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