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12-letter words containing ld

  • gold filling — a small amount of gold that a dentist puts in a hole in a tooth to prevent further decay
  • gold reserve — the stock of gold held by a government or central bank to back its promissory notes or currency or to settle its international debts.
  • gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
  • gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
  • gold-plating — the incorporation of costly and unnecessary features or refinements into a product or structure.
  • goldbricking — Present participle of goldbrick.
  • golden aster — any North American, asterlike, composite plant of the genus Chrysopsis, having bright, golden-yellow flower heads, as C. mariana, of the eastern U.S.
  • golden bough — a branch of mistletoe, sacred to Proserpina, that served Aeneas as a pass to the underworld.
  • golden eagle — a large eagle, Aquila chrysaëtos, of the Northern Hemisphere, having golden-brown feathers on the back of the head and neck.
  • golden goose — a legendary goose that laid one golden egg a day and was killed by its impatient owner, who wanted all the gold immediately.
  • golden hello — A golden hello is a sum of money that a company offers to a person in order to persuade them to join the company.
  • golden horde — the army of Mongol Tartars that overran eastern Europe in the 13th century, established a khanate in Russia, and maintained suzerainty there until the 15th century.
  • golden oldie — Informal. something once popular or valued that has retained its appeal or for which interest has been reawakened, especially a popular song or record.
  • golden perch — a freshwater food fish, Plectroplites ambiguus, that inhabits inland waters of Australia.
  • golden ratio — the ratio of two lengths, equal in value to (1 + √5)/2, and given by b/a = (b + a)/b; it is the reciprocal of the golden section and also equal to (1 + golden section)
  • golden share — a share in a company that controls at least 51% of the voting rights, esp one retained by the UK government in some privatization issues
  • golden stars — a plant, Bloomeria crocea, of the amaryllis family, native to southern California, having clusters of golden-orange, starlike flowers.
  • golden state — California (used as a nickname).
  • golden syrup — treacle (def 2b).
  • golden trout — a very colorful freshwater fish, Salmo aguabonita or Oncorhynchus aguabonita, of the salmon family, native to the Sierra Nevada, having a red and orange body and golden sides.
  • golden years — the years that follow retirement from work
  • golden-brown — of brown with a golden tinge
  • goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
  • goldsmithing — The work of a goldsmith; the forging of gold.
  • good as gold — If you say that a child is being as good as gold, you are emphasizing that they are behaving very well and are not causing you any problems.
  • good old boy — a male who embodies the unsophisticated good fellowship and sometimes boisterous sociability regarded as typical of white males of small towns and rural areas of the South.
  • grimaldi man — a type of Aurignacian man having a negroid appearance, thought to be a race of Cro-Magnon man
  • guelder rose — a shrub, Viburnum opulus, of the honeysuckle family, native to the Old World, having broad clusters of white flowers and scarlet fruit.
  • guelder-rose — a shrub, Viburnum opulus, of the honeysuckle family, native to the Old World, having broad clusters of white flowers and scarlet fruit.
  • hammarskjold — Dag Hjalmar [dahg yahl-mahr] /dɑg ˈyɑl mɑr/ (Show IPA), 1905–61, Swedish statesman: Secretary General of the United Nations 1953–61; Nobel Peace Prize 1961.
  • hand-holding — the act of holding hands, especially as a sign or token of affection.
  • harold stark — Harold Raynsford [reynz-ferd] /ˈreɪnz fərd/ (Show IPA), 1880–1972, U.S. admiral.
  • heldentenors — Plural form of heldentenor.
  • hello, world — (programming)   The canonical, minimal, first program that a programmer writes in a new programming language or development environment. The program just prints "hello, world" to standard output in order to verify that the programmer can successfully edit, compile and run a simple program before embarking on anything more challenging. Hello, world is the first example program in the C programming book, K&R, and the tradition has spread from there to pretty much every other language and many of their textbooks. Environments that generate an unreasonably large executable for this trivial test or which require a hairy compiler-linker invocation to generate it are considered bad.
  • heraldically — of, relating to, or characteristic of heralds or heraldry: heraldic form; heraldic images; heraldic history; a heraldic device.
  • hold against — resent sb for sth
  • hold out for — to wait patiently or uncompromisingly for (the fulfilment of one's demands)
  • holding tank — a tank for the temporary storage of a substance.
  • homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
  • homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
  • hood molding — a molding or dripstone over a door or window.
  • housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
  • householders — Plural form of householder.
  • huddersfield — a town in West Yorkshire, in N central England.
  • human shield — a person or group of people located or intentionally placed in a potential line of fire or in an area likely to be attacked.
  • humboldt bay — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in NW California.
  • in old money — according to the old system
  • in the field — Work or study that is done in the field is done in a real, natural environment rather than in a theoretical way or in controlled conditions.
  • in the world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
  • land-holding — a holder, owner, or occupant of land.
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