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12-letter words containing a, n, g, u, i, s

  • gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
  • galeniferous — Of a mineral or deposit that contains galena.
  • gallinaceous — pertaining to or resembling the domestic fowls.
  • 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.
  • gelatigenous — (archaic) Producing or yielding gelatin.
  • geraniaceous — belonging to the Geraniaceae, the geranium family of plants.
  • glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
  • graciousness — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
  • graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
  • gran turismo — (of an automobile) certified as conforming to the specifications, as fuel capacity and engine displacement, for a class of standard automobiles (Gran Turismo) qualified to engage in various types of competitions. Abbreviation: GTO.
  • granulations — Plural form of granulation.
  • gratulations — a feeling of joy.
  • graustarkian — of, like, or characteristic of colorful, implausible, highly melodramatic and romantic situations or circumstances
  • guardianista — a reader of the Guardian newspaper, seen as being typically left-wing, liberal, and politically correct
  • guardianship — the position and responsibilities of a guardian, especially toward a ward.
  • guinea grass — a grass, Panicum maximum, native to Africa, used for forage in warm regions of North and South America.
  • harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
  • housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • human rights — basic civil freedoms
  • hunt sabbing — the activity of sabotaging a hunt due to the belief that animals should not be harmed by humans
  • hunting case — a watchcase with a hinged cover to protect the crystal.
  • ignis fatuus — Also called friar's lantern, will-o'-the-wisp. a flitting phosphorescent light seen at night, chiefly over marshy ground, and believed to be due to spontaneous combustion of gas from decomposed organic matter.
  • illustrating — Present participle of illustrate.
  • ingurgitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingurgitate.
  • inosculating — Present participle of inosculate.
  • invert sugar — a mixture of the dextrorotatory forms of glucose and fructose, formed naturally in fruits and produced artificially in syrups or fondants by treating cane sugar with acids.
  • jumpstarting — Present participle of jumpstart.
  • laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
  • laguna hills — a city in SW California.
  • langoustines — Plural form of langoustine.
  • languishment — the act or state of languishing.
  • laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
  • laughing gas — nitrous oxide.
  • ligurian sea — a part of the Mediterranean between Corsica and the NW coast of Italy.
  • linguistical — (not in technical use) linguistic.
  • loganiaceous — belonging to the plant family Loganiaceae.
  • louise bogan — Louise, 1897–1970, U.S. poet.
  • ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
  • magnus hitch — a knot similar to a clove hitch but taking one more turn around the object to which the line is being bent; rolling hitch.
  • maneuverings — Plural form of maneuvering.
  • manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
  • 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.
  • menstruating — to undergo menstruation.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • mount pisgah — the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan
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