12-letter words containing g, r, o, u
- oriental rug — a rug or carpet woven usually in Asia and characterized by hand-knotted pile.
- original gum — See o.g (def 1).
- ornithogalum — any plant of the genus Ornithogalum
- out-marriage — a marriage to someone outside one's ethnic group
- outcroppings — Plural form of outcropping.
- outgeneraled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
- outmigration — to leave a region, community, etc., to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory: People are no longer out-migrating from the South in such large numbers.
- outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
- outrageously — In an outrageous manner; to an outrageous degree.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- outstripping — to outdo; surpass; excel.
- outthrusting — Present participle of outthrust.
- over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
- over-running — to rove over (a country, region, etc.); invade; ravage: a time when looting hordes had overrun the province.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- overgenerous — liberal in giving or sharing; unselfish: a generous patron of the arts; a generous gift.
- overregulate — to apply rules and regulations excessively to (something)
- oversanguine — too optimistic
- oxford group — an organization founded at Oxford University in 1921 by Frank Buchman, advocating absolute morality in public and private life.
- package tour — a planned tour in which one fee is charged for all expenses: offering package tours of the chateau country.
- paragnathous — (of certain vertebrates) having the upper and lower jaws of equal length
- parent group — a large organization that owns a number of smaller separate commercial or industrial firms
- paring gouge — a woodworker's gouge having the bezel on the concave face.
- parlour game — A parlour game is a game that is played indoors by families or at parties, for example a guessing game.
- pass through — an act of passing.
- pass-through — a windowlike opening, as one for passing food or dishes between a kitchen and a dining area.
- pentyl group — any of the univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 5 H 1 1 –.
- peroxy group — the bivalent group –O 2 –, derived from hydrogen peroxide.
- peterborough — a city in Cambridgeshire, in central England.
- petrol gauge — a gauge that indicates the amount of petrol left in the tank of a vehicle
- phenyl group — the univalent group C 6 H 5 –, derived from benzene.
- photogravure — any of various processes, based on photography, by which an intaglio engraving is formed on a metal plate, from which ink reproductions are made.
- pipe routing — Pipe routing is the planning of pipeline layout, which includes considerations of neatness, economy, and safety.
- play through — to pass another foursome or group with their permission, while playing a round of golf
- pleurogenous — Anatomy. pertaining to or originating from the pleura.
- plough horse — a horse used for pulling a plough
- ploughwright — a person who makes ploughs
- pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
- popular song — a song that is written to have an immediate and wide appeal and is usually popular for only a short time, but that sometimes is of a sufficiently high quality to become part of the permanent repertoire of popular music and jazz. Compare standard (def 12).
- pork sausage — a sausage made with pork
- port running — an evasive action at a port of entry in which a person drives through a vehicle-stopping point.
- postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
- postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- pro-suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
- prodigiously — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel