12-letter words containing c, o, u, g
- orange juice — fruit drink: nectar of orange
- outbalancing — Present participle of outbalance.
- outcompeting — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
- outcroppings — Plural form of outcropping.
- outpouchings — Plural form of outpouching.
- overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
- package tour — a planned tour in which one fee is charged for all expenses: offering package tours of the chateau country.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- posing pouch — a thong that emphasizes the genitals
- postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
- pronouncings — utterances, esp of an official or judgmental nature
- public goods — services such as national defence, law enforcement, and road building, that are for the benefit of, and available to, all members of the public
- pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- quasilogical — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- quindecagons — Plural form of quindecagon.
- rock bunting — a seed-eating songbird, Emberiza cia
- rockhounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks
- rough collie — a breed of long-haired collie with a coarse black-and-white or black, tan, and white coat, thicker around its neck and shoulders.
- rough-voiced — having a harsh or grating voice: a rough-voiced barker.
- sacrilegious — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- sanguicolous — living in the blood, as a parasite.
- sarcophagous — carnivorous.
- saronic gulf — an inlet of the Aegean, on the SE coast of Greece, between Attica and the Peloponnesus. 50 miles (80 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.
- sausage code — (humour, programming) Code which, once you know the details of how it's made, you'll never want to use again.
- scatophagous — feeding on dung or excrement
- schizogenous — schizogenetic.
- schizogonous — pertaining to or reproducing by schizogony.
- scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
- second-guess — to use hindsight in criticizing or correcting.
- secretagogue — a substance or situation that promotes secretion.
- shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- spongicolous — relating to the skeleton of some marine animals
- stegocarpous — (of a moss) belonging to the division Stegocarpi, having an operculate capsule
- stringcourse — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- submicrogram — containing or relating to a mass of less than one microgram
- sugar-coated — Sugar-coated food is covered with a sweet substance made of sugar.
- sugarcoating — the act or process of covering something with sugar.
- supercooling — to cool (a liquid) below its freezing point without producing solidification or crystallization; undercool.
- superorganic — of or relating to the structure of cultural elements within society conceived as independent of and superior to the individual members of society.
- tautological — needless repetition of an idea, especially in words other than those of the immediate context, without imparting additional force or clearness, as in “widow woman.”.
- tongue cover — a loose-leaf binding having a flap of the cover concealing the binding posts.
- touch and go — precarious situation
- touch ground — (of a ship) to strike the sea bed
- touch-and-go — risky; precarious: a touch-and-go descent down the mountain.
- touch-typing — the act of typing without having to look at the keys of the typewriter or computer keyboard
- tough cookie — If you say that someone is a tough cookie, you mean that they have a strong and determined character.
- turbo-charge — to equip (an internal-combustion engine) with a turbocharger.