12-letter words containing a, e, r, u, g
- grand coulee — a dry canyon in central Washington: cut by the Columbia River in the glacial period. 52 miles (84 km) long; over 400 feet (120 meters) deep.
- grandaughter — Alternative spelling of granddaughter.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- grass cutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
- grass-cutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
- gratefulness — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
- great laurel — a tall shrub, Rhododendron maximum, of eastern North America, having rose-pink flowers.
- great plague — the bubonic plague that occurred in London in 1665 and killed about 15 percent of the city's population.
- great sunday — Easter Sunday.
- greater kudu — a spiral-horned antelope, Tragelaphus strepsiceros, which inhabits the bush of Africa
- green iguana — the common iguana (Iguana iguana)
- green manure — a crop of growing plants, as clover and other nitrogen-fixing plants, plowed under to enrich the soil.
- gregariously — fond of the company of others; sociable.
- grey gurnard — a species of scorpionfish, Eutriglia gurnardus
- grossularite — a mineral, calcium aluminum garnet, Ca 3 Al 2 Si 3 O 12 , occurring in gray-white to pinkish crystals.
- ground alert — the state of waiting for orders in or near combat airplanes ready to take to the air at once.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground cedar — a ground pine, Lycopodium complanatum.
- ground plane — (in perspective drawing) the theoretical horizontal plane receding from the picture plane to the horizon, beginning at the level of the base line.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- ground state — the state of least energy of a particle, as an atom, or of a system of particles.
- ground water — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
- grudge match — You can call a contest between two people or groups a grudge match when they dislike each other.
- guaranteeing — a promise or assurance, especially one in writing, that something is of specified quality, content, benefit, etc., or that it will perform satisfactorily for a given length of time: a money-back guarantee.
- gubernacular — relating to a gubernaculum
- gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
- guinea grass — a grass, Panicum maximum, native to Africa, used for forage in warm regions of North and South America.
- gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
- gun carriage — the structure on which a gun is mounted or moved and from which it is fired.
- gustav hertz — Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1887–1975, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1925.
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- gut reaction — instinctive response
- gutta-percha — the milky juice, nearly white when pure, of various Malaysian trees of the sapodilla family, especially Palaquium gutta.
- gutturalized — pronounced with guttural coarticulation.
- gutturalness — The quality of being guttural.
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- h paul grice — H(erbert) Paul, 1913–88, English philosopher.
- haulage firm — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- hazel grouse — a European woodland grouse, Tetrastes bonasia, somewhat resembling the North American ruffed grouse.
- heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
- heliogravure — photoengraving.
- heterogamous — Genetics. having unlike gametes, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to isogamous).
- horse guards — the mounted squadrons supplied by the Household Cavalry for ceremonial duties
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- hunger march — a procession of protest or demonstration by the unemployed
- hunger pangs — sudden strong feelings of hunger
- induced drag — the drag force generated in the production of lift.
- ingurgitated — Simple past tense and past participle of ingurgitate.
- ingurgitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingurgitate.