12-letter words containing u, n, e, g, o, t
- encountering — Present participle of encounter.
- engine mount — The engine mount is the part of the chassis on which an engine is supported.
- equivocating — Present participle of equivocate.
- eurosterling — sterling as part of a European holding
- expugnations — Plural form of expugnation.
- fungus stone — the Canadian tuckahoe, Polyporus tuberaster, an irregularly spherical mass of fungus mycelium and earth, forming a pseudosclerotium.
- gas equation — an equation that equates the product of the pressure and the volume of one mole of a gas to the product of its thermodynamic temperature and the gas constant. The equation is exact for an ideal gas and is a good approximation for real gases at low pressures
- gelatigenous — (archaic) Producing or yielding gelatin.
- geniculation — the state of being geniculate.
- gentilitious — relating to a gens
- genuflection — an act of bending the knee or touching it to the ground in reverence or worship.
- gerontogeous — belonging to the Old World.
- get a bun on — to become drunk
- get in touch — make contact
- get round to — find time
- glucoprotein — glycoprotein.
- glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
- go the round — to be circulated among a number of people: said of a story, rumor, etc.
- golden trout — a very colorful freshwater fish, Salmo aguabonita or Oncorhynchus aguabonita, of the salmon family, native to the Sierra Nevada, having a red and orange body and golden sides.
- good-natured — having or showing a pleasant, kindly disposition; amiable: a warm, good-natured person.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- ground alert — the state of waiting for orders in or near combat airplanes ready to take to the air at once.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- ground state — the state of least energy of a particle, as an atom, or of a system of particles.
- ground water — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
- groundsheets — Plural form of groundsheet.
- groundstroke — A stroke played after the ball has bounced, as opposed to a volley.
- group of ten — the ten nations who met in Paris in 1961 to arrange the special drawing rights of the IMF: Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, UK, US, and West Germany
- gut reaction — instinctive response
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- hematogenous — originating in the blood.
- hepatogenous — originating in the liver
- heterogenous — having its source or origin outside the organism; having a foreign origin.
- heterogonous — Botany. of or relating to monoclinous flowers of two or more kinds occurring on different individuals of the same species, the kinds differing in the relative length of stamens and pistils (opposed to homogonous).
- heterogynous — having females of two different kinds, one sexual and the other abortive or neuter, as ants.
- 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.
- interborough — between boroughs.
- interwrought — having been interworked
- keratogenous — producing horn or a horny substance.
- ketone group — the characteristic group occurring in ketones that consists of the carbonyl group attached to two alkyl groups.
- langoustines — Plural form of langoustine.
- long-tongued — talking too much or too openly, especially of private or confidential matters; chattering; gossipy.
- longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
- magnetopause — the boundary between the earth's magnetosphere and interplanetary space, about 40,000 miles (65,000 km) above the earth, marked by an abrupt decrease in the earth's magnetic induction.
- magniloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful.
- mao tse-tung — 1893–1976, Chinese Communist leader: chairman of the People's Republic of China 1949–59; chairman of the Chinese Communist Party 1943–76.
- meetinghouse — A Quaker place of worship.
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.