12-letter words containing r, e, u, g
- over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
- over-running — to rove over (a country, region, etc.); invade; ravage: a time when looting hordes had overrun the province.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- overgenerous — liberal in giving or sharing; unselfish: a generous patron of the arts; a generous gift.
- overregulate — to apply rules and regulations excessively to (something)
- oversanguine — too optimistic
- package tour — a planned tour in which one fee is charged for all expenses: offering package tours of the chateau country.
- palace guard — the security force protecting a palace.
- paraguay tea — maté.
- paralanguage — vocal features that accompany speech and contribute to communication but are not generally considered to be part of the language system, as vocal quality, loudness, and tempo: sometimes also including facial expressions and gestures.
- parent group — a large organization that owns a number of smaller separate commercial or industrial firms
- paring gouge — a woodworker's gouge having the bezel on the concave face.
- parlour game — A parlour game is a game that is played indoors by families or at parties, for example a guessing game.
- pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- pentyl group — any of the univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 5 H 1 1 –.
- peroxy group — the bivalent group –O 2 –, derived from hydrogen peroxide.
- perpetuating — to make perpetual.
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- peterborough — a city in Cambridgeshire, in central England.
- petrol gauge — a gauge that indicates the amount of petrol left in the tank of a vehicle
- phenyl group — the univalent group C 6 H 5 –, derived from benzene.
- photogravure — any of various processes, based on photography, by which an intaglio engraving is formed on a metal plate, from which ink reproductions are made.
- pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
- pipe routing — Pipe routing is the planning of pipeline layout, which includes considerations of neatness, economy, and safety.
- pleurogenous — Anatomy. pertaining to or originating from the pleura.
- plough horse — a horse used for pulling a plough
- pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
- pork sausage — a sausage made with pork
- postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
- pre-language — a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language; the Yiddish language.
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- preinaugural — occurring before an inauguration
- prejudgement — to judge beforehand.
- prelingually — in a prelingual manner
- preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
- pro-suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
- producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
- pseudography — writing that does not follow conventional spelling or usage
- pudding rice — a type of short-grained rice that is suitable for making into a rice pudding
- puppeteering — a person who manipulates puppets, as in a puppet show.
- put together — assemble
- pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
- quadragesima — the first Sunday in Lent.
- 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.
- queen regent — a queen who reigns in behalf of another.