11-letter words containing u, t, g, a
- plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
- point guard — Basketball. the guard who directs the team's offense from the point.
- polygonatum — a plant of the genus Polygonatum
- postulating — to ask, demand, or claim.
- prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- promulgator — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- ptyalagogue — an item that causes the flow of saliva
- purgatorial — removing or purging sin; expiatory: purgatorial rites.
- purgatorian — a person who believes in purgatory
- quadrigatus — a silver coin of ancient Rome, bearing an image of Jupiter in a quadriga on the reverse.
- quantifying — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- quitchgrass — Elymus repens.
- rat-running — the practice of driving through residential side streets to avoid congested main roads
- re-argument — the process or act of rearguing a legal case, issue, etc
- readthrough — reading (def 1).
- recatalogue — to catalogue (something, such as a book or collection of books) again
- rectangular — shaped like a rectangle.
- regurgitant — to surge or rush back, as liquids, gases, undigested food, etc.
- regurgitate — to surge or rush back, as liquids, gases, undigested food, etc.
- repugnantly — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
- retroussage — the technique or action, in etching or engraving, of drawing up ink from within the incised lines of an inked plate by deftly passing a soft cloth across its surface in order to spread ink to the adjacent areas.
- revaluating — to make a new or revised valuation of; revalue.
- right about — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- rogue state — When politicians or journalists talk about a rogue state, they mean a country that they regard as a threat to their own country's security, for example because it supports terrorism.
- rotogravure — a photomechanical process by which pictures, typeset matter, etc., are printed from an intaglio copper cylinder.
- rough draft — writing: unfinished version
- rough trade — male homosexual prostitution, especially involving brutality or sadism.
- rummage out — to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), especially by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents.
- rusticating — to go to the country.
- sagittarius — zodiac sign: Archer
- salting out — the addition of salt to a mixture to precipitate proteins, soaps, and other simple organic compounds.
- salting-out — Salting-out is the effect when adding a salt to a solvent containing an organic solute reduces the solubility of that solute.
- samuel ting — Samuel C(hao) C(hung) [chou choo ng] /tʃaʊ tʃʊŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1936, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1976.
- scatter rug — a small rug, placed on the floor in front of a chair, under a table, etc.
- scatter-gun — a shotgun
- self-taught — taught to oneself or by oneself to be (as indicated) without the aid of a formal education: self-taught typing; a self-taught typist.
- singularist — someone who advocates singularism
- singularity — the state, fact, or quality of being singular.
- singulative — a grammatical form or construction that expresses a singular entity or indicates that an individual is singled out from a group, especially as opposed to a collective noun, as snowflake as opposed to snow.
- slaughtered — the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.
- sound stage — a large, soundproof studio used for filming motion pictures.
- spartanburg — a city in NW South Carolina.
- speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- stagestruck — obsessed with the desire to become an actor or actress.
- staggerbush — an ericaceous deciduous shrub, Lyonia mariana, of E North America, having white or pinkish flowers: it is poisonous to livestock
- stand guard — keep watch
- standing up — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- steamer rug — a coarse, heavy lap robe used by ship passengers sitting in deck chairs.
- stegosaurus — any of a suborder (Stegosauria) of large ornithischian dinosaurs of the Upper Jurassic having a small head and heavy bony plates with sharp spikes down the backbone