12-letter words containing t, u, n, g, s
- sitting bull — 1834–90, American Indian warrior: leader of the Hunkpapa; victor at Little Bighorn, 1876.
- sitting duck — a helpless or easy target or victim: a sitting duck for shady financial schemes.
- skating turn — a turn made by someone on roller or ice skates
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- 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
- sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
- stag hunting — the act of hunting or chasing and killing stags
- standing cup — a tall decorative cup of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, having a raised cover.
- stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
- 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
- strain gauge — Geology. a type of extensometer designed for geophysical use.
- 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.
- stud welding — the semiautomatic welding of a stud or similar piece of metal to a flat part, usually by means of an electric arc
- studdingsail — a light sail, sometimes set outboard of either of the leeches of a square sail and extended by booms.
- 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.
- stuffing nut — a large nut that is tightened to compress the packing in a stuffing box
- stun grenade — a nonlethal grenade which is used to disturb the senses of enemies by its loud noise and its bright light
- stunt flying — the activity or practice of performing stunts in an aeroplane, such as special turns, etc, in the air
- stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- substituting — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
- suet pudding — a pudding made of chopped beef suet and flour, boiled or steamed in a cloth, often with other ingredients, as raisins, spices, etc.
- sugarcoating — the act or process of covering something with sugar.
- super-urgent — compelling or requiring immediate action or attention; imperative; pressing: an urgent matter.
- superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
- supportingly — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- surf casting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
- 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.
- tasting menu — a fixed-price restaurant meal or menu consisting of small portions of numerous dishes: We ordered the 6-course tasting menu for $125.
- thoroughness — executed without negligence or omissions: a thorough search.
- through-sung — sung throughout, with no spoken dialogue
- thymus gland — a ductless, butterfly-shaped gland lying at the base of the neck, formed mostly of lymphatic tissue and aiding in the production of T cells of the immune system: after puberty, the lymphatic tissue gradually degenerates.
- 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.
- traumatising — Pathology. to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.
- tsunamigenic — producing a tsunami or tsunamis
- turn against — become hostile to
- ufo sighting — the sighting of a UFO
- unconsenting — to permit, approve, or agree; comply or yield (often followed by to or an infinitive): He consented to the proposal. We asked her permission, and she consented.
- understating — to state or represent less strongly or strikingly than the facts would bear out; set forth in restrained, moderate, or weak terms: The casualty lists understate the extent of the disaster.
- undertakings — the act of a person who undertakes any task or responsibility.
- undesignated — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- undigestible — indigestible.
- undisturbing — not disturbing