12-letter words containing d, o, g, u, a
- outstandings — Outstanding amounts; unpaid debts.
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
- prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
- pseudography — writing that does not follow conventional spelling or usage
- quindecagons — Plural form of quindecagon.
- read-through — reading (def 1).
- road haulage — transport of goods by road
- rogue trader — A rogue trader is an employee of a financial institution who carries out business without the knowledge or approval of his or her bosses.
- rouge dragon — a pursuivant at the English college of arms
- sago pudding — a sweet pudding made with sago and milk
- sausage code — (humour, programming) Code which, once you know the details of how it's made, you'll never want to use again.
- scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
- shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
- shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
- 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
- studio glass — art glass produced by an independent artisan in the studio.
- sugar-coated — Sugar-coated food is covered with a sweet substance made of sugar.
- surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
- thought-read — to read someone's mind or psychically know what someone's thoughts are
- tongue-blade — a broad, thin piece of wood used by doctors to hold down the patient's tongue during an examination of the mouth and throat.
- touch and go — precarious situation
- touch-and-go — risky; precarious: a touch-and-go descent down the mountain.
- turbocharged — with additional power from turbine
- uncatalogued — not added to or detailed in a catalogue
- uncoagulated — Obsolete. coagulated.
- unconjugated — 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.”.
- undercoating — a coat or jacket worn under another.
- unglamorized — not glamorized
- unnegotiated — to deal or bargain with another or others, as in the preparation of a treaty or contract or in preliminaries to a business deal.
- unoriginated — not originated
- unoxygenated — not enriched with oxygen
- unprogrammed — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- up and doing — busy; active
- waste ground — an empty piece of land
- younger edda — either of two old Icelandic literary works, one a collection of poems on mythical and religious subjects (or) erroneously attributed to Saemund Sigfusson (c1055–1133), the other a collection of ancient Scandinavian myths and legends, rules and theories of versification, poems, etc. (or) compiled and written in part by Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241).
- younger hand — (in piquet and similar card games) the dealer
- younghusband — Sir Francis Edward. 1863–1942, British explorer, mainly of N India and Tibet. He used military force to compel the Dalai Lama to sign (1904) a trade agreement with Britain