12-letter words containing u, g, l
- urban legend — a modern story of obscure origin and with little or no supporting evidence that spreads spontaneously in varying forms and often has elements of humor, moralizing, or horror: Are there alligators living in the New York City sewer system, or is that just an urban legend?
- urbanologist — a sociologist specializing in urban life and problems
- urinogenital — genitourinary.
- urobilinogen — a colourless substance produced by bacterial degradation of the bile pigment bilirubin in the intestine and which produces urobilin when oxidized
- vaginicolous — living in a sheath
- vainglorious — filled with or given to vainglory: a vainglorious actor.
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- vengefulness — desiring or seeking vengeance; vindictive: a vengeful attitude.
- vigee-lebrun — (Marie Anne) Élisabeth [ma-ree an ey-lee-za-bet] /maˈri an eɪ li zaˈbɛt/ (Show IPA), 1755–1842, French painter.
- visual angle — the angle subtended by an object at the lens of the eye
- visual range — Meteorology. visibility (def 3).
- vitiliginous — a skin disorder characterized by smooth, white patches on various parts of the body, caused by the loss of the natural pigment.
- vso language — a type of language that has basic verb-subject-object word order, as Welsh, classical Arabic, or Tagalog.
- vulgar latin — popular Latin, as distinguished from literary or standard Latin, especially those spoken forms of Latin from which the Romance languages developed. Abbreviation: VL.
- vulvovaginal — relating to the external female genitals
- walk through — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
- walk-through — Theater, Television. a rehearsal in which physical action is combined with reading the lines of a play. a perfunctory performance of a script.
- walking tour — a tour on which you walk rather than using transport
- walkthroughs — Plural form of walkthrough.
- well-guarded — cautious; careful; prudent: to be guarded in one's speech.
- well-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- wet puddling — puddling on a hearth rich in iron oxide so that carbon monoxide is generated, giving the iron the appearance of boiling.
- white plague — tuberculosis, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.
- williamsburg — a city in SE Virginia: colonial capital of Virginia; now restored to its original pre-Revolutionary style.
- williewaught — a substantial serving or swig of an alcoholic beverage
- wineglassful — the capacity of a wineglass, typically containing four to six fluid ounces.
- wing formula — a numerical representation of the relative lengths of the primary feathers of a bird's wing, used in identifying similar species, as flycatchers.
- wrongfulness — unjust or unfair: a wrongful act; a wrongful charge.
- wusuli jiang — Ussuri.
- zhang zuolin — Chang Tso-lin.