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

  • 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.
  • regurgitated — to give back or repeat, especially something not fully understood or assimilated: to regurgitate the teacher's lectures on the exam.
  • rejuvenating — making young again
  • repromulgate — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • reregulation — renewed regulation, the act or process of regulating again
  • retail group — a group of companies under single ownership, which sell goods to individual customers
  • retrolingual — situated behind or near the base of the tongue.
  • rheumatology — the study and treatment of rheumatic diseases.
  • rogue trader — A rogue trader is an employee of a financial institution who carries out business without the knowledge or approval of his or her bosses.
  • rugby tackle — A rugby tackle is a way of making someone fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.
  • ruminatingly — in a ruminating manner
  • running mate — a candidate for an office linked with another and more important office, as for the vice-presidency.
  • rush matting — a floor covering made from rushes (plants of the genus Juncus)
  • sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
  • sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
  • saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
  • sausage meat — minced and processed pork
  • sausage tree — a tropical African tree, Kigelia pinnata, having red, bell-shaped flowers and large, sausage-shaped fruits hanging from very long stalks.
  • scatophagous — feeding on dung or excrement
  • scutch grass — Bermuda grass.
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • secretagogue — a substance or situation that promotes secretion.
  • septuagesima — the third Sunday before Lent.
  • 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.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • 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.
  • south-facing — facing towards the south
  • stag hunting — the act of hunting or chasing and killing stags
  • stage-struck — obsessed with the desire to become an actor or actress.
  • standing cup — a tall decorative cup of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, having a raised cover.
  • 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.
  • steatopygous — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
  • 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
  • stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
  • 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.
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