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12-letter words containing g, u, t

  • retail group — a group of companies under single ownership, which sell goods to individual customers
  • retrolingual — situated behind or near the base of the tongue.
  • rheumatology — the study and treatment of rheumatic diseases.
  • 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
  • ring circuit — an electrical system in which distribution points are connected to the main supply in a continuous closed circuit
  • rock bunting — a seed-eating songbird, Emberiza cia
  • rogue trader — A rogue trader is an employee of a financial institution who carries out business without the knowledge or approval of his or her bosses.
  • romp through — If you romp through something, you do it or deal with it quickly and easily.
  • rugby tackle — A rugby tackle is a way of making someone fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.
  • ruminatingly — in a ruminating manner
  • running knot — a knot made around and so as to slide along a part of the same rope, thus forming a noose (running noose) that tightens as the rope is pulled.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
  • sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
  • saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
  • sausage meat — minced and processed pork
  • sausage tree — a tropical African tree, Kigelia pinnata, having red, bell-shaped flowers and large, sausage-shaped fruits hanging from very long stalks.
  • scatophagous — feeding on dung or excrement
  • scrutinizing — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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).
  • shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
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