12-letter words containing i, n, g, u
- distress gun — a gun fired at one-minute intervals as a signal of distress.
- distributing — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
- drilling mud — a water-based or oil-based suspension of clays pumped into an oil well during drilling in order to seal off porous rock layers, equalize the pressure, cool the bit, and flush out the cuttings.
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- drug-driving — driving while under the influence of drugs, esp illegal drugs
- drug-induced — caused by recreational or medical drugs
- drug-running — the activity of illegally taking recreational drugs into a country
- dry mounting — the technique of fastening a print, photograph, or the like to a board by using a heated thermoplastic tissue as an adhesive.
- dry puddling — puddling in a furnace with a bottom of sand.
- duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
- dumbfounding — Present participle of dumbfound.
- dumbing down — the act or process of making something less intellectually demanding; a pejorative use
- dunny budgie — a blowfly
- dutch guiana — former name of Suriname.
- eating house — a restaurant or other place where one can eat
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- effectuating — Present participle of effectuate.
- effiguration — a detailed and elaborate description of something
- egyptian mau — a breed of medium-sized cat with a spotted coat of medium length
- emasculating — Present participle of emasculate.
- encountering — Present participle of encounter.
- endeavouring — Present participle of endeavour.
- enduringness — The quality of being enduring; lastingness.
- engine house — a building in which engines, as fire engines, railroad locomotives, etc., are housed
- engine mount — The engine mount is the part of the chassis on which an engine is supported.
- ensanguining — Present participle of ensanguine.
- equigranular — (petrology) Composed chiefly of grains of similar size.
- equivocating — Present participle of equivocate.
- eurosterling — sterling as part of a European holding
- excruciating — Intensely painful.
- excursioning — Present participle of excursion.
- exhaustingly — In an exhausting manner.
- exiguousness — The quality of being meagre or scanty.
- expugnations — Plural form of expugnation.
- exsanguinate — (transitive) To kill by means of blood loss.
- exsanguinous — Alternative form of exsanguious.
- extinguished — Cause (a fire or light) to cease to burn or shine.
- extinguisher — Anything that extinguishes something; but especially a fire extinguisher.
- extinguishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of extinguish.
- fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
- fan vaulting — a system of fan vaults.
- faultfinding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
- feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
- finno-ugrian — pertaining to the Finns and the Ugrians.
- firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
- fissilingual — having a forked tongue
- flat-hunting — the activity of looking for a flat in which to live
- flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.