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12-letter words containing t, a, u, g

  • gut reaction — instinctive response
  • gutta-percha — the milky juice, nearly white when pure, of various Malaysian trees of the sapodilla family, especially Palaquium gutta.
  • gutturalized — pronounced with guttural coarticulation.
  • 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).
  • gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
  • half-turning — split spindle.
  • head-hunting — a headhunting expedition: The men left the village to go on a headhunt.
  • heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
  • height gauge — an object used to measure the height of somebody or something, for example to measure the height of people for medical purposes
  • hematogenous — originating in the blood.
  • hepatogenous — originating in the liver
  • heterogamous — Genetics. having unlike gametes, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to isogamous).
  • high-quality — adhering to an excellent standard of measure; of superior quality: Education depends on high-quality teachers and materials in our schools.
  • highfaluting — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
  • human rights — basic civil freedoms
  • 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.
  • hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
  • 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.
  • illuminating — to enlighten, as with knowledge.
  • illustrating — Present participle of illustrate.
  • inaugurating — to make a formal beginning of; initiate; commence; begin: The end of World War II inaugurated the era of nuclear power.
  • inauguration — an act or ceremony of inaugurating.
  • inauguratory — Inaugural; being the first instance.
  • ingurgitated — Simple past tense and past participle of ingurgitate.
  • ingurgitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingurgitate.
  • inosculating — Present participle of inosculate.
  • interlingual — pertaining to or using two or more languages: an interlingual dictionary.
  • intralingual — within a given language; of or pertaining to a single language.
  • 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.
  • irregularity — the quality or state of being irregular.
  • jaunting car — a light, two-wheeled, one-horse cart, once common in Ireland, having two seats set back to back, with a perch in front for the driver.
  • judgment day — the day of the Last Judgment; doomsday.
  • judgmentally — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
  • juggling act — If you say that a situation is a juggling act, you mean that someone is trying to do two or more things at once, and that they are finding it difficult to do those things properly.
  • jumpstarting — Present participle of jumpstart.
  • keratogenous — producing horn or a horny substance.
  • langoustines — Plural form of langoustine.
  • languishment — the act or state of languishing.
  • lark bunting — a finch, Calamospiza melanocorys, of the western U.S., the male of which is black with a large, white patch on each wing.
  • laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
  • leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
  • league match — a match played between teams in a league (as opposed to an international game)
  • league table — competitive ranking
  • left luggage — baggage stored temporarily
  • legislatures — a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
  • lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
  • linguistical — (not in technical use) linguistic.
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