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12-letter words containing s, u, g, o

  • house league — a sports league in which the members of all teams belong to the same organization, school, or company
  • house lights — lights of a residential building
  • house of god — Also called house of worship, house of prayer. a building devoted to religious worship; a church, synagogue, temple, chapel, etc.
  • housekeeping — the maintenance of a house or domestic establishment.
  • housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • housing list — a list of people waiting to obtain council houses
  • hunting dogs — the constellation Canes Venatici.
  • hygrophilous — a plant that thrives in wet or very moist ground.
  • hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
  • hypognathous — having the lower jaw or mandible longer than the upper.
  • immunologist — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
  • impetiginous — a contagious skin disease, especially of children, usually caused by streptococcal bacteria, marked by a superficial pustular eruption, particularly on the face.
  • incontiguous — not continuous; unconnected; discrete
  • indigenously — originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often followed by to): the plants indigenous to Canada; the indigenous peoples of southern Africa.
  • indologenous — producing or causing the production of indole.
  • ingloriously — In an inglorious manner.
  • inosculating — Present participle of inosculate.
  • isotopologue — (chemistry) any of a group of compounds only differing in their isotopic composition; for example water and heavy water.
  • jogging suit — an outfit consisting of sweat pants and a sweatshirt, used while exercising or as sportswear.
  • johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
  • jungle books — a series of jungle stories in two volumes (1894, 1895) by Rudyard Kipling.
  • keratogenous — producing horn or a horny substance.
  • king's scout — (in Great Britain) a boy scout who has achieved the highest level of scouting: similar to the U.S. eagle scout.
  • laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
  • langoustines — Plural form of langoustine.
  • languorously — characterized by languor; languid.
  • ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
  • lithophagous — swallowing or feeding on stones
  • loganiaceous — belonging to the plant family Loganiaceae.
  • logodaedalus — a person who uses words with skill or cunning
  • long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
  • long residue — Long residue is the heaviest fraction from the crude oil distillation process.
  • louise boganLouise, 1897–1970, U.S. poet.
  • lounge music — a type of popular music often including jazz, swing, and pop elements and played in cocktail lounges, piano bars, etc.
  • lower fungus — any of various fungi that do not produce well-organized fruiting bodies and primarily reproduce asexually, as the chytrids.
  • lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
  • lugubriosity — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
  • lugubriously — In a lugubrious manner.
  • luxury goods — expensive non-essential items
  • macrophagous — (of an animal) feeding on relatively large particles of food
  • magnetopause — the boundary between the earth's magnetosphere and interplanetary space, about 40,000 miles (65,000 km) above the earth, marked by an abrupt decrease in the earth's magnetic induction.
  • mallophagous — of or relating to any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga
  • manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
  • mao tse-tung — 1893–1976, Chinese Communist leader: chairman of the People's Republic of China 1949–59; chairman of the Chinese Communist Party 1943–76.
  • meetinghouse — A Quaker place of worship.
  • meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
  • melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
  • mesogastrium — the mesentery of the embryonic stomach.
  • mesognathous — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
  • metagnathous — Ornithology. having the tips of the mandibles crossed, as the crossbills.
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