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.