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12-letter words containing g, u, n, i, t, e

  • 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.
  • paying guest — lodger
  • penguin suit — a man's formal evening suit
  • perpetuating — to make perpetual.
  • pipe routing — Pipe routing is the planning of pipeline layout, which includes considerations of neatness, economy, and safety.
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • puddingstone — any conglomerate rock having dark-colored, rounded pebbles that are embedded in a light-colored, fine-grained matrix
  • puppeteering — a person who manipulates puppets, as in a puppet show.
  • question tag — interrogative ending to a sentence
  • questionings — Plural form of questioning.
  • quilting bee — a social gathering at which the participants make quilts.
  • recentrifuge — to subject (a liquid) to the action of a centrifuge again
  • recuperating — to recover from sickness or exhaustion; regain health or strength.
  • reed bunting — an Old World bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus, inhabiting marshy areas.
  • 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.
  • ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
  • running mate — a candidate for an office linked with another and more important office, as for the vice-presidency.
  • running text — the body of text in a newspaper, magazine, or the like, as distinguished from the heads, illustrations, etc.
  • running time — Movies. the length or duration, usually expressed in minutes, of a feature film: The running time of the average film is 90–100 minutes.
  • sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
  • saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
  • setting rule — a metal strip used in the hand-setting of type in a composing stick to separate the line being set from the previous one
  • sight unseen — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
  • silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
  • sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
  • 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
  • strain gauge — Geology. a type of extensometer designed for geophysical use.
  • 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.
  • stud welding — the semiautomatic welding of a stud or similar piece of metal to a flat part, usually by means of an electric arc
  • stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
  • 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.
  • superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
  • tag question — Also called tag. a short interrogative structure appended to a statement or command, as isn't it in It's raining, isn't it?, are you in You're not going, are you?, or German nicht wahr.
  • tasting menu — a fixed-price restaurant meal or menu consisting of small portions of numerous dishes: We ordered the 6-course tasting menu for $125.
  • through-line — a theme or idea that runs from the beginning to the end of a book, film, etc
  • to ring true — If a statement rings true, it seems to be true or genuine. If it rings hollow, it does not seem to be true or genuine.
  • tough-minded — characterized by a practical, unsentimental attitude or point of view.
  • trunk engine — an engine having a trunk piston or pistons.
  • tsunamigenic — producing a tsunami or tsunamis
  • turbo engine — an engine containing a turbocharger
  • unaffrighted — to frighten.
  • unapologetic — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
  • unappetizing — appealing to or stimulating the appetite; savory.
  • uncollegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
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