12-letter words containing s, u, r, g, e, n
- nursing home — a private residential institution equipped to care for persons unable to look after themselves, as the aged or chronically ill.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- overgenerous — liberal in giving or sharing; unselfish: a generous patron of the arts; a generous gift.
- oversanguine — too optimistic
- pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- pleurogenous — Anatomy. pertaining to or originating from the pleura.
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
- rag business — the garment, clothing, or fashion industry.
- rauschenberg — Robert, 1925–2008, U.S. artist.
- reassuringly — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- refurnishing — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
- resoundingly — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- rogue's yarn — a yarn of distinctive color, material, or twist, laid in a strand or strands of a rope to identify the owner or the maker.
- rough-spoken — coarse or vulgar in speech.
- running shoe — trainer, sneaker
- safe surfing — the practice of using security measures to protect one's computer while surfing the internet
- sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
- saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
- sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
- 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
- sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- sliding rule — (formerly) a slide rule.
- slubberingly — in a slubbering or slovenly manner
- slumberingly — in a slumbering manner
- south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
- spencer gulf — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in S Australia, between the Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas. Length: about 320 km (200 miles). Greatest width: about 145 km (90 miles)
- spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
- spermogonium — one of the cup-shaped or flask-shaped receptacles in which the spermatia of certain fungi and red algae are produced.
- spur gearing — a system of spur gears.
- sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
- squared ring — boxing ring.
- stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
- stone-ground — (of wheat or other grain) ground between millstones, especially those made of burstone, so as to retain the whole of the grain and preserve nutritional content.
- storage unit — rented space to store items
- strain gauge — Geology. a type of extensometer designed for geophysical use.
- stringcourse — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- stun grenade — a nonlethal grenade which is used to disturb the senses of enemies by its loud noise and its bright light
- 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.
- sunscreening — the use of sunscreens
- super-urgent — compelling or requiring immediate action or attention; imperative; pressing: an urgent matter.
- supercooling — to cool (a liquid) below its freezing point without producing solidification or crystallization; undercool.
- superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.