12-letter words containing t, o, n, g
- program note — A program note is an article written in a program for a play or concert that gives information about the performance or production.
- prolongation — the act of prolonging: the prolongation of a line.
- promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- propagandist — a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.
- propugnation — defence
- prostituting — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- protectingly — in a protective manner
- proteoglycan — a macromolecule composed of a polysaccharide joined to a polypeptide and forming the ground substance of connective tissue.
- puddingstone — any conglomerate rock having dark-colored, rounded pebbles that are embedded in a light-colored, fine-grained matrix
- pulling boat — a boat propelled by oars alone.
- pussyfooting — behaving in an excessively cautious way
- pyrogenicity — the characteristic of causing fever
- pyrognostics — the characteristics of a mineral, such as fusibility and flame coloration, that are revealed by the application of heat
- pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
- question tag — interrogative ending to a sentence
- questionings — Plural form of questioning.
- rat kangaroo — any of several rabbit-sized, ratlike Australian kangaroos of the subfamily Potoroinae.
- rat-kangaroo — any of several rabbit-sized, ratlike Australian kangaroos of the subfamily Potoroinae.
- reconnecting — to join, link, or fasten together; unite or bind: to connect the two cities by a bridge; Communication satellites connect the local stations into a network.
- redelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
- reformatting — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- regeneration — act of regenerating; state of being regenerated.
- register ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- registration — the act of registering.
- 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.
- reinvigorate — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- relitigation — the act or process of litigating: a matter that is still in litigation.
- remote login — (networking) A client-server program and protocol that provides an interactivel command line interface to a remote computer, using a protocol over a computer network, simulating a locally attached terminal.
- renegotiable — to negotiate again, as a loan, treaty, etc.
- renegotiated — to negotiate again, as a loan, treaty, etc.
- repagination — Bibliography. the number of pages or leaves of a book, manuscript, etc., identified in bibliographical description or cataloging.
- reregulation — renewed regulation, the act or process of regulating again
- retrocognate — being or pertaining to memory or extrasensory perception of past events.
- retrolingual — situated behind or near the base of the tongue.
- retromingent — urinating backward because of bodily configuration: The lion is a retromingent animal.
- revegetation — to cause vegetation to grow again on: to revegetate eroded lands.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- riding boots — long boots worn for horse-riding
- rigging loft — a loft or gallery in a boatbuilder's yard from which rigging can be fitted
- rigid motion — any transformation, as a translation or rotation, of a set such that the distance between points is preserved.
- ring network — (networking, topology) A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire in a ring or point-to-point. There are no endpoints. This topology is used by token ring networks. Compare: bus network, star network.
- ringing tone — phone: sound indicating connection is made
- risorgimento — the period of or the movement for the liberation and unification of Italy 1750–1870.
- roasting ear — an ear of sweet corn suitable for roasting while still in the husk.
- rock bunting — a seed-eating songbird, Emberiza cia
- rocket range — a firing range for rockets
- roentgen ray — (sometimes lowercase) x-ray.
- roofing felt — a type of tar paper made from glass fibre or polyester fleece impregnated with bituminous material, produced in roll form, and used in roof construction
- 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.