12-letter words containing g, u, s
- scutch grass — Bermuda grass.
- sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
- second-guess — to use hindsight in criticizing or correcting.
- secretagogue — a substance or situation that promotes secretion.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- sell-through — quantity of direct sales made
- semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
- seo de urgel — Urgel.
- septuagesima — the third Sunday before Lent.
- 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
- 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.
- shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
- shelf fungus — bracket fungus
- shijiazhuang — a province in NE China. 81,479 sq. mi. (211,031 sq. km). Capital: Shijiazhuang.
- shipbuilding — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
- shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
- show jumping — sport: horseriding event
- show-through — the visibility through paper of what is printed on the other side.
- sight unseen — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- sigismund ii — called Sigismund Augustus. 1520–72, king of Poland (1548–72), who united Poland, Lithuania, and their dependencies by the Union of Lublin (1569)
- 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.
- simple group — a group that has no normal subgroup except the group itself and the identity.
- simple sugar — monosaccharide.
- single-issue — pertaining or devoted to one public issue only, especially a political one: single-issue voters.
- sinking fund — a fund to extinguish an indebtedness, usually a bond issue.
- sitting bull — 1834–90, American Indian warrior: leader of the Hunkpapa; victor at Little Bighorn, 1876.
- 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
- skullduggery — skulduggery.
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
- slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
- sliding rule — (formerly) a slide rule.
- 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.
- slow-burning — (of combustible material) burning relatively slowly
- slubberingly — in a slubbering or slovenly manner
- slumberingly — in a slumbering manner
- snow bunting — a bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis, of the northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere having white plumage.
- snow pudding — a pudding, prepared by folding egg whites into a lemon gelatin mixture.
- sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
- sofa surfing — (of a homeless person) the practice of staying temporarily with various friends and relatives while attempting to find permanent accommodation
- solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
- son of a gun — a rogue; rascal; scoundrel: That son of a gun still owes me $20.
- sooty grouse — blue grouse.
- sorghum beer — beer made from sorghum or millet
- sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.