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

  • douglas-home — Alexander Frederick (Baron Home of the Hirsel) 1903–1995, British statesman and politician: prime minister 1963–64.
  • downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
  • draught beer — beer which is stored in bulk, esp in a cask, as opposed to being bottled
  • dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
  • duty manager — A duty manager is a person who is in charge at a particular time.
  • dysregulated — Simple past tense and past participle of dysregulate.
  • earth tongue — any of a group of fungi of the phylum Ascomycota, characterized by a tongue-shaped fruiting body, found on decaying logs and damp soil.
  • eating house — a restaurant or other place where one can eat
  • edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
  • effectuating — Present participle of effectuate.
  • effiguration — a detailed and elaborate description of something
  • egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
  • egyptian mau — a breed of medium-sized cat with a spotted coat of medium length
  • elephant gun — hunting rifle
  • emasculating — Present participle of emasculate.
  • endeavouring — Present participle of endeavour.
  • ensanguining — Present participle of ensanguine.
  • equigranular — (petrology) Composed chiefly of grains of similar size.
  • equivocating — Present participle of equivocate.
  • ethical drug — a drug which is only available legally with a doctor's prescription or consent
  • eulogistical — Alternative form of eulogistic.
  • excruciating — Intensely painful.
  • exhaustingly — In an exhausting manner.
  • expugnations — Plural form of expugnation.
  • exsanguinate — (transitive) To kill by means of blood loss.
  • exsanguinous — Alternative form of exsanguious.
  • fatigue duty — any of the mainly domestic duties performed by military personnel, esp as a punishment
  • fatigue life — the number of applications of a given stress to which a sample of metal can be subjected before failing.
  • feeler gauge — a person or thing that feels.
  • fergus falls — a city in W central Minnesota.
  • feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
  • figuratively — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
  • figure skate — a shoe skate used in figure skating, especially one having a blade shorter than that of a racing skate, usually not extending beyond the toe or heel, and with notches or sawteeth on the curved forward edge.
  • figure-skate — to take part in figure skating
  • figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
  • flux linkage — the product of the magnetic flux and the number of turns in a given coil.
  • fourth grade — school year: age 9-10
  • fudge factor — any variable component added to an experiment, plan, or the like that can be manipulated to allow leeway for error.
  • fund manager — A fund manager is someone whose job involves investing the money contained in a fund, for example, a mutual fund, on behalf of another person or organization.
  • gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
  • galactagogue — A food or drug that promotes or increases the flow of a mother’s milk.
  • galeniferous — Of a mineral or deposit that contains galena.
  • gallinaceous — pertaining to or resembling the domestic fowls.
  • gamopetalous — having the petals united.
  • gamosepalous — having the sepals united.
  • garbage dump — rubbish tip, place where refuse is disposed of
  • gas equation — an equation that equates the product of the pressure and the volume of one mole of a gas to the product of its thermodynamic temperature and the gas constant. The equation is exact for an ideal gas and is a good approximation for real gases at low pressures
  • gateway drug — any mood-altering drug, as a stimulant or tranquilizer, that does not cause physical dependence but may lead to the use of addictive drugs, as heroin.
  • gauge theory — a type of theory of elementary particles designed to explain the strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions in terms of exchange of virtual particles
  • gear cluster — an assembly of gears permanently attached to a shaft
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