12-letter words containing o, n, g, u, a
- touch and go — precarious situation
- touch-and-go — risky; precarious: a touch-and-go descent down the mountain.
- tour manager — the person in charge of an organized trip that people such as musicians, or actors go on to several different places, stopping to meet people or perform
- trojan group — a group of asteroids oscillating about either of two points, equidistant from the sun and Jupiter, that forms an equilateral triangle with the sun and Jupiter.
- turkoman rug — any of a number of handwoven rugs produced by the Turkomans and characterized by coarse warp and filling yarn, a short, even pile made with the Sehna knot, and a variety of geometric, marine, and serpentine designs.
- un-ignorable — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- unapologetic — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
- unbiological — pertaining to biology.
- uncatalogued — not added to or detailed in a catalogue
- uncoagulated — Obsolete. coagulated.
- uncognizable — capable of being perceived or known.
- uncollegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
- unconcealing — not concealing or hiding anything; revealing
- unconjugated — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
- uncourageous — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
- undercoating — a coat or jacket worn under another.
- unecological — the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms.
- unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- unforgivably — in an unforgivable manner
- unglamorized — not glamorized
- unglamourous — full of glamour; charmingly or fascinatingly attractive, especially in a mysterious or magical way.
- ungovernable — impossible to govern, rule, or restrain; uncontrollable.
- ungraciously — in an ungracious manner
- ungratuitous — given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary.
- unmoralising — not moralising
- unmoralizing — not moralizing
- unmotivating — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- unnegotiable — capable of being negotiated: a negotiable salary demand.
- unnegotiated — to deal or bargain with another or others, as in the preparation of a treaty or contract or in preliminaries to a business deal.
- unobligatory — required as a matter of obligation; mandatory: A reply is desirable but not obligatory.
- unoriginated — not originated
- unoxygenated — not enriched with oxygen
- unprogrammed — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- unvoyageable — not able to be sailed or otherwise journeyed over; untraversable; innavigable
- up and doing — busy; active
- urbanologist — a sociologist specializing in urban life and problems
- urinogenital — genitourinary.
- vaginicolous — living in a sheath
- vainglorious — filled with or given to vainglory: a vainglorious actor.
- vso language — a type of language that has basic verb-subject-object word order, as Welsh, classical Arabic, or Tagalog.
- vulvovaginal — relating to the external female genitals
- waking hours — Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.
- walking tour — a tour on which you walk rather than using transport
- waste ground — an empty piece of land
- wing formula — a numerical representation of the relative lengths of the primary feathers of a bird's wing, used in identifying similar species, as flycatchers.
- younger edda — either of two old Icelandic literary works, one a collection of poems on mythical and religious subjects (or) erroneously attributed to Saemund Sigfusson (c1055–1133), the other a collection of ancient Scandinavian myths and legends, rules and theories of versification, poems, etc. (or) compiled and written in part by Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241).
- younger hand — (in piquet and similar card games) the dealer
- younghusband — Sir Francis Edward. 1863–1942, British explorer, mainly of N India and Tibet. He used military force to compel the Dalai Lama to sign (1904) a trade agreement with Britain
- zhang zuolin — Chang Tso-lin.