12-letter words containing s, u, n, g, r, e
- ground rules — Usually, ground rules. basic or governing principles of conduct in any situation or field of endeavor: the ground rules of press conferences.
- ground state — the state of least energy of a particle, as an atom, or of a system of particles.
- groundedness — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
- groundlessly — In a groundless manner; without justification.
- groundsheets — Plural form of groundsheet.
- groundstroke — A stroke played after the ball has bounced, as opposed to a volley.
- grudgingness — The state or quality of grudging.
- gruesomeness — The characteristic or quality of being gruesome.
- 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.
- gutturalness — The quality of being guttural.
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- heterogenous — having its source or origin outside the organism; having a foreign origin.
- heterogonous — Botany. of or relating to monoclinous flowers of two or more kinds occurring on different individuals of the same species, the kinds differing in the relative length of stamens and pistils (opposed to homogonous).
- heterogynous — having females of two different kinds, one sexual and the other abortive or neuter, as ants.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
- hunger pangs — sudden strong feelings of hunger
- ingurgitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingurgitate.
- insurgencies — Plural form of insurgency.
- interregnums — Plural form of interregnum.
- invert sugar — a mixture of the dextrorotatory forms of glucose and fructose, formed naturally in fruits and produced artificially in syrups or fondants by treating cane sugar with acids.
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- keratogenous — producing horn or a horny substance.
- laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- ligurian sea — a part of the Mediterranean between Corsica and the NW coast of Italy.
- 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.
- lower fungus — any of various fungi that do not produce well-organized fruiting bodies and primarily reproduce asexually, as the chytrids.
- maneuverings — Plural form of maneuvering.
- manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
- manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
- masquerading — a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes.
- 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.
- menstruating — to undergo menstruation.
- messeigneurs — plural of Monseigneur.
- microsurgeon — a person who performs microsurgery
- misconfigure — Configure (a system or part of it) incorrectly.
- misfeaturing — distorting the features
- necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
- neurogenesis — The growth and development of nervous tissue.
- neurologists — Plural form of neurologist.
- neurosurgeon — surgery of the brain or other nerve tissue.
- neurosurgery — surgery of the brain or other nerve tissue.
- neutralising — Present participle of neutralise.
- nonreligious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- nugatoriness — Quality of being nugatory.
- numbers game — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
- numerologist — A practitioner of numerology.