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12-letter words containing g, r, o, u

  • saprophagous — (of an organism) feeding on dead or decaying animal matter.
  • sarcophagous — carnivorous.
  • 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.
  • sausage roll — A sausage roll is a small amount of sausage meat which is covered with pastry and cooked.
  • scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • secretagogue — a substance or situation that promotes secretion.
  • self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • sell-through — quantity of direct sales made
  • semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
  • seo de urgel — Urgel.
  • 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.
  • shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
  • shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
  • shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
  • show-through — the visibility through paper of what is printed on the other side.
  • simple group — a group that has no normal subgroup except the group itself and the identity.
  • slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
  • slip through — be undetected
  • slow-burning — (of combustible material) burning relatively slowly
  • sofa surfing — (of a homeless person) the practice of staying temporarily with various friends and relatives while attempting to find permanent accommodation
  • solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
  • sooty grouse — blue grouse.
  • sorghum beer — beer made from sorghum or millet
  • sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
  • spermogonium — one of the cup-shaped or flask-shaped receptacles in which the spermatia of certain fungi and red algae are produced.
  • spoil ground — an area within a body of water, especially in the sea, where dredged material is deposited.
  • sporangiolum — a small sporangium
  • sporting gun — a gun intended for hunting
  • status group — a social stratum sharing the same lifestyle or occupation and having the same level of prestige.
  • stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
  • stegocarpous — (of a moss) belonging to the division Stegocarpi, having an operculate capsule
  • stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
  • stone-ground — (of wheat or other grain) ground between millstones, especially those made of burstone, so as to retain the whole of the grain and preserve nutritional content.
  • storage tube — an electron tube in which information is stored as charges for a predetermined time
  • storage unit — rented space to store items
  • store-bought — commercially made rather than homemade.
  • straight out — thoroughgoing: a straight-out Democrat.
  • straight-out — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • stringcourse — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
  • sub-mortgage — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
  • sub-religion — a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
  • submicrogram — containing or relating to a mass of less than one microgram
  • sugar-coated — Sugar-coated food is covered with a sweet substance made of sugar.
  • sugarcoating — the act or process of covering something with sugar.
  • sugaring off — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
  • supercooling — to cool (a liquid) below its freezing point without producing solidification or crystallization; undercool.
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