12-letter words containing g, l, u, t
- retrolingual — situated behind or near the base of the tongue.
- rheumatology — the study and treatment of rheumatic diseases.
- rugby tackle — A rugby tackle is a way of making someone fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.
- ruminatingly — in a ruminating manner
- sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
- sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
- saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
- sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- sell-through — quantity of direct sales made
- 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
- shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
- silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- sitting bull — 1834–90, American Indian warrior: leader of the Hunkpapa; victor at Little Bighorn, 1876.
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
- slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
- slip through — be undetected
- slopping out — In prisons where prisoners have to use buckets as toilets, slopping out is the practice in which they empty the buckets.
- sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
- sprightfully — in a sprightful manner
- sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
- steel guitar — an acoustic, handheld guitar having a metal resonator and producing a wailing, variable sound.
- struggle bus — a situation, task, etc., that seems difficult or frustrating: With no sleep last night, I’ll be on the struggle bus today.
- stud welding — the semiautomatic welding of a stud or similar piece of metal to a flat part, usually by means of an electric arc
- studdingsail — a light sail, sometimes set outboard of either of the leeches of a square sail and extended by booms.
- studio glass — art glass produced by an independent artisan in the studio.
- stunt flying — the activity or practice of performing stunts in an aeroplane, such as special turns, etc, in the air
- stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- suggestively — that suggests; referring to other thoughts, persons, etc.: His recommendation was suggestive of his boss's thinking.
- supportingly — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- supraglottal — situated above the glottis
- talk through — guide through: a procedure, etc.
- 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.”.
- telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
- thaumatology — the study or description of miracles.
- the struggle — the radical and armed opposition to apartheid, esp by the military wings of the ANC and the PAC
- the-sea-gull — a play (1896) by Anton Chekhov.
- through-line — a theme or idea that runs from the beginning to the end of a book, film, etc
- thymus gland — a ductless, butterfly-shaped gland lying at the base of the neck, formed mostly of lymphatic tissue and aiding in the production of T cells of the immune system: after puberty, the lymphatic tissue gradually degenerates.
- 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.
- traumatology — a branch of surgery dealing with major wounds caused by accidents or violence.
- triple fugue — a fugue with a subject and two countersubjects developed simultaneously.
- tumbler gear — a transmission having gears actuated by a tumbler.
- tumbling box — a box, pivoted at two corners, used in the manner of a tumbling barrel.
- turbo prolog — A strongly typed Prolog-like logic programming language. 1986. It has user-defined domains. Programs are arranged in sections: DOMAINS, CLAUSES, PREDICATES, DATABASE and GOAL. It is currently known as PDC Prolog and is distributed by Prolog Development Center, Atlanta +1 404 873 1366. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- two-pin plug — a plug that has two pins for inserting into a socket
- unapologetic — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
- uncatalogued — not added to or detailed in a catalogue
- uncoagulated — Obsolete. coagulated.