12-letter words containing g, u, r, s
- pork sausage — a sausage made with pork
- 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
- preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
- 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
- progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
- pronouncings — utterances, esp of an official or judgmental nature
- prostituting — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- pseudography — writing that does not follow conventional spelling or usage
- pull strings — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- push through — force to accept
- pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
- quadragesima — the first Sunday in Lent.
- quartz glass — lechatelierite.
- quitch grass — any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.
- 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.
- refurnishing — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
- rescue grass — a grass, Bromus unioloides (or B. catharticus), of tropical America, having clusters of flattened spikelets, grown for forage.
- resoundingly — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
- rhizophagous — feeding on roots.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- rights issue — Finance; offering of new shares to existing holders
- 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.
- rough-spoken — coarse or vulgar in speech.
- roughhousing — the act of behaving in a boisterous or rough way
- rubber goods — contraceptives; condoms
- rummage sale — a sale of miscellaneous articles, old or new, as items contributed to raise money for charity, of unclaimed goods at a wharf or warehouse, or of odds and ends of merchandise at a shop.
- running shoe — trainer, sneaker
- rush matting — a floor covering made from rushes (plants of the genus Juncus)
- rush through — If you rush something through, you deal with it quickly so that it is ready in a shorter time than usual.
- rust-through — an act or instance of rusting: The body of the car is protected against rust-through.
- rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
- sacrilegious — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- safe surfing — the practice of using security measures to protect one's computer while surfing the internet
- sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
- sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
- sanguivorous — feeding on blood, as a bat or insect.
- saprophagous — (of an organism) feeding on dead or decaying animal matter.
- sarcophagous — carnivorous.
- saronic gulf — an inlet of the Aegean, on the SE coast of Greece, between Attica and the Peloponnesus. 50 miles (80 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.
- saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
- sausage curl — a lock of hair formed into a curl resembling a sausage in shape.