12-letter words containing g, n, u
- unwaveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- unwearyingly — in an unwearying manner
- unyieldingly — unable to bend or be penetrated under pressure; hard: trees so unyielding that they broke in the harsh north winds.
- up and doing — busy; active
- urban blight — deterioration of property in centre of city
- urban legend — a modern story of obscure origin and with little or no supporting evidence that spreads spontaneously in varying forms and often has elements of humor, moralizing, or horror: Are there alligators living in the New York City sewer system, or is that just an urban legend?
- urbanologist — a sociologist specializing in urban life and problems
- urinogenital — genitourinary.
- urobilinogen — a colourless substance produced by bacterial degradation of the bile pigment bilirubin in the intestine and which produces urobilin when oxidized
- vaginicolous — living in a sheath
- vainglorious — filled with or given to vainglory: a vainglorious actor.
- vengefulness — desiring or seeking vengeance; vindictive: a vengeful attitude.
- venus figure — Venus (def 3).
- vigee-lebrun — (Marie Anne) Élisabeth [ma-ree an ey-lee-za-bet] /maˈri an eɪ li zaˈbɛt/ (Show IPA), 1755–1842, French painter.
- virgin queen — Queen Elizabeth I of England.
- visual angle — the angle subtended by an object at the lens of the eye
- visual range — Meteorology. visibility (def 3).
- vitiliginous — a skin disorder characterized by smooth, white patches on various parts of the body, caused by the loss of the natural pigment.
- vso language — a type of language that has basic verb-subject-object word order, as Welsh, classical Arabic, or Tagalog.
- vulgar latin — popular Latin, as distinguished from literary or standard Latin, especially those spoken forms of Latin from which the Romance languages developed. Abbreviation: VL.
- vulvovaginal — relating to the external female genitals
- waking hours — Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.
- walking tour — a tour on which you walk rather than using transport
- waste ground — an empty piece of land
- westinghouse — George, 1846–1914, U.S. inventor and manufacturer.
- wet puddling — puddling on a hearth rich in iron oxide so that carbon monoxide is generated, giving the iron the appearance of boiling.
- white-ground — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece from the 6th to the 4th centuries b.c., characterized chiefly by a white background of slip onto which were painted polychromatic figures.
- wind-sucking — cribbing (def 1).
- winding drum — a rotating drum usually grooved to nest a wire rope which is wound onto it as part of the mechanism of a hoist
- wineglassful — the capacity of a wineglass, typically containing four to six fluid ounces.
- wing formula — a numerical representation of the relative lengths of the primary feathers of a bird's wing, used in identifying similar species, as flycatchers.
- wood turning — the forming of wood articles upon a lathe.
- wrong number — a call made to a number other than the one intended. the number or person reached through such a call.
- wrongfulness — unjust or unfair: a wrongful act; a wrongful charge.
- wrought iron — a form of iron, almost entirely free of carbon and having a fibrous structure including a uniformly distributed slag content, that is readily forged and welded.
- wusuli jiang — Ussuri.
- youghiogheny — a river flowing from NW Maryland through SW Pennsylvania into the Monongahela River. 135 miles (217 km) long.
- young fustic — fustet (def 2).
- youngberries — Plural form of youngberry.
- younger edda — either of two old Icelandic literary works, one a collection of poems on mythical and religious subjects (or) erroneously attributed to Saemund Sigfusson (c1055–1133), the other a collection of ancient Scandinavian myths and legends, rules and theories of versification, poems, etc. (or) compiled and written in part by Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241).
- younger hand — (in piquet and similar card games) the dealer
- younghusband — Sir Francis Edward. 1863–1942, British explorer, mainly of N India and Tibet. He used military force to compel the Dalai Lama to sign (1904) a trade agreement with Britain
- yuri gagarin — Yuri Alekseyevich [yoo r-ee al-ik-sey-uh-vich;; Russian yoo-ryi uh-lyi-ksye-yi-vyich] /ˈyʊər i ˌæl ɪkˈseɪ ə vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈyu ryɪ ʌ lyɪˈksyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1934–68, Russian astronaut: first human being to make an orbital space flight (1961).
- zhang zuolin — Chang Tso-lin.