12-letter words containing g, e, n, i, u
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
- oversanguine — too optimistic
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- paring gouge — a woodworker's gouge having the bezel on the concave face.
- 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.
- paying guest — lodger
- penguin suit — a man's formal evening suit
- perpetuating — to make perpetual.
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
- pipe routing — Pipe routing is the planning of pipeline layout, which includes considerations of neatness, economy, and safety.
- plunge basin — a cavity at the base of a falls or cataract, formed by the action of the falling water.
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- preinaugural — occurring before an inauguration
- prelingually — in a prelingual manner
- pudding rice — a type of short-grained rice that is suitable for making into a rice pudding
- pudding-face — a human face that is big and fat and resembles a pudding
- pudding-head — a stupid person
- puddingstone — any conglomerate rock having dark-colored, rounded pebbles that are embedded in a light-colored, fine-grained matrix
- puppeteering — a person who manipulates puppets, as in a puppet show.
- pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
- question tag — interrogative ending to a sentence
- questionings — Plural form of questioning.
- quilting bee — a social gathering at which the participants make quilts.
- quindecagons — Plural form of quindecagon.
- rag business — the garment, clothing, or fashion industry.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.