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12-letter words containing e, g, u, r, i

  • reassuringly — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
  • recentrifuge — to subject (a liquid) to the action of a centrifuge again
  • recuperating — to recover from sickness or exhaustion; regain health or strength.
  • reed bunting — an Old World bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus, inhabiting marshy areas.
  • refurnishing — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
  • regulation t — (in the U.S.) a federal law governing the amount of credit that may be advanced by brokers and dealers to customers for the purchase of securities on margin.
  • regulation u — (in the U.S.) a federal law governing the amount of credit that may be advanced by a bank for the purchase of listed securities.
  • regurgitated — to give back or repeat, especially something not fully understood or assimilated: to regurgitate the teacher's lectures on the exam.
  • rejuvenating — making young again
  • reregulation — renewed regulation, the act or process of regulating again
  • rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
  • resoundingly — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
  • retail group — a group of companies under single ownership, which sell goods to individual customers
  • retrolingual — situated behind or near the base of the tongue.
  • rice pudding — dessert made from rice and milk
  • ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
  • rights issue — Finance; offering of new shares to existing holders
  • 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.
  • ruby wedding — a fortieth wedding anniversary
  • ruling elder — an elder in a Presbyterian church.
  • ruling grade — the steepest grade on a given stretch of track, which determines the maximum tonnage that can be hauled in a train having a given horsepower at a stated minimum speed.
  • running fire — a rapid discharge of firearms in succession by a line of soldiers
  • running gear — the working components of a motor-driven or steam-driven vehicle other than those used to develop or transmit power, as wheels, axles or springs, as distinguished from the body.
  • running head — a descriptive word, phrase, title, or the like, usually repeated at the top of each page of a book, periodical, etc.
  • running joke — a joke or humorous allusion used recurrently in a play, film, television skit, etc., for a cumulative comic effect.
  • running mate — a candidate for an office linked with another and more important office, as for the vice-presidency.
  • running pine — a ground pine, Lycopodium clavatum.
  • running shoe — trainer, sneaker
  • running text — the body of text in a newspaper, magazine, or the like, as distinguished from the heads, illustrations, etc.
  • running time — Movies. the length or duration, usually expressed in minutes, of a feature film: The running time of the average film is 90–100 minutes.
  • sacrilegious — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
  • safe surfing — the practice of using security measures to protect one's computer while surfing the internet
  • sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
  • saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
  • semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
  • setting rule — a metal strip used in the hand-setting of type in a composing stick to separate the line being set from the previous one
  • simple group — a group that has no normal subgroup except the group itself and the identity.
  • simple sugar — monosaccharide.
  • slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
  • sliding rule — (formerly) a slide rule.
  • slubberingly — in a slubbering or slovenly manner
  • slumberingly — in a slumbering manner
  • solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
  • spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
  • spermogonium — one of the cup-shaped or flask-shaped receptacles in which the spermatia of certain fungi and red algae are produced.
  • spirit guide — type of mystical guardian
  • spur gearing — a system of spur gears.
  • sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
  • squared ring — boxing ring.
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