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

  • secretagogue — a substance or situation that promotes secretion.
  • sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
  • skating turn — a turn made by someone on roller or ice skates
  • slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
  • slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
  • slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
  • sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • stage-struck — obsessed with the desire to become an actor or actress.
  • status group — a social stratum sharing the same lifestyle or occupation and having the same level of prestige.
  • stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
  • 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.
  • stegocarpous — (of a moss) belonging to the division Stegocarpi, having an operculate capsule
  • stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
  • stepdaughter — a daughter of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
  • storage tube — an electron tube in which information is stored as charges for a predetermined time
  • 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.
  • stun grenade — a nonlethal grenade which is used to disturb the senses of enemies by its loud noise and its bright light
  • sub-mortgage — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
  • subaggregate — a subtotal
  • sugar-coated — Sugar-coated food is covered with a sweet substance made of sugar.
  • sugarcoating — the act or process of covering something with sugar.
  • supererogate — to do more than duty requires.
  • 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.
  • supraglottal — situated above the glottis
  • surf casting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
  • take umbrage — If you say that a person takes umbrage, you mean that they are upset or offended by something that someone says or does to them, often without much reason.
  • talk through — guide through: a procedure, etc.
  • 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
  • target group — intended audience or customers
  • telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
  • thaumaturgic — pertaining to a thaumaturge or to thaumaturgy.
  • thoroughfare — a road, street, or the like, that leads at each end into another street.
  • thought-read — to read someone's mind or psychically know what someone's thoughts are
  • through bass — figured bass.
  • thrust stage — a stage that extends beyond the proscenium arch and is usually surrounded on three sides by seats.
  • toboggan run — a slope that you can slide down on a toboggan
  • tongue graft — whip graft.
  • tour manager — the person in charge of an organized trip that people such as musicians, or actors go on to several different places, stopping to meet people or perform
  • 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.
  • traumatology — a branch of surgery dealing with major wounds caused by accidents or violence.
  • treasury tag — a short piece of cord having metal ends one of which can be slotted inside the other: used for holding papers together or fastening them into a file
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