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12-letter words containing s, e, a, g, u

  • sausage code — (humour, programming)   Code which, once you know the details of how it's made, you'll never want to use again.
  • sausage curl — a lock of hair formed into a curl resembling a sausage in shape.
  • sausage meat — minced and processed pork
  • sausage roll — A sausage roll is a small amount of sausage meat which is covered with pastry and cooked.
  • sausage tree — a tropical African tree, Kigelia pinnata, having red, bell-shaped flowers and large, sausage-shaped fruits hanging from very long stalks.
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • secretagogue — a substance or situation that promotes secretion.
  • semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
  • septuagesima — the third Sunday before Lent.
  • sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
  • shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
  • simple sugar — monosaccharide.
  • slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
  • slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
  • slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
  • sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
  • south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • sov language — a type of language that has basic subject-object-verb order, as Turkish, Japanese, or Tamil.
  • spade guinea — a guinea decorated with a spade-shaped shield, coined during the reign of George III
  • spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
  • sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
  • spur gearing — a system of spur gears.
  • squared ring — boxing ring.
  • stage-struck — obsessed with the desire to become an actor or actress.
  • stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
  • stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
  • steatopygous — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
  • steel guitar — an acoustic, handheld guitar having a metal resonator and producing a wailing, variable sound.
  • stegocarpous — (of a moss) belonging to the division Stegocarpi, having an operculate capsule
  • stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
  • stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
  • stepdaughter — a daughter of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
  • storage tube — an electron tube in which information is stored as charges for a predetermined time
  • storage unit — rented space to store items
  • strain gauge — Geology. a type of extensometer designed for geophysical use.
  • stun grenade — a nonlethal grenade which is used to disturb the senses of enemies by its loud noise and its bright light
  • sub-mortgage — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
  • subaggregate — a subtotal
  • suckers' gap — a temporary improvement, occurring between two periods of inclement weather, which deceives people into acting in expectation of continued fine weather
  • sugar glider — a gliding possum, Petaurus breviceps, inhabiting open forests of New Guinea, Tasmania, and Australia.
  • sugar shaker — a container with holes in the top, used for sprinkling sugar onto food
  • sugar-coated — Sugar-coated food is covered with a sweet substance made of sugar.
  • supercharged — equipped with a supercharger.
  • supercharger — a mechanism for forcing air into an internal-combustion engine in order to increase engine power.
  • supererogate — to do more than duty requires.
  • superglacial — on the surface of a glacier.
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