12-letter words containing g, n, u
- 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.
- rush matting — a floor covering made from rushes (plants of the genus Juncus)
- rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
- safe surfing — the practice of using security measures to protect one's computer while surfing the internet
- sago pudding — a sweet pudding made with sago and milk
- sanguicolous — living in the blood, as a parasite.
- sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
- sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
- sanguivorous — feeding on blood, as a bat or insect.
- saronic gulf — an inlet of the Aegean, on the SE coast of Greece, between Attica and the Peloponnesus. 50 miles (80 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.
- saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
- schizogenous — schizogenetic.
- schizogonous — pertaining to or reproducing by schizogony.
- scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
- scrutinizing — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- scuba diving — deep-sea swimming
- sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
- second-guess — to use hindsight in criticizing or correcting.
- 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
- sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
- shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
- shelf fungus — bracket fungus
- shijiazhuang — a province in NE China. 81,479 sq. mi. (211,031 sq. km). Capital: Shijiazhuang.
- shipbuilding — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- show jumping — sport: horseriding event
- sight unseen — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- sigismund ii — called Sigismund Augustus. 1520–72, king of Poland (1548–72), who united Poland, Lithuania, and their dependencies by the Union of Lublin (1569)
- 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.
- single-issue — pertaining or devoted to one public issue only, especially a political one: single-issue voters.
- sinking fund — a fund to extinguish an indebtedness, usually a bond issue.
- sitting bull — 1834–90, American Indian warrior: leader of the Hunkpapa; victor at Little Bighorn, 1876.
- sitting duck — a helpless or easy target or victim: a sitting duck for shady financial schemes.
- skating turn — a turn made by someone on roller or ice skates
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- sliding rule — (formerly) a slide rule.
- slopping out — In prisons where prisoners have to use buckets as toilets, slopping out is the practice in which they empty the buckets.
- slow-burning — (of combustible material) burning relatively slowly
- slubberingly — in a slubbering or slovenly manner
- slumberingly — in a slumbering manner
- snow bunting — a bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis, of the northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere having white plumage.
- snow pudding — a pudding, prepared by folding egg whites into a lemon gelatin mixture.
- sofa surfing — (of a homeless person) the practice of staying temporarily with various friends and relatives while attempting to find permanent accommodation
- son of a gun — a rogue; rascal; scoundrel: That son of a gun still owes me $20.
- 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
- south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- sov language — a type of language that has basic subject-object-verb order, as Turkish, Japanese, or Tamil.