12-letter words containing a, g, u, s
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- glass cutter — a tool for cutting glass.
- glaucescence — the state of having bluish green coloration
- glaucomatous — Ophthalmology. abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye, most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains (open-angle glaucoma or chronic glaucoma) or by pressure of the iris against the lens, which traps the aqueous humor (angle-closure glaucoma or acute glaucoma)
- glaucousness — Quality of being glaucous.
- goddaughters — Plural form of goddaughter.
- gracefullest — Superlative form of graceful.
- gracefulness — The state of being graceful.
- graciousness — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- gradualistic — Of or pertaining to gradualism.
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- gran turismo — (of an automobile) certified as conforming to the specifications, as fuel capacity and engine displacement, for a class of standard automobiles (Gran Turismo) qualified to engage in various types of competitions. Abbreviation: GTO.
- grand rounds — a formal hospital meeting at which physicians discuss interesting medical cases.
- granulations — Plural form of granulation.
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- 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.
- gratuitously — given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary.
- gratulations — a feeling of joy.
- graustarkian — of, like, or characteristic of colorful, implausible, highly melodramatic and romantic situations or circumstances
- great sunday — Easter Sunday.
- gregariously — fond of the company of others; sociable.
- grossularite — a mineral, calcium aluminum garnet, Ca 3 Al 2 Si 3 O 12 , occurring in gray-white to pinkish crystals.
- ground glass — Optics. glass that has had its polished surface removed by fine grinding and that is used to diffuse light.
- ground shark — any of various requiem sharks, especially of the genus Carcharhinus.
- ground staff — The people who are paid to maintain a sports ground are called the ground staff.
- ground state — the state of least energy of a particle, as an atom, or of a system of particles.
- guardianista — a reader of the Guardian newspaper, seen as being typically left-wing, liberal, and politically correct
- guardianship — the position and responsibilities of a guardian, especially toward a ward.
- guesstimated — Simple past tense and past participle of guesstimate.
- guesstimates — Plural form of guesstimate.
- guinea grass — a grass, Panicum maximum, native to Africa, used for forage in warm regions of North and South America.
- gulf of siam — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
- gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
- 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.
- gustavus iii — 1746–92, king of Sweden 1771–92: economic and legal reformer.
- gut of canso — Canso (def 2).
- gutturalness — The quality of being guttural.
- gutturonasal — articulated in the back of the mouth and given resonance in the nasal cavity, as the sound represented by (ng) in (ring).
- gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- hazel grouse — a European woodland grouse, Tetrastes bonasia, somewhat resembling the North American ruffed grouse.
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.