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12-letter words containing u, g, a, r, i

  • running back — an offensive back, as a halfback or fullback, whose principal role is advancing the ball by running with it on plays from scrimmage.
  • running gaff — the hoisting gaff.
  • running gear — the working components of a motor-driven or steam-driven vehicle other than those used to develop or transmit power, as wheels, axles or springs, as distinguished from the body.
  • running hand — script or calligraphy characterized by uniformly slanted letters that are written quickly and connected by long, continuous strokes of the pen.
  • running head — a descriptive word, phrase, title, or the like, usually repeated at the top of each page of a book, periodical, etc.
  • running mate — a candidate for an office linked with another and more important office, as for the vice-presidency.
  • rush matting — a floor covering made from rushes (plants of the genus Juncus)
  • sacrilegious — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
  • safe surfing — the practice of using security measures to protect one's computer while surfing the internet
  • sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
  • sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
  • sanguivorous — feeding on blood, as a bat or insect.
  • saronic gulf — an inlet of the Aegean, on the SE coast of Greece, between Attica and the Peloponnesus. 50 miles (80 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.
  • saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
  • scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
  • semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
  • simple sugar — monosaccharide.
  • skating turn — a turn made by someone on roller or ice skates
  • slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
  • sofa surfing — (of a homeless person) the practice of staying temporarily with various friends and relatives while attempting to find permanent accommodation
  • spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
  • sporangiolum — a small sporangium
  • spur gearing — a system of spur gears.
  • squared ring — boxing ring.
  • stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
  • steel guitar — an acoustic, handheld guitar having a metal resonator and producing a wailing, variable sound.
  • stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
  • storage unit — rented space to store items
  • straight out — thoroughgoing: a straight-out Democrat.
  • straight-out — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • strain gauge — Geology. a type of extensometer designed for geophysical use.
  • submicrogram — containing or relating to a mass of less than one microgram
  • sugar glider — a gliding possum, Petaurus breviceps, inhabiting open forests of New Guinea, Tasmania, and Australia.
  • sugarcoating — the act or process of covering something with sugar.
  • sugaring off — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
  • superglacial — on the surface of a glacier.
  • supergravity — a hypothetical symmetry among groups of particles containing fermions and bosons, especially in theories of gravity (supergravity) that unify electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force with gravity into a single unified force.
  • superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
  • superhighway — a highway designed for travel at high speeds, having more than one lane for each direction of traffic, a safety strip dividing the two directions, and cloverleaves to route the traffic on and off the highway. Compare expressway.
  • superorganic — of or relating to the structure of cultural elements within society conceived as independent of and superior to the individual members of society.
  • surf casting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
  • surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
  • surpassingly — of a large amount or high degree; exceeding, excelling, or extraordinary: structures of surpassing magnificence.
  • survival bag — a large plastic bag carried by climbers for use in an emergency as protection against exposure
  • swiss guards — a corps of Swiss mercenary soldiers, esp. those hired as Vatican bodyguards to the pope
  • 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
  • thaumaturgic — pertaining to a thaumaturge or to thaumaturgy.
  • 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.
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