12-letter words containing g, r, o, u
- unforgetting — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
- unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- unforgivably — in an unforgivable manner
- ungenerosity — the state of being ungenerous
- ungenerously — in an ungenerous manner
- unglamorized — not glamorized
- unglamourous — full of glamour; charmingly or fascinatingly attractive, especially in a mysterious or magical way.
- ungovernable — impossible to govern, rule, or restrain; uncontrollable.
- ungraciously — in an ungracious manner
- ungratuitous — given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary.
- ungroundedly — without basis
- unmoralising — not moralising
- unmoralizing — not moralizing
- unnourishing — not providing nourishment
- unobligatory — required as a matter of obligation; mandatory: A reply is desirable but not obligatory.
- unoriginated — not originated
- unperforming — not performing
- unprogrammed — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- unprotesting — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
- unrecognized — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- unresponding — to reply or answer in words: to respond briefly to a question.
- unsupporting — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- up for grabs — to seize suddenly or quickly; snatch; clutch: He grabbed me by the collar.
- 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
- vainglorious — filled with or given to vainglory: a vainglorious actor.
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- waking hours — Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.
- walk through — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
- walk-through — Theater, Television. a rehearsal in which physical action is combined with reading the lines of a play. a perfunctory performance of a script.
- walking tour — a tour on which you walk rather than using transport
- walkthroughs — Plural form of walkthrough.
- waste ground — an empty piece of land
- water bouget — (formerly) a leather bag suspended at each end of a pole or yoke and used for carrying water.
- well-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- wherethrough — through which; because of
- 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.
- 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.
- work through — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- 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.
- yogurt-maker — a machine for making yogurt
- 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