12-letter words containing s, a, g, u, i
- sauk village — a town in NE Illinois.
- saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
- scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
- scuba diving — deep-sea swimming
- semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
- septuagesima — the third Sunday before Lent.
- shijiazhuang — a province in NE China. 81,479 sq. mi. (211,031 sq. km). Capital: Shijiazhuang.
- simple sugar — monosaccharide.
- skating turn — a turn made by someone on roller or ice skates
- slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
- sofa surfing — (of a homeless person) the practice of staying temporarily with various friends and relatives while attempting to find permanent accommodation
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- spade guinea — a guinea decorated with a spade-shaped shield, coined during the reign of George III
- spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
- sporangiolum — a small sporangium
- spud-bashing — the task of peeling potatoes, given as a punishment
- spur gearing — a system of spur gears.
- squared ring — boxing ring.
- stag hunting — the act of hunting or chasing and killing stags
- 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.
- steel guitar — an acoustic, handheld guitar having a metal resonator and producing a wailing, variable sound.
- stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
- storage unit — rented space to store items
- straight out — thoroughgoing: a straight-out Democrat.
- straight-out — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- strain gauge — Geology. a type of extensometer designed for geophysical use.
- studdingsail — a light sail, sometimes set outboard of either of the leeches of a square sail and extended by booms.
- studio glass — art glass produced by an independent artisan in the studio.
- submicrogram — containing or relating to a mass of less than one microgram
- sugar glider — a gliding possum, Petaurus breviceps, inhabiting open forests of New Guinea, Tasmania, and Australia.
- sugarcoating — the act or process of covering something with sugar.
- sugaring off — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- superglacial — on the surface of a glacier.
- supergravity — a hypothetical symmetry among groups of particles containing fermions and bosons, especially in theories of gravity (supergravity) that unify electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force with gravity into a single unified force.
- superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
- superhighway — a highway designed for travel at high speeds, having more than one lane for each direction of traffic, a safety strip dividing the two directions, and cloverleaves to route the traffic on and off the highway. Compare expressway.
- superorganic — of or relating to the structure of cultural elements within society conceived as independent of and superior to the individual members of society.
- surf casting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
- surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
- surpassingly — of a large amount or high degree; exceeding, excelling, or extraordinary: structures of surpassing magnificence.
- survival bag — a large plastic bag carried by climbers for use in an emergency as protection against exposure
- swine plague — hemorrhagic septicemia of hogs, caused by the bacterium Pasteurella suiseptica, characterized by an accompanying infection of pneumonia.
- swiss guards — a corps of Swiss mercenary soldiers, esp. those hired as Vatican bodyguards to the pope
- 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.
- tasting menu — a fixed-price restaurant meal or menu consisting of small portions of numerous dishes: We ordered the 6-course tasting menu for $125.
- traumatising — Pathology. to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.
- tsunamigenic — producing a tsunami or tsunamis
- turn against — become hostile to
- ubangi-shari — former name of the Central African Republic.