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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.
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