage meat — minced and processed pork
- semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
- septuagesima — the third Sunday before Lent.
- simple sugar — monosaccharide.
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
- sporangiolum — a small sporangium
- sub-mortgage — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
- submicrogram — containing or relating to a mass of less than one microgram
- tasting menu — a fixed-price restaurant meal or menu consisting of small portions of numerous dishes: We ordered the 6-course tasting menu for $125.
- thymus gland — a ductless, butterfly-shaped gland lying at the base of the neck, formed mostly of lymphatic tissue and aiding in the production of T cells of the immune system: after puberty, the lymphatic tissue gradually degenerates.
- traumatising — Pathology. to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.
- tsunamigenic — producing a tsunami or tsunamis
- unassumingly — modest; unpretentious.
- unglamourous — full of glamour; charmingly or fascinatingly attractive, especially in a mysterious or magical way.
- unmoralising — not moralising
- williamsburg — a city in SE Virginia: colonial capital of Virginia; now restored to its original pre-Revolutionary style.