12-letter words containing r, u, g, o
- hugh loebner — (person) Dr. Hugh Gene Loebner, the instigator of the Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence. E-mail address: Hugh Loebner <[email protected]>.
- hunting horn — the earliest form of the modern horn, consisting of a conical tube coiled in a circle for carrying over the shoulder, and having a flaring bell and a trumpetlike mouthpiece.
- hygrophilous — a plant that thrives in wet or very moist ground.
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- in the rough — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- in-congruent — not congruent.
- inauguration — an act or ceremony of inaugurating.
- inauguratory — Inaugural; being the first instance.
- income group — a group in a given population having incomes within a certain range
- incongruence — not congruent.
- incongruency — Incongruence.
- ingleborough — a mountain in N England, in North Yorkshire: potholes. Height: 723 m (2373 ft)
- ingloriously — In an inglorious manner.
- interborough — between boroughs.
- interwrought — having been interworked
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- jugal furrow — (in certain insects) the crease, between the anal and jugal veins, along which the wing folds.
- keratogenous — producing horn or a horny substance.
- keraunograph — an instrument for recording thunderstorms by detecting the radio waves generated
- ketone group — the characteristic group occurring in ketones that consists of the carbonyl group attached to two alkyl groups.
- kluge around — (jargon) To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a kluge. Compare workaround.
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- languorously — characterized by languor; languid.
- leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- ligulifloral — having strap-shaped flowers
- liturgiology — liturgics.
- live through — experience or endure
- live yoghurt — yoghurt that contains live bacteria
- lodging turn — a period of work or duty, esp among railway workers, which involves sleeping away from home
- long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
- long residue — Long residue is the heaviest fraction from the crude oil distillation process.
- long-running — Something that is long-running has been in existence, or has been performed, for a long time.
- look through — the opacity and texture of paper when inspected by transmitted light.
- look-through — the opacity and texture of paper when inspected by transmitted light.
- loop through — loop
- loughborough — a town in central England, in N Leicestershire: university (1966). Pop: 55 258 (2001)
- lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
- lower fungus — any of various fungi that do not produce well-organized fruiting bodies and primarily reproduce asexually, as the chytrids.
- lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
- lugubriosity — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
- lugubriously — In a lugubrious manner.
- luxembourger — a native or inhabitant of Luxembourg.
- luxury goods — expensive non-essential items
- macrophagous — (of an animal) feeding on relatively large particles of food
- major league — The major leagues are groups of professional sports teams that compete against each other, especially in American baseball.
- major-league — Sports. of, relating to, or characteristic of the major leagues.
- majorleaguer — either of the two main professional baseball leagues in the U.S.
- manoeuvering — Present participle of manoeuver.
- manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.