12-letter words containing g, u, n, d
- ruby wedding — a fortieth wedding anniversary
- ruling elder — an elder in a Presbyterian church.
- ruling grade — the steepest grade on a given stretch of track, which determines the maximum tonnage that can be hauled in a train having a given horsepower at a stated minimum speed.
- running bond — a brickwork bond having successive courses of overlapping stretchers.
- running hand — script or calligraphy characterized by uniformly slanted letters that are written quickly and connected by long, continuous strokes of the pen.
- running head — a descriptive word, phrase, title, or the like, usually repeated at the top of each page of a book, periodical, etc.
- sago pudding — a sweet pudding made with sago and milk
- scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
- scuba diving — deep-sea swimming
- second-guess — to use hindsight in criticizing or correcting.
- shipbuilding — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- sigismund ii — called Sigismund Augustus. 1520–72, king of Poland (1548–72), who united Poland, Lithuania, and their dependencies by the Union of Lublin (1569)
- sinking fund — a fund to extinguish an indebtedness, usually a bond issue.
- sitting duck — a helpless or easy target or victim: a sitting duck for shady financial schemes.
- sliding rule — (formerly) a slide rule.
- snow pudding — a pudding, prepared by folding egg whites into a lemon gelatin mixture.
- sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
- spade guinea — a guinea decorated with a spade-shaped shield, coined during the reign of George III
- spoil ground — an area within a body of water, especially in the sea, where dredged material is deposited.
- spud-bashing — the task of peeling potatoes, given as a punishment
- spun-bonding — a process for forming nonwoven fabrics, usually of limited durability, by bonding continuous-filament synthetic fibers immediately after extrusion.
- squared ring — boxing ring.
- standing cup — a tall decorative cup of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, having a raised cover.
- 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.
- stud welding — the semiautomatic welding of a stud or similar piece of metal to a flat part, usually by means of an electric arc
- studdingsail — a light sail, sometimes set outboard of either of the leeches of a square sail and extended by booms.
- stun grenade — a nonlethal grenade which is used to disturb the senses of enemies by its loud noise and its bright light
- succeedingly — being that which follows; subsequent; ensuing: laws to benefit succeeding generations.
- suet pudding — a pudding made of chopped beef suet and flour, boiled or steamed in a cloth, often with other ingredients, as raisins, spices, etc.
- superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
- surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
- surroundings — something that surrounds.
- thymus gland — a ductless, butterfly-shaped gland lying at the base of the neck, formed mostly of lymphatic tissue and aiding in the production of T cells of the immune system: after puberty, the lymphatic tissue gradually degenerates.
- tongue-blade — a broad, thin piece of wood used by doctors to hold down the patient's tongue during an examination of the mouth and throat.
- touch and go — precarious situation
- touch ground — (of a ship) to strike the sea bed
- touch-and-go — risky; precarious: a touch-and-go descent down the mountain.
- tough-minded — characterized by a practical, unsentimental attitude or point of view.
- turf dancing — a fluid style of street-dancing originating in the Bay Area of San Francisco, California
- unaffrighted — to frighten.
- unaggregated — formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined: the aggregate amount of indebtedness.
- unbridgeable — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- uncatalogued — not added to or detailed in a catalogue
- unchallenged — a euphemism for disabled (usually preceded by an adverb): physically challenged.
- uncoagulated — Obsolete. coagulated.
- unconjugated — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
- undelightful — giving great pleasure or delight; highly pleasing: a delightful surprise.
- under-design — to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of: to design a new bridge.
- under-manage — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
- underbearing — unassuming