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12-letter words containing p, u, t, i, n, g

  • recuperating — to recover from sickness or exhaustion; regain health or strength.
  • rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
  • slopping out — In prisons where prisoners have to use buckets as toilets, slopping out is the practice in which they empty the buckets.
  • sporting gun — a gun intended for hunting
  • sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
  • standing cup — a tall decorative cup of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, having a raised cover.
  • stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
  • stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
  • suet pudding — a pudding made of chopped beef suet and flour, boiled or steamed in a cloth, often with other ingredients, as raisins, spices, etc.
  • superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
  • supportingly — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
  • 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
  • touch-typing — the act of typing without having to look at the keys of the typewriter or computer keyboard
  • tramping hut — a hut in the bush for the use of trampers
  • tub-thumping — to promote something or express opinions vociferously.
  • tupi-guarani — a family of Indian languages including Tupi, Guarani, lingua geral, and many others of central South America.
  • two-pin plug — a plug that has two pins for inserting into a socket
  • unapologetic — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
  • unappetizing — appealing to or stimulating the appetite; savory.
  • unit pricing — the system of indicating the cost of a consumer product in terms of a standard unit of measure, as so much per pound, quart, or yard, in addition to the price per can, bottle, or piece.
  • unpretending — unpretentious; genuine
  • unprotesting — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
  • unsupporting — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
  • unsuspecting — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
  • wet puddling — puddling on a hearth rich in iron oxide so that carbon monoxide is generated, giving the iron the appearance of boiling.
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