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12-letter words containing t, o, n, g, u

  • regulation t — (in the U.S.) a federal law governing the amount of credit that may be advanced by brokers and dealers to customers for the purchase of securities on margin.
  • regulation u — (in the U.S.) a federal law governing the amount of credit that may be advanced by a bank for the purchase of listed securities.
  • reregulation — renewed regulation, the act or process of regulating again
  • retrolingual — situated behind or near the base of the tongue.
  • ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
  • rock bunting — a seed-eating songbird, Emberiza cia
  • running knot — a knot made around and so as to slide along a part of the same rope, thus forming a noose (running noose) that tightens as the rope is pulled.
  • rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
  • sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • 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.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
  • silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
  • slopping out — In prisons where prisoners have to use buckets as toilets, slopping out is the practice in which they empty the buckets.
  • snow bunting — a bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis, of the northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere having white plumage.
  • south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • south-facing — facing towards the south
  • sporting gun — a gun intended for hunting
  • stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
  • stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
  • stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
  • 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
  • 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.
  • stuffing box — a device for preventing leakage of gases or liquids along a moving rod or shaft at the point at which it leaves a cylinder, tank, ship hull, etc.
  • sugarcoating — the act or process of covering something with sugar.
  • supportingly — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
  • tag question — Also called tag. a short interrogative structure appended to a statement or command, as isn't it in It's raining, isn't it?, are you in You're not going, are you?, or German nicht wahr.
  • tanjungpriok — a port in Indonesia, on the NW coast of Java adjoining the capital, Jakarta: a major shipping and distributing centre for the whole archipelago
  • thaumatogeny — the belief that the origin of life was the result of a miracle
  • thoroughness — executed without negligence or omissions: a thorough search.
  • through-line — a theme or idea that runs from the beginning to the end of a book, film, etc
  • through-sung — sung throughout, with no spoken dialogue
  • to ring true — If a statement rings true, it seems to be true or genuine. If it rings hollow, it does not seem to be true or genuine.
  • toboggan run — a slope that you can slide down on a toboggan
  • tongue cover — a loose-leaf binding having a flap of the cover concealing the binding posts.
  • tongue graft — whip graft.
  • tongue-blade — a broad, thin piece of wood used by doctors to hold down the patient's tongue during an examination of the mouth and throat.
  • tooth fungus — any of various mushrooms of the family Hydnaceae (and, in some classifications, allied families), having on the underside of the cap numerous conical spines rather than gills or pores.
  • touch and go — precarious situation
  • touch ground — (of a ship) to strike the sea bed
  • touch-and-go — risky; precarious: a touch-and-go descent down the mountain.
  • touch-typing — the act of typing without having to look at the keys of the typewriter or computer keyboard
  • tough-minded — characterized by a practical, unsentimental attitude or point of view.
  • tour manager — the person in charge of an organized trip that people such as musicians, or actors go on to several different places, stopping to meet people or perform
  • trojan group — a group of asteroids oscillating about either of two points, equidistant from the sun and Jupiter, that forms an equilateral triangle with the sun and Jupiter.
  • tumbling box — a box, pivoted at two corners, used in the manner of a tumbling barrel.
  • turbo engine — an engine containing a turbocharger
  • turkoman rug — any of a number of handwoven rugs produced by the Turkomans and characterized by coarse warp and filling yarn, a short, even pile made with the Sehna knot, and a variety of geometric, marine, and serpentine designs.
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