12-letter words containing s, e, g, u
- 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.
- schizogenous — schizogenetic.
- sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
- second-guess — to use hindsight in criticizing or correcting.
- secretagogue — a substance or situation that promotes secretion.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- sell-through — quantity of direct sales made
- semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
- seo de urgel — Urgel.
- septuagesima — the third Sunday before Lent.
- setting rule — a metal strip used in the hand-setting of type in a composing stick to separate the line being set from the previous one
- 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).
- shelf fungus — bracket fungus
- 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.
- sight unseen — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- simple group — a group that has no normal subgroup except the group itself and the identity.
- simple sugar — monosaccharide.
- single-issue — pertaining or devoted to one public issue only, especially a political one: single-issue voters.
- skullduggery — skulduggery.
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
- slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
- sliding rule — (formerly) a slide rule.
- slubberingly — in a slubbering or slovenly manner
- slumberingly — in a slumbering manner
- solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
- sooty grouse — blue grouse.
- sorghum beer — beer made from sorghum or millet
- 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
- spencer gulf — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in S Australia, between the Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas. Length: about 320 km (200 miles). Greatest width: about 145 km (90 miles)
- spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
- spermogonium — one of the cup-shaped or flask-shaped receptacles in which the spermatia of certain fungi and red algae are produced.
- spirit guide — type of mystical guardian
- sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
- spur gearing — a system of spur gears.
- sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
- 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.