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12-letter words containing o, n, g, u, a

  • pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
  • popular song — a song that is written to have an immediate and wide appeal and is usually popular for only a short time, but that sometimes is of a sufficiently high quality to become part of the permanent repertoire of popular music and jazz. Compare standard (def 12).
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
  • progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
  • promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • propugnation — defence
  • pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
  • pulling boat — a boat propelled by oars alone.
  • question tag — interrogative ending to a sentence
  • quindecagons — Plural form of quindecagon.
  • 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
  • retrolingual — situated behind or near the base of the tongue.
  • rogue's yarn — a yarn of distinctive color, material, or twist, laid in a strand or strands of a rope to identify the owner or the maker.
  • rouge dragon — a pursuivant at the English college of arms
  • sago pudding — a sweet pudding made with sago and milk
  • sanguicolous — living in the blood, as a parasite.
  • sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
  • sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
  • sanguivorous — feeding on blood, as a bat or insect.
  • 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.
  • scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • 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).
  • sofa surfing — (of a homeless person) the practice of staying temporarily with various friends and relatives while attempting to find permanent accommodation
  • son of a gun — a rogue; rascal; scoundrel: That son of a gun still owes me $20.
  • sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
  • south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • south-facing — facing towards the south
  • sov language — a type of language that has basic subject-object-verb order, as Turkish, Japanese, or Tamil.
  • spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
  • sporangiolum — a small sporangium
  • stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
  • stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
  • stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
  • storage unit — rented space to store items
  • sugarcoating — the act or process of covering something with sugar.
  • sugaring off — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
  • superorganic — of or relating to the structure of cultural elements within society conceived as independent of and superior to the individual members of society.
  • surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
  • svo language — a type of language that has basic subject-verb-object word order, as English, Chinese, or Spanish.
  • tag question — Also called tag. a short interrogative structure appended to a statement or command, as isn't it in It's raining, isn't it?, are you in You're not going, are you?, or German nicht wahr.
  • tanjungpriok — a port in Indonesia, on the NW coast of Java adjoining the capital, Jakarta: a major shipping and distributing centre for the whole archipelago
  • thaumatogeny — the belief that the origin of life was the result of a miracle
  • toboggan run — a slope that you can slide down on a toboggan
  • tongue graft — whip graft.
  • tongue-blade — a broad, thin piece of wood used by doctors to hold down the patient's tongue during an examination of the mouth and throat.
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