12-letter words containing a, c, i, n, g, e
- geriatrician — the branch of medicine dealing with the diseases, debilities, and care of aged persons.
- get cracking — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- glycerinated — to impregnate with glycerin.
- graciousness — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- grand siècle — the 17th century in French art and literature, esp the classical period of Louis XIV
- granite city — a city in SW Illinois, near St. Louis, Missouri.
- grecian bend — (especially in the late 19th century) a posture or walk, often considered fashionable, in which the body is bent forward from the waist.
- greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- gun carriage — the structure on which a gun is mounted or moved and from which it is fired.
- gut reaction — instinctive response
- gynecomastia — abnormal enlargement of the breast in a male.
- gyromagnetic — of or relating to the magnetic properties of a rotating charged particle.
- hallucinogen — a substance that produces hallucinations.
- hamming code — (algorithm) Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
- hiding place — location where sb is concealed
- high finance — large-scale financial transactions or institutions.
- horse racing — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- hunting case — a watchcase with a hinged cover to protect the crystal.
- hygienically — conducive to good health; healthful; sanitary.
- imogene coca — Imogene, 1908–2001, U.S. comic actress.
- in charge of — having responsibility for
- incinerating — Present participle of incinerate.
- incoagulable — of a nature that cannot be coagulated
- incogitative — Not cogitative; lacking the power of thought.
- incognisance — Alternative spelling of incognizance.
- incognizable — Not cognizable; incapable of being recognised.
- incognizance — Failure to cognize, apprehend, or notice.
- increasingly — growing larger or greater; enlarging; augmenting.
- induced drag — the drag force generated in the production of lift.
- ingravescent — (esp of a disease) becoming more severe
- interchanged — Simple past tense and past participle of interchange.
- interchanger — a person or thing that interchanges
- interchanges — Plural form of interchange.
- interglacial — occurring or formed between times of glacial action.
- interlacings — Plural form of interlacing.
- interspacing — Present participle of interspace.
- invercargill — a city on S South Island, in New Zealand.
- ion exchange — the process of reciprocal transfer of ions between a solution and a resin or other suitable solid.
- isoantigenic — relating to an isoantigen or isoantigens
- king's peace — (in early medieval England) the protection secured by the king for particular people or places
- knee-capping — Knee-capping is the act of shooting someone in the knee and is carried out by some terrorist organizations as a form of punishment.
- leading case — a case that is regarded as having settled a particular point of law; a case that is used as guidance for legal decisions
- line dancing — to participate in a line dance.
- line spacing — (in a book, computer-produced document, etc) the spacing between lines of type
- linear logic — (theory) A logic invented by Girard in 1987 that can be used in proofs related to resource usage.
- living space — home: rooms, etc.
- locoregional — Restricted to a localized region of the body.
- loganiaceous — belonging to the plant family Loganiaceae.