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12-letter words containing l, u, g

  • propyl group — any of two univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 3 H 7 −.
  • public goods — services such as national defence, law enforcement, and road building, that are for the benefit of, and available to, all members of the public
  • pudding club — the state of being pregnant (esp in the phrase in the pudding club)
  • pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
  • pull strings — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
  • pull through — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
  • pulling boat — a boat propelled by oars alone.
  • push polling — the use of loaded questions in a supposedly objective telephone opinion poll during a political campaign in order to bias voters against an opposing candidate
  • pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
  • quacksalving — resembling or characteristic of a quacksalver
  • quadrangular — having four angles and four sides; having the shape of a quadrangle.
  • 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.
  • quartz glass — lechatelierite.
  • quasilogical — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
  • quilting bee — a social gathering at which the participants make quilts.
  • quitclaiming — Present participle of quitclaim.
  • reassuringly — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
  • regular army — the permanent army maintained in peace as well as in war; the standing army: one of the major components of the Army of the United States.
  • regular verb — verb that follows standard conjugation
  • regular year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
  • 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.
  • repromulgate — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • 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.
  • reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
  • rheumatology — the study and treatment of rheumatic diseases.
  • road haulage — transport of goods by road
  • 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.
  • rugby league — a form of rugby football played between teams of 13 players
  • rugby player — a person who plays rugby
  • rugby tackle — A rugby tackle is a way of making someone fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.
  • 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.
  • ruminatingly — in a ruminating manner
  • rummage sale — a sale of miscellaneous articles, old or new, as items contributed to raise money for charity, of unclaimed goods at a wharf or warehouse, or of odds and ends of merchandise at a shop.
  • sacrilegious — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
  • sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
  • sanguicolous — living in the blood, as a parasite.
  • sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
  • saronic gulf — an inlet of the Aegean, on the SE coast of Greece, between Attica and the Peloponnesus. 50 miles (80 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.
  • sauk village — a town in NE Illinois.
  • saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
  • sausage curl — a lock of hair formed into a curl resembling a sausage in shape.
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