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12-letter words containing s, i, n, g, u, l

  • plunge basin — a cavity at the base of a falls or cataract, formed by the action of the falling water.
  • pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
  • pull strings — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
  • push polling — the use of loaded questions in a supposedly objective telephone opinion poll during a political campaign in order to bias voters against an opposing candidate
  • pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
  • quacksalving — resembling or characteristic of a quacksalver
  • reassuringly — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
  • rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
  • resoundingly — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
  • sanguicolous — living in the blood, as a parasite.
  • sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
  • saronic gulf — an inlet of the Aegean, on the SE coast of Greece, between Attica and the Peloponnesus. 50 miles (80 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.
  • saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
  • 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
  • shipbuilding — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
  • 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.
  • single-issue — pertaining or devoted to one public issue only, especially a political one: single-issue voters.
  • sitting bull — 1834–90, American Indian warrior: leader of the Hunkpapa; victor at Little Bighorn, 1876.
  • sliding rule — (formerly) a slide rule.
  • slopping out — In prisons where prisoners have to use buckets as toilets, slopping out is the practice in which they empty the buckets.
  • slow-burning — (of combustible material) burning relatively slowly
  • slubberingly — in a slubbering or slovenly manner
  • slumberingly — in a slumbering manner
  • spoil ground — an area within a body of water, especially in the sea, where dredged material is deposited.
  • spongicolous — relating to the skeleton of some marine animals
  • sporangiolum — a small sporangium
  • sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
  • stud welding — the semiautomatic welding of a stud or similar piece of metal to a flat part, usually by means of an electric arc
  • studdingsail — a light sail, sometimes set outboard of either of the leeches of a square sail and extended by booms.
  • stunt flying — the activity or practice of performing stunts in an aeroplane, such as special turns, etc, in the air
  • stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
  • sub-religion — a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
  • succeedingly — being that which follows; subsequent; ensuing: laws to benefit succeeding generations.
  • suckling pig — piglet not yet weaned
  • supercooling — to cool (a liquid) below its freezing point without producing solidification or crystallization; undercool.
  • supportingly — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
  • surpassingly — of a large amount or high degree; exceeding, excelling, or extraordinary: structures of surpassing magnificence.
  • surprisingly — causing surprise, wonder, or astonishment.
  • swine plague — hemorrhagic septicemia of hogs, caused by the bacterium Pasteurella suiseptica, characterized by an accompanying infection of pneumonia.
  • unaspiringly — in an unambitious or unaspiring manner
  • unassignable — not able to be transferred
  • unassumingly — modest; unpretentious.
  • undersealing — the process of applying a coating of underseal to a motor vehicle
  • undesignedly — in an undesigned manner
  • undigestible — indigestible.
  • undissolving — not dissolving; remaining in solid form; not melting
  • ungraciously — in an ungracious manner
  • unlovingness — an unloving quality or character
  • unmoralising — not moralising
  • unpleasingly — in an unpleasing manner
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