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12-letter words containing t, u, r, i, n, g

  • port running — an evasive action at a port of entry in which a person drives through a vehicle-stopping point.
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • propugnation — defence
  • prostituting — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
  • pull strings — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
  • puppeteering — a person who manipulates puppets, as in a puppet show.
  • quarantining — a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
  • recentrifuge — to subject (a liquid) to the action of a centrifuge again
  • recuperating — to recover from sickness or exhaustion; regain health or strength.
  • reed bunting — an Old World bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus, inhabiting marshy areas.
  • 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.
  • rejuvenating — making young again
  • 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.
  • ring circuit — an electrical system in which distribution points are connected to the main supply in a continuous closed circuit
  • rock bunting — a seed-eating songbird, Emberiza cia
  • ruminatingly — in a ruminating manner
  • 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.
  • running mate — a candidate for an office linked with another and more important office, as for the vice-presidency.
  • running text — the body of text in a newspaper, magazine, or the like, as distinguished from the heads, illustrations, etc.
  • running time — Movies. the length or duration, usually expressed in minutes, of a feature film: The running time of the average film is 90–100 minutes.
  • rush matting — a floor covering made from rushes (plants of the genus Juncus)
  • rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
  • saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
  • scrutinizing — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
  • setting rule — a metal strip used in the hand-setting of type in a composing stick to separate the line being set from the previous one
  • shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
  • skating turn — a turn made by someone on roller or ice skates
  • sporting gun — a gun intended for hunting
  • sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
  • stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
  • stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
  • 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.
  • sugarcoating — the act or process of covering something with sugar.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • through-line — a theme or idea that runs from the beginning to the end of a book, film, etc
  • 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.
  • tramping hut — a hut in the bush for the use of trampers
  • traumatising — Pathology. to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.
  • traumatizing — Pathology. to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.
  • truck racing — a motor sport in which powerful trucks, without their containers, are raced around a circuit
  • trunk engine — an engine having a trunk piston or pistons.
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