12-letter words containing s, u
- guinea grass — a grass, Panicum maximum, native to Africa, used for forage in warm regions of North and South America.
- gulf of siam — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
- gulf of suez — the NW arm of the Red Sea: linked with the Mediterranean by the Suez Canal
- gullibleness — Gullibility.
- gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
- gustav hertz — Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1887–1975, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1925.
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- gustavus iii — 1746–92, king of Sweden 1771–92: economic and legal reformer.
- gut instinct — an instinctive feeling, as opposed to an opinion or idea based on facts
- gut of canso — Canso (def 2).
- gutter press — press specializing in sensationalism
- guttersnipes — Plural form of guttersnipe.
- gutturalness — The quality of being guttural.
- gutturonasal — articulated in the back of the mouth and given resonance in the nasal cavity, as the sound represented by (ng) in (ring).
- gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- habitualness — The characteristic of being habitual.
- hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
- half measure — If someone refers to policies or actions as half measures, they are critical of them because they think that they are not forceful enough and are therefore of little value.
- half serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- half-serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- hallucinates — to have hallucinations.
- hallucinosis — a mental state characterized by repeated hallucinations.
- harbour dues — the fees or charges paid for using a harbour
- harbour seal — a common earless seal, Phoca vitulina, that is greyish-black with paler markings: found off the coasts of North America, N Europe, and NE Asia
- hard-surface — to make the surface of (something) hard or firm, as by compacting or paving it: to hard-surface a parking area.
- harmoniously — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- harmoniumist — a person who plays a harmonium
- harquebusier — a soldier armed with a harquebus.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- harum-scarum — reckless; rash; irresponsible: He had a harum-scarum youth.
- has no equal — If you say that someone or something has no equal, you think that there is nothing that is as good as them or that reaches the same standard.
- haussmannize — to rebuild in a similar fashion as Haussmann rebuilt Paris
- haute-savoie — a department in E France. 1775 sq. mi. (4595 sq. km). Capital: Annecy.
- hautes-alpes — a department in SE France. 2179 sq. mi. (5645 sq. km). Capital: Gap.
- hazel grouse — a European woodland grouse, Tetrastes bonasia, somewhat resembling the North American ruffed grouse.
- headquarters — a center of operations, as of the police or a business, from which orders are issued; the chief administrative office of an organization: The operatives were always in touch with headquarters.
- hearsay rule — the rule making hearsay evidence inadmissible.
- heartfulness — The state or quality of being heartful.
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- hectocotylus — a modified arm of the male of certain cephalopods that is used to transfer sperm to the female.
- helianthuses — Plural form of helianthus.
- helichrysums — Plural form of helichrysum.
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
- heliophilous — attracted to sunlight
- helium flash — the explosive burning of helium in the case of a star of low mass that occurs when the core is so dense that the matter has become degenerate. The burning causes a rapid rise in temperature until it is so high that the gas ceases to be degenerate, after which there is a rapid expansion
- hellaciously — In a hellacious manner.
- hellespontus — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.