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12-letter words containing g, n, u

  • arsino group — the univalent group H 2 As−.
  • articulating — Present participle of articulate.
  • assassin bug — any long-legged predatory, often blood-sucking, insect of the heteropterous family Reduviidae
  • assimulating — Present participle of assimulate.
  • astoundingly — capable of overwhelming with amazement; stunningly surprising.
  • astroturfing — a PR tactic used in politics and advertising in which actors are paid to display overt and apparently spontaneous grassroots support for a particular product, policy, or event
  • attenborough — Sir David. born 1926, British naturalist and broadcaster; noted esp for his TV series Life on Earth (1978), The Living Planet (1983), The Life of Birds (1998), The Life of Mammals (2002), and First Life (2010)
  • augmentation — the act of augmenting or the state of being augmented
  • augmentative — tending or able to augment
  • aurene glass — an iridescent American art glass colored gold and blue.
  • auscultating — Present participle of auscultate.
  • autochangers — Plural form of autochanger.
  • autogenously — In an autogenous manner; spontaneously.
  • autographing — Present participle of autograph.
  • autoignition — Automotive. the spontaneous ignition of fuel when introduced into the combustion chamber of an internal-combustion engine, as a result either of glowing carbon in the chamber or of the heat of compression.
  • automatizing — Present participle of automatize.
  • automobiling — (dated) present participle of automobile.
  • baba gannouj — a salad of cooked eggplant, olive oil, garlic, etc.
  • baba ghanouj — a Middle Eastern dish, a puree of broiled eggplant usually with garlic, lemon juice, and tahini, eaten with pita as an appetizer
  • backgrounded — Simple past tense and past participle of background.
  • backgrounder — A backgrounder is a short article in a newspaper or magazine that provides background information about a particular subject.
  • badger skunk — hog-nosed skunk (def 1).
  • badger-skunk — Also called badger skunk, rooter skunk. a large, naked-muzzled skunk, Conepatus mesoleucus, common in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a black coat with one broad white stripe down the back and tail.
  • ball turning — the turning of arms or legs on furniture to make them resemble a continuous row of balls.
  • barcalounger — a type of reclinable armchair with an extendable footrest
  • base jumping — a sport in which a participant parachutes from any of a variety of fixed objects such as high buildings, cliffs, etc
  • bathing suit — A bathing suit is a piece of clothing which people wear when they go swimming.
  • battleground — A battleground is the same as a battlefield.
  • beardtongues — Plural form of beardtongue.
  • bearskin rug — the pelt of a bear, used as a rug
  • beaumontague — a cement-like substance used to fill in and hide cracks and holes in woodwork and metalwork
  • bed moulding — a moulding in an entablature between the corona and the frieze
  • begrudgingly — If you do something begrudgingly, you do it unwillingly.
  • beijing duck — a roasted duck prized for its crisp skin, prepared by forcing air between skin and meat, brushing with sugar water, and hanging up to dry before final cooking.
  • beleaguering — to surround with military forces.
  • bell housing — A bell housing is a bell-shaped extension of an engine crankcase, that contains the flywheel and the clutch.
  • below ground — If something is below ground or below the ground, it is in the ground.
  • benzal group — the bivalent group C 7 H 6 –, derived from benzaldehyde.
  • benzyl group — the univalent group C 7 H 7 –, derived from toluene.
  • big business — Big business is business which involves very large companies and very large sums of money.
  • big-sounding — meant to be impressive in scale
  • bilingualism — Bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages equally well.
  • bilinguality — the ability to speak two languages fluently.
  • biocomputing — the application of computing to problems in biology, biochemistry, and genetics
  • bit stuffing — (protocol)   A protocol which guarantees the receiver of synchronous data can recover the sender's clock. When the data stream sent contains a large number of adjacent bits which cause no transition of the signal, the receiver cannot adjust its clock to maintain proper synchronised reception. To eliminate the possibility of such a pathological case, when a preset number of transitionless bits have been transmitted, a bit which does cause a transition is "stuffed" (transmitted) by the sender. The receiver follows the same protocol and removes the stuffed bit after the specified number of transitionless bits, but can use the stuffed bit to recover the sender's clock. The advantage of bit stuffing is that only a bit (not a byte) is inserted in the data stream, and that only when the content of the data stream fails to provide a timing signal to the receiver. Thus very nearly 100% of the bits transported are useful data. In contrast, asynchronous transmission of data "throws away" a start bit and one or more stop bits for each data byte sent.
  • biting louse — any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga, such as the chicken louse: external parasites of birds and mammals with biting mouthparts
  • black tongue — canine pellagra.
  • blockbusting — A blockbusting film or book is one that is very successful, usually because it is very exciting.
  • bloodsucking — any animal that sucks blood, especially a leech.
  • blue springs — a town in W Missouri.
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