12-letter words containing s, i, g, u, r
- distress gun — a gun fired at one-minute intervals as a signal of distress.
- distributing — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- dramaturgist — A person who composes a drama and directs its representation; a playwright.
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- elytrigerous — having elytra
- embourgeoise — to make bourgeois
- enduringness — The quality of being enduring; lastingness.
- eurosterling — sterling as part of a European holding
- excursioning — Present participle of excursion.
- extinguisher — Anything that extinguishes something; but especially a fire extinguisher.
- fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
- figure skate — a shoe skate used in figure skating, especially one having a blade shorter than that of a racing skate, usually not extending beyond the toe or heel, and with notches or sawteeth on the curved forward edge.
- figure-skate — to take part in figure skating
- figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
- firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
- flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
- foresightful — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
- fund-raising — the act or process of raising funds, as for nonprofit organizations or for a political cause.
- futurologist — (sometimes initial capital letter) a follower of futurism, especially an artist or writer.
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- gaius marius — Gaius, c155–86 b.c, Roman general and consul: opponent of Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
- galeniferous — Of a mineral or deposit that contains galena.
- gastrulation — the formation of a gastrula.
- geraniaceous — belonging to the Geraniaceae, the geranium family of plants.
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- glomerulitis — inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney.
- gloriousness — delightful; wonderful; completely enjoyable: to have a glorious time at the circus.
- graciousness — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- gradualistic — Of or pertaining to gradualism.
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- gran turismo — (of an automobile) certified as conforming to the specifications, as fuel capacity and engine displacement, for a class of standard automobiles (Gran Turismo) qualified to engage in various types of competitions. Abbreviation: GTO.
- granulations — Plural form of granulation.
- gratuitously — given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary.
- gratulations — a feeling of joy.
- graustarkian — of, like, or characteristic of colorful, implausible, highly melodramatic and romantic situations or circumstances
- gregariously — fond of the company of others; sociable.
- grievousness — causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
- griseofulvin — an antibiotic, C 17 H 17 ClO 6 , obtained from a species of Penicillium, used in the treatment of ringworm and other fungous infections of the skin.
- grossularite — a mineral, calcium aluminum garnet, Ca 3 Al 2 Si 3 O 12 , occurring in gray-white to pinkish crystals.
- grotesquerie — Grotesque quality or grotesque things collectively.
- grudgingness — The state or quality of grudging.
- guardianista — a reader of the Guardian newspaper, seen as being typically left-wing, liberal, and politically correct
- guardianship — the position and responsibilities of a guardian, especially toward a ward.
- guinea grass — a grass, Panicum maximum, native to Africa, used for forage in warm regions of North and South America.
- guttersnipes — Plural form of guttersnipe.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.