12-letter words containing g
- agroforester — a person who carries out agroforestry
- agroforestry — a method of farming integrating herbaceous and tree crops
- agroindustry — an activity combining agriculture and industry
- aid climbing — climbing that employs mechanical devices (aids) to accomplish difficult manoeuvres (artificial moves)
- aiguillettes — Plural form of aiguillette.
- aiming point — the point at which a gun or bombsight is aimed in order to strike a desired target, often a point in advance of or behind the actual target.
- air drilling — Air drilling is a drilling method in which compressed air or nitrogen is used to cool the drill bit and lift cuttings out of the wellbore.
- air layering — a method of propagating a plant by girdling or cutting part way into a stem or branch and packing the area with a moist medium, as sphagnum moss, stimulating root formation so that the stem or branch can be removed and grown as an independent plant.
- airfreighted — Simple past tense and past participle of airfreight.
- airtightness — the quality of being airtight
- alan shugart — Alan F. Shugart
- alarm signal — a signal warning of danger
- alaska range — a mountain range in S central Alaska. Highest peak: Mount McKinley, 6194 m (20 320 ft)
- albumenizing — Present participle of albumenize.
- alcoholizing — Present participle of alcoholize.
- algesiometer — an instrument for determining the sensitiveness of the skin to a painful stimulus.
- alginic acid — powdery substance extracted from kelp
- aliasing bug — stale pointer bug
- alkali grass — a plant, Zigadenus elegans, of central and western North America, having tough, wiry, bluish-green leaves and greenish flowers.
- all the rage — angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination): a speech full of rage; incidents of road rage.
- all together — in chorus, in unison
- allegoristic — writing or using allegory; interpreting in an allegorical sense.
- allegorizing — Present participle of allegorize.
- allegrissimo — (music) A direction in musical notation indicating that the musical piece should be played very fast and lively.
- allergically — In an allergic manner; because of allergies.
- alluringness — The state or quality of being alluring.
- almightiness — The state or quality of being almighty.
- almond green — a yellowish-green colour
- alongside of — at the side of; beside; adjoining
- amalgamating — Present participle of amalgamate.
- amalgamation — the action or process of amalgamating
- amalgamative — of or relating to amalgamation
- ameliorating — Present participle of ameliorate.
- amelogenesis — the production of enamel by ameloblasts
- american rig — a rig for drilling oil and gas wells by using a chisel bit dropped from a considerable height.
- among others — used to indicate that there are several more people like the one or ones mentioned, but that you do not intend to mention them all
- ampelography — the science concerned with the identification and classification of grapevines
- amphibiology — The branch of science that deals with amphibious animals.
- amphiregulin — (protein) A particular autocrine growth factor.
- amuse-gueule — amuse-bouche.
- amygdaliform — almond-shaped.
- amygdaloidal — (of a volcanic rock) containing amygdales
- amygdalotomy — (surgery) Surgical removal of the amygdala.
- anacrogynous — having the female sex organs arising from any cell below the apex of the stem, thereby not terminating its growth, as certain liverworts.
- anadyr range — Chukot Range
- anaglyphical — Alternative form of anaglyphic.
- anagrammatic — a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters: “Angel” is an anagram of “glean.”.
- analog clock — a clock that represents time by the position of hands on a dial.
- analog watch — a watch that represents time by the position of hands on a dial.
- analogically — In an analogical manner; in the manner of an analogy.