12-letter words containing s, u, n, g
- hepatogenous — originating in the liver
- 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.
- higgs bugson — (humour) A hypothetical bug predicted to exist based on a small number of possibly related event log entries and vague anecdotal user reports. The Higgs Bugson is difficult to reproduce because you don't really know if it's there, and if it is there what is causing it. To find one you will need a Large Hadron Debugger.
- honey fungus — an edible basidiomycetous fungus, Armillaria mellea, having a yellow-spotted cap and wrinkled stems, parasitic on the roots of woody plants, which it may kill by root rot. It spreads by thin black underground strands
- 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
- hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
- human rights — basic civil freedoms
- hummingbirds — Plural form of hummingbird.
- hunger pangs — sudden strong feelings of hunger
- hunt sabbing — the activity of sabotaging a hunt due to the belief that animals should not be harmed by humans
- hunting case — a watchcase with a hinged cover to protect the crystal.
- hunting dogs — the constellation Canes Venatici.
- hypognathous — having the lower jaw or mandible longer than the upper.
- ignis fatuus — Also called friar's lantern, will-o'-the-wisp. a flitting phosphorescent light seen at night, chiefly over marshy ground, and believed to be due to spontaneous combustion of gas from decomposed organic matter.
- illustrating — Present participle of illustrate.
- 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.
- indulgencies — indulgence.
- ingloriously — In an inglorious manner.
- ingurgitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingurgitate.
- inosculating — Present participle of inosculate.
- insightfully — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
- 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.
- jelly fungus — any of various fungi of the order Tremellales, distinguished by gelatinous basidiocarp.
- 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.
- jumpstarting — Present participle of jumpstart.
- jungle books — a series of jungle stories in two volumes (1894, 1895) by Rudyard Kipling.
- justifyingly — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
- k'ung fu-tse — Chinese name of Confucius.
- 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.
- kneeling bus — a bus that can lower its body or entrance door to facilitate boarding by the elderly or people with disabilities.
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- laguna hills — a city in SW California.
- langoustines — Plural form of langoustine.
- languageless — without language or a language
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- languorously — characterized by languor; languid.
- laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
- laughing gas — nitrous oxide.