12-letter words containing i, r, e, g, u, l
- oriental rug — a rug or carpet woven usually in Asia and characterized by hand-knotted pile.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
- preinaugural — occurring before an inauguration
- prelingually — in a prelingual manner
- pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
- quadraplegic — quadriplegic.
- quadriplegia — paralysis of all four limbs or of the entire body below the neck.
- quadriplegic — a person with quadriplegia.
- quarterlight — A small, pivoted, normally triangular, car window that acts as a vent.
- reassuringly — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- regulation t — (in the U.S.) a federal law governing the amount of credit that may be advanced by brokers and dealers to customers for the purchase of securities on margin.
- regulation u — (in the U.S.) a federal law governing the amount of credit that may be advanced by a bank for the purchase of listed securities.
- reregulation — renewed regulation, the act or process of regulating again
- rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
- resoundingly — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- 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.
- rough collie — a breed of long-haired collie with a coarse black-and-white or black, tan, and white coat, thicker around its neck and shoulders.
- ruling elder — an elder in a Presbyterian church.
- ruling grade — the steepest grade on a given stretch of track, which determines the maximum tonnage that can be hauled in a train having a given horsepower at a stated minimum speed.
- sacrilegious — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
- semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
- 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
- simple group — a group that has no normal subgroup except the group itself and the identity.
- simple sugar — monosaccharide.
- slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
- sliding rule — (formerly) a slide rule.
- slubberingly — in a slubbering or slovenly manner
- slumberingly — in a slumbering manner
- solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
- sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
- steel guitar — an acoustic, handheld guitar having a metal resonator and producing a wailing, variable sound.
- sub-religion — a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
- sugar glider — a gliding possum, Petaurus breviceps, inhabiting open forests of New Guinea, Tasmania, and Australia.
- supercooling — to cool (a liquid) below its freezing point without producing solidification or crystallization; undercool.
- superglacial — on the surface of a glacier.
- through-line — a theme or idea that runs from the beginning to the end of a book, film, etc
- triple fugue — a fugue with a subject and two countersubjects developed simultaneously.
- un-ignorable — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- unbridgeable — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- undercooling — Chemistry. to cool less than necessary for a given process or purpose. to supercool.
- underlapping — to extend partly under.
- underlyingly — in an underlying manner
- undersealing — the process of applying a coating of underseal to a motor vehicle
- undervaluing — to value below the real worth; put too low a value on.
- unflattering — to try to please by complimentary remarks or attention.