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

  • ivy geranium — a trailing geranium, Pelargonium peltatum, of southern Africa, having a fleshy stem that becomes woody with age, glossy, ivy-shaped leaves, and clusters of flowers ranging from white to deep rose in color.
  • johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
  • judgment day — the day of the Last Judgment; doomsday.
  • judgmentally — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
  • jugular vein — vein that carries blood from head to heart
  • jumping bean — the seed of any of certain Mexican plants of the genera Sebastiania and Sapium, of the spurge family: the movements of a moth larva inside the seed cause it to move about or jump.
  • jumping hare — springhare.
  • k'ang yu-wei — 1858–1927, Chinese scholar and reformer.
  • kanchenjunga — a mountain in S Asia, between NE India and Nepal, in the E Himalayas: third highest in the world. 28,169 feet (8586 meters).
  • keratogenous — producing horn or a horny substance.
  • keraunograph — an instrument for recording thunderstorms by detecting the radio waves generated
  • kim dae jung — 1925–2009, president of South Korea 1998–2003.
  • kluge around — (jargon)   To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a kluge. Compare workaround.
  • laguna beach — a town in S California.
  • lake managua — a lake in W Nicaragua: drains into Lake Nicaragua by the Tipitapa River. Length: 61 km (38 miles). Width: about 26 km (16 miles)
  • langoustines — Plural form of langoustine.
  • languageless — without language or a language
  • langue d'oil — the Romance language of medieval northern France: developed into modern French.
  • 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.
  • laser-guided — (of a missile, etc) guided with the use of a laser beam
  • laue diagram — a diffraction pattern used to study crystal structure, consisting of symmetrically arranged spots obtained when a beam of x-rays, electrons, or neutrons is passed through a thin crystal and exposes a photographic plate.
  • lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
  • leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
  • league match — a match played between teams in a league (as opposed to an international game)
  • league table — competitive ranking
  • leakage-flux — an act of leaking; leak.
  • left luggage — baggage stored temporarily
  • legislatures — a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
  • lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
  • ligurian sea — a part of the Mediterranean between Corsica and the NW coast of Italy.
  • lingua geral — a lingua franca based on Tupi and spoken in the Amazon basin of South America.
  • loganiaceous — belonging to the plant family Loganiaceae.
  • logodaedalus — a person who uses words with skill or cunning
  • long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
  • longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
  • louise bogan — Louise, 1897–1970, U.S. poet.
  • lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
  • ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
  • lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
  • luggage rack — shelf for baggage on a train
  • magic bullet — something that cures or remedies without causing harmful side effects: So far there is no magic bullet for economic woes.
  • magic number — the atomic number or neutron number of an exceptionally stable nuclide.
  • magic square — a square containing integers arranged in an equal number of rows and columns so that the sum of the integers in any row, column, or diagonal is the same.
  • magnetopause — the boundary between the earth's magnetosphere and interplanetary space, about 40,000 miles (65,000 km) above the earth, marked by an abrupt decrease in the earth's magnetic induction.
  • magniloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful.
  • mailing tube — an elongated cylinder of cardboard, used for mailing rolled-up papers, magazines, etc.
  • major league — The major leagues are groups of professional sports teams that compete against each other, especially in American baseball.
  • major-league — Sports. of, relating to, or characteristic of the major leagues.
  • majorleaguer — either of the two main professional baseball leagues in the U.S.
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