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12-letter words containing g, u, s, t

  • sitting duck — a helpless or easy target or victim: a sitting duck for shady financial schemes.
  • skating turn — a turn made by someone on roller or ice skates
  • slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
  • slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
  • slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
  • slip through — be undetected
  • slopping out — In prisons where prisoners have to use buckets as toilets, slopping out is the practice in which they empty the buckets.
  • snow bunting — a bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis, of the northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere having white plumage.
  • sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
  • sooty grouse — blue grouse.
  • sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • south-facing — facing towards the south
  • spirit guide — type of mystical guardian
  • sporting gun — a gun intended for hunting
  • sprightfully — in a sprightful manner
  • sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
  • stag hunting — the act of hunting or chasing and killing stags
  • stage-struck — obsessed with the desire to become an actor or actress.
  • standing cup — a tall decorative cup of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, having a raised cover.
  • status group — a social stratum sharing the same lifestyle or occupation and having the same level of prestige.
  • 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.
  • steatopygous — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
  • steel guitar — an acoustic, handheld guitar having a metal resonator and producing a wailing, variable sound.
  • stegocarpous — (of a moss) belonging to the division Stegocarpi, having an operculate capsule
  • stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
  • stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
  • stepdaughter — a daughter of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
  • stick figure — a diagrammatic drawing representing a human or animal, usually made with one line each for the torso and appendages, and often a circle for the head.
  • 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.
  • storage tube — an electron tube in which information is stored as charges for a predetermined time
  • storage unit — rented space to store items
  • store-bought — commercially made rather than homemade.
  • straight out — thoroughgoing: a straight-out Democrat.
  • straight-out — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • 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.
  • struggle bus — a situation, task, etc., that seems difficult or frustrating: With no sleep last night, I’ll be on the struggle bus today.
  • 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.
  • studio glass — art glass produced by an independent artisan in the studio.
  • stuffing box — a device for preventing leakage of gases or liquids along a moving rod or shaft at the point at which it leaves a cylinder, tank, ship hull, etc.
  • stuffing nut — a large nut that is tightened to compress the packing in a stuffing box
  • stun grenade — a nonlethal grenade which is used to disturb the senses of enemies by its loud noise and its bright light
  • stunt flying — the activity or practice of performing stunts in an aeroplane, such as special turns, etc, in the air
  • stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
  • sub-mortgage — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
  • subaggregate — a subtotal
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