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12-letter words containing g, u, t

  • autoallogamy — the ability of some plants of a species to cross-pollinate and others to self-pollinate
  • autochangers — Plural form of autochanger.
  • autogenously — In an autogenous manner; spontaneously.
  • autographing — Present participle of autograph.
  • autoignition — Automotive. the spontaneous ignition of fuel when introduced into the combustion chamber of an internal-combustion engine, as a result either of glowing carbon in the chamber or of the heat of compression.
  • automatizing — Present participle of automatize.
  • automobiling — (dated) present participle of automobile.
  • backup light — Backup lights are the white lights on the back of a vehicle that shine when the vehicle moves backward.
  • ball turning — the turning of arms or legs on furniture to make them resemble a continuous row of balls.
  • bathing suit — A bathing suit is a piece of clothing which people wear when they go swimming.
  • battle group — a group of warships usually consisting of at least one aircraft carrier, other surface ships, submarines, landing craft, etc
  • battleground — A battleground is the same as a battlefield.
  • beardtongues — Plural form of beardtongue.
  • beaumontague — a cement-like substance used to fill in and hide cracks and holes in woodwork and metalwork
  • bilinguality — the ability to speak two languages fluently.
  • biocomputing — the application of computing to problems in biology, biochemistry, and genetics
  • bit stuffing — (protocol)   A protocol which guarantees the receiver of synchronous data can recover the sender's clock. When the data stream sent contains a large number of adjacent bits which cause no transition of the signal, the receiver cannot adjust its clock to maintain proper synchronised reception. To eliminate the possibility of such a pathological case, when a preset number of transitionless bits have been transmitted, a bit which does cause a transition is "stuffed" (transmitted) by the sender. The receiver follows the same protocol and removes the stuffed bit after the specified number of transitionless bits, but can use the stuffed bit to recover the sender's clock. The advantage of bit stuffing is that only a bit (not a byte) is inserted in the data stream, and that only when the content of the data stream fails to provide a timing signal to the receiver. Thus very nearly 100% of the bits transported are useful data. In contrast, asynchronous transmission of data "throws away" a start bit and one or more stop bits for each data byte sent.
  • biting louse — any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga, such as the chicken louse: external parasites of birds and mammals with biting mouthparts
  • black tongue — canine pellagra.
  • blockbusting — A blockbusting film or book is one that is very successful, usually because it is very exciting.
  • blow through — to leave; make off
  • blue whiting — a fish of the cod family, Micromesistius poutassou
  • blue-singlet — working-class
  • blueprinting — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background.
  • blues guitar — blues guitar music
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • boar-hunting — the practice of hunting wild boars
  • boarding out — the local-authority practice of placing a client in a foster family or voluntary establishment and paying for it
  • boatbuilding — Boatbuilding is the craft or industry of making boats.
  • bolt upright — If someone is sitting or standing bolt upright, they are sitting or standing very straight.
  • bonnet rouge — a red cap worn by ardent supporters of the French Revolution
  • bottle gourd — an Old World cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Lagenaria siceraria, having large hard-shelled gourds as fruits
  • boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
  • bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
  • bouncing bet — a perennial soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) with clusters of pinkish flowers
  • breakthrough — A breakthrough is an important development or achievement.
  • breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
  • breath group — a sequence of sounds articulated in the course of a single exhalation; an utterance or part of an utterance produced between pauses for breath.
  • buffalo gnat — any of various small North American blood-sucking dipterous insects of the genus Simulium and related genera: family Simuliidae
  • bugger about — If someone buggers about or buggers around, they waste time doing unnecessary things.
  • bull-baiting — the setting of dogs on a chained or confined bull, formerly a popular pastime in England
  • bullfighting — Bullfighting is the public entertainment in which people try to kill bulls in bullfights.
  • burning ghat — a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.
  • burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
  • bus topology — bus
  • bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
  • bushfighting — fighting in the bush
  • butter icing — a mixture of butter and icing sugar used for filling or topping cakes
  • buttonholing — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
  • calumniating — Present participle of calumniate.
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