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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.
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