12-letter words containing t, u, g
- heterologous — Biology. of different origin; pertaining to heterology.
- heterozygous — having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
- high country — a mountainous area below the timberline; a forested mountain area.
- high-quality — adhering to an excellent standard of measure; of superior quality: Education depends on high-quality teachers and materials in our schools.
- high-wrought — highly agitated; overwrought.
- highfaluting — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
- house lights — lights of a residential building
- housing list — a list of people waiting to obtain council houses
- hubertusburg — a castle in E Germany, E of Leipzig: treaty ending the Seven Years' War signed here 1763.
- hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
- hug-me-tight — a woman's short, warm, close-fitting jacket, usually knitted or crocheted and often sleeveless.
- 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
- hunter green — a dark green color of yellowish cast.
- hunting case — a watchcase with a hinged cover to protect the crystal.
- hunting dogs — the constellation Canes Venatici.
- hunting horn — the earliest form of the modern horn, consisting of a conical tube coiled in a circle for carrying over the shoulder, and having a flaring bell and a trumpetlike mouthpiece.
- hunting pink — scarlet
- 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.
- immunologist — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
- impetiginous — a contagious skin disease, especially of children, usually caused by streptococcal bacteria, marked by a superficial pustular eruption, particularly on the face.
- in the rough — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- in-congruent — not congruent.
- 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.
- incontiguous — not continuous; unconnected; discrete
- ingurgitated — Simple past tense and past participle of ingurgitate.
- ingurgitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingurgitate.
- inner-tubing — tubing (def 4).
- inosculating — Present participle of inosculate.
- insightfully — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
- interborough — between boroughs.
- intercurring — Present participle of intercur.
- intercutting — to cut from one type of shot to another, as from a long shot to a closeup.
- interlingual — pertaining to or using two or more languages: an interlingual dictionary.
- interregnums — Plural form of interregnum.
- interrupting — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
- interwrought — having been interworked
- intralingual — within a given language; of or pertaining to a single language.
- intriguingly — to arouse the curiosity or interest of by unusual, new, or otherwise fascinating or compelling qualities; appeal strongly to; captivate: The plan intrigues me, but I wonder if it will work.
- 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.
- isotopologue — (chemistry) any of a group of compounds only differing in their isotopic composition; for example water and heavy water.
- 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.
- jitterbugged — Simple past tense and past participle of jitterbug.