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12-letter words containing u, r, g, e, n

  • pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
  • pipe routing — Pipe routing is the planning of pipeline layout, which includes considerations of neatness, economy, and safety.
  • pleurogenous — Anatomy. pertaining to or originating from the pleura.
  • pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
  • pre-language — a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language; the Yiddish language.
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • preinaugural — occurring before an inauguration
  • prejudgement — to judge beforehand.
  • prelingually — in a prelingual manner
  • pudding rice — a type of short-grained rice that is suitable for making into a rice pudding
  • puppeteering — a person who manipulates puppets, as in a puppet show.
  • pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
  • queen regent — a queen who reigns in behalf of another.
  • rag business — the garment, clothing, or fashion industry.
  • rauschenberg — Robert, 1925–2008, U.S. artist.
  • reassuringly — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
  • 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.
  • refurnishing — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
  • 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
  • rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
  • resoundingly — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
  • retrolingual — situated behind or near the base of the tongue.
  • reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
  • rice pudding — dessert made from rice and milk
  • ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
  • rogue's yarn — a yarn of distinctive color, material, or twist, laid in a strand or strands of a rope to identify the owner or the maker.
  • rouge dragon — a pursuivant at the English college of arms
  • rough-spoken — coarse or vulgar in speech.
  • ruby wedding — a fortieth wedding anniversary
  • ruling elder — an elder in a Presbyterian church.
  • ruling grade — the steepest grade on a given stretch of track, which determines the maximum tonnage that can be hauled in a train having a given horsepower at a stated minimum speed.
  • rumor-monger — a person given to spreading rumors, often maliciously.
  • running fire — a rapid discharge of firearms in succession by a line of soldiers
  • 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 head — a descriptive word, phrase, title, or the like, usually repeated at the top of each page of a book, periodical, etc.
  • running joke — a joke or humorous allusion used recurrently in a play, film, television skit, etc., for a cumulative comic effect.
  • running mate — a candidate for an office linked with another and more important office, as for the vice-presidency.
  • running pine — a ground pine, Lycopodium clavatum.
  • running shoe — trainer, sneaker
  • 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.
  • safe surfing — the practice of using security measures to protect one's computer while surfing the internet
  • sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
  • saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
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