12-letter words containing g, e, i, r, t, u
- numerologist — A practitioner of numerology.
- oriental rug — a rug or carpet woven usually in Asia and characterized by hand-knotted pile.
- out-marriage — a marriage to someone outside one's ethnic group
- outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- perpetuating — to make perpetual.
- pipe routing — Pipe routing is the planning of pipeline layout, which includes considerations of neatness, economy, and safety.
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- puppeteering — a person who manipulates puppets, as in a puppet show.
- quarterlight — A small, pivoted, normally triangular, car window that acts as a vent.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- running mate — a candidate for an office linked with another and more important office, as for the vice-presidency.
- 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.
- saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
- 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
- slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
- spirit guide — type of mystical guardian
- sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- steel guitar — an acoustic, handheld guitar having a metal resonator and producing a wailing, variable sound.
- stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
- stick figure — a diagrammatic drawing representing a human or animal, usually made with one line each for the torso and appendages, and often a circle for the head.
- storage unit — rented space to store items
- strain gauge — Geology. a type of extensometer designed for geophysical use.
- 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.
- summerweight — (of clothes) suitable in weight for wear in the summer; relatively light
- supergravity — a hypothetical symmetry among groups of particles containing fermions and bosons, especially in theories of gravity (supergravity) that unify electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force with gravity into a single unified force.
- superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
- the big four — a small powerful group, as of banks, companies, etc, esp the four largest banks in Britain (Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, and NatWest)
- through-line — a theme or idea that runs from the beginning to the end of a book, film, etc
- to ring true — If a statement rings true, it seems to be true or genuine. If it rings hollow, it does not seem to be true or genuine.
- triple fugue — a fugue with a subject and two countersubjects developed simultaneously.
- trismegistus — Hermes Trismegistus.
- trunk engine — an engine having a trunk piston or pistons.
- truss bridge — a bridge in which the loads are supported by trusses.
- turbo engine — an engine containing a turbocharger