12-letter words containing o, u, t, i, n, g
- outthrusting — Present participle of outthrust.
- pipe routing — Pipe routing is the planning of pipeline layout, which includes considerations of neatness, economy, and safety.
- port running — an evasive action at a port of entry in which a person drives through a vehicle-stopping point.
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- propugnation — defence
- prostituting — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- puddingstone — any conglomerate rock having dark-colored, rounded pebbles that are embedded in a light-colored, fine-grained matrix
- pulling boat — a boat propelled by oars alone.
- pussyfooting — behaving in an excessively cautious way
- question tag — interrogative ending to a sentence
- questionings — Plural form of questioning.
- 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.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- rock bunting — a seed-eating songbird, Emberiza cia
- running knot — a knot made around and so as to slide along a part of the same rope, thus forming a noose (running noose) that tightens as the rope is pulled.
- rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
- sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
- shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- slopping out — In prisons where prisoners have to use buckets as toilets, slopping out is the practice in which they empty the buckets.
- snow bunting — a bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis, of the northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere having white plumage.
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- sporting gun — a gun intended for hunting
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
- storage unit — rented space to store items
- stringcourse — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- stuffing box — a device for preventing leakage of gases or liquids along a moving rod or shaft at the point at which it leaves a cylinder, tank, ship hull, etc.
- sugarcoating — the act or process of covering something with sugar.
- supportingly — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- 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
- through-line — a theme or idea that runs from the beginning to the end of a book, film, etc
- to ring true — If a statement rings true, it seems to be true or genuine. If it rings hollow, it does not seem to be true or genuine.
- touch-typing — the act of typing without having to look at the keys of the typewriter or computer keyboard
- tough-minded — characterized by a practical, unsentimental attitude or point of view.
- tumbling box — a box, pivoted at two corners, used in the manner of a tumbling barrel.
- turbo engine — an engine containing a turbocharger
- two-pin plug — a plug that has two pins for inserting into a socket
- ufo sighting — the sighting of a UFO
- unapologetic — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
- uncollegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
- uncomforting — affording comfort or solace.
- uncommitting — to give in trust or charge; consign.
- unconsenting — to permit, approve, or agree; comply or yield (often followed by to or an infinitive): He consented to the proposal. We asked her permission, and she consented.
- undercoating — a coat or jacket worn under another.