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

  • 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.
  • gutturalness — The quality of being guttural.
  • gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
  • 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).
  • hunting case — a watchcase with a hinged cover to protect the crystal.
  • ingurgitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingurgitate.
  • 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.
  • keratogenous — producing horn or a horny substance.
  • langoustines — Plural form of langoustine.
  • languishment — the act or state of languishing.
  • laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
  • 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.
  • magnetopause — the boundary between the earth's magnetosphere and interplanetary space, about 40,000 miles (65,000 km) above the earth, marked by an abrupt decrease in the earth's magnetic induction.
  • manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
  • mao tse-tung — 1893–1976, Chinese Communist leader: chairman of the People's Republic of China 1949–59; chairman of the Chinese Communist Party 1943–76.
  • 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.
  • mesogastrium — the mesentery of the embryonic stomach.
  • mesognathous — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
  • message unit — a measure of the duration of and distance covered by local telephone calls, used by telephone companies as a basis for assessing service charges.
  • metagnathous — Ornithology. having the tips of the mandibles crossed, as the crossbills.
  • metallurgist — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
  • misconjugate — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
  • misfeaturing — distorting the features
  • mutable sign — any of the four astrological signs, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, or Pisces, that are grouped together because of their placement at the end of the seasons and characterized by the attribute of adaptability to circumstances.
  • naughty step — a place where a child is made to stand as a punishment for bad behaviour
  • nauseatingly — causing sickness of the stomach; nauseous.
  • neutralising — Present participle of neutralise.
  • nugatoriness — Quality of being nugatory.
  • nutmeg state — Connecticut (used as a nickname).
  • obtuse angle — an angle greater than 90° but less than 180°.
  • outrageously — In an outrageous manner; to an outrageous degree.
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • 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.
  • paying guest — lodger
  • postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
  • question tag — interrogative ending to a sentence
  • sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
  • saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
  • sausage meat — minced and processed pork
  • sausage tree — a tropical African tree, Kigelia pinnata, having red, bell-shaped flowers and large, sausage-shaped fruits hanging from very long stalks.
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • secretagogue — a substance or situation that promotes secretion.
  • septuagesima — the third Sunday before Lent.
  • 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.
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