12-letter words containing g, p, u
- gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- h paul grice — H(erbert) Paul, 1913–88, English philosopher.
- hepatogenous — originating in the liver
- hippo regius — a seaport of ancient Numidia: St. Augustine was bishop here a.d. 395–430; the site of modern Annaba, in Algeria.
- hippophagous — eating horse meat
- housekeeping — the maintenance of a house or domestic establishment.
- hung up (on) — emotionally disturbed (by); neurotic, repressed, etc.
- hunger pangs — sudden strong feelings of hunger
- hungry puppy — Synonym slopsucker.
- hunting pink — scarlet
- hygrophilous — a plant that thrives in wet or very moist ground.
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- hypognathous — having the lower jaw or mandible longer than the upper.
- impetiginous — a contagious skin disease, especially of children, usually caused by streptococcal bacteria, marked by a superficial pustular eruption, particularly on the face.
- income group — a group in a given population having incomes within a certain range
- inexpugnable — incapable of being taken by force; impregnable; unconquerable.
- inexpungible — that cannot be expunged, erased, or obliterated; inextirpable.
- interrupting — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
- isotopologue — (chemistry) any of a group of compounds only differing in their isotopic composition; for example water and heavy water.
- jump the gun — a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
- jumping bean — the seed of any of certain Mexican plants of the genera Sebastiania and Sapium, of the spurge family: the movements of a moth larva inside the seed cause it to move about or jump.
- jumping gene — transposon.
- jumping hare — springhare.
- jumping jack — a toy consisting of a jointed figure that is made to jump, move, or dance by pulling a string or stick attached to it.
- jumpstarting — Present participle of jumpstart.
- jury-packing — the practice of contriving that the majority of those chosen for a jury will be persons likely to have partialities affecting a particular case.
- karnaugh map — A Karnaugh map is a pictorial method used to minimize Boolean expressions without having to use Boolean algebra theorems.
- keraunograph — an instrument for recording thunderstorms by detecting the radio waves generated
- ketone group — the characteristic group occurring in ketones that consists of the carbonyl group attached to two alkyl groups.
- king penguin — a large penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus, found on islands bordering the Antarctic Circle.
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- lithophagous — swallowing or feeding on stones
- loop through — loop
- macrophagous — (of an animal) feeding on relatively large particles of food
- magnetopause — the boundary between the earth's magnetosphere and interplanetary space, about 40,000 miles (65,000 km) above the earth, marked by an abrupt decrease in the earth's magnetic induction.
- make-up girl — a woman or girl who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
- mallophagous — of or relating to any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga
- manipulating — Present participle of manipulate.
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
- methyl group — the univalent group CH 3 −, derived from methane.
- microphagous — (of an animal) feeding on small particles of food
- milk pudding — a hot or cold pudding made by boiling or baking milk with a grain, esp rice
- mount pisgah — the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan
- multipathing — (computing) A network facility providing fault tolerance and load-spreading for network interface cards, each interface being assigned a static
- multiplexing — having many parts or aspects: the multiplex problem of drug abuse.
- multipronged — having or composed of several prongs: a multipronged electric plug.
- mumblety-peg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
- naughty step — a place where a child is made to stand as a punishment for bad behaviour