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12-letter words containing g, u, n, e, r, a

  • nonregulated — Alternative spelling of non-regulated.
  • nueva gerona — a town on the Isle of Pines, S of Cuba.
  • nugatoriness — Quality of being nugatory.
  • numbers game — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
  • orange juice — fruit drink: nectar of orange
  • oriental rug — a rug or carpet woven usually in Asia and characterized by hand-knotted pile.
  • outgeneraled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • oversanguine — too optimistic
  • paralanguage — vocal features that accompany speech and contribute to communication but are not generally considered to be part of the language system, as vocal quality, loudness, and tempo: sometimes also including facial expressions and gestures.
  • 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.
  • pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • perpetuating — to make perpetual.
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
  • pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
  • pre-language — a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language; the Yiddish language.
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • preinaugural — occurring before an inauguration
  • prelingually — in a prelingual manner
  • rag business — the garment, clothing, or fashion industry.
  • rauschenberg — Robert, 1925–2008, U.S. artist.
  • reassuringly — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
  • recuperating — to recover from sickness or exhaustion; regain health or strength.
  • regulation t — (in the U.S.) a federal law governing the amount of credit that may be advanced by brokers and dealers to customers for the purchase of securities on margin.
  • regulation u — (in the U.S.) a federal law governing the amount of credit that may be advanced by a bank for the purchase of listed securities.
  • rejuvenating — making young again
  • reregulation — renewed regulation, the act or process of regulating again
  • retrolingual — situated behind or near the base of the tongue.
  • rogue's yarn — a yarn of distinctive color, material, or twist, laid in a strand or strands of a rope to identify the owner or the maker.
  • rouge dragon — a pursuivant at the English college of arms
  • 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 gear — the working components of a motor-driven or steam-driven vehicle other than those used to develop or transmit power, as wheels, axles or springs, as distinguished from the body.
  • running head — a descriptive word, phrase, title, or the like, usually repeated at the top of each page of a book, periodical, etc.
  • running mate — a candidate for an office linked with another and more important office, as for the vice-presidency.
  • safe surfing — the practice of using security measures to protect one's computer while surfing the internet
  • sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
  • saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • 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.
  • slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
  • south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
  • spur gearing — a system of spur gears.
  • squared ring — boxing ring.
  • stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
  • stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
  • stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
  • storage unit — rented space to store items
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