12-letter words containing a, r, e, n, c
- gnatcatchers — Plural form of gnatcatcher.
- go-go dancer — an entertainer who performs popular dances on a stage or platform for the patrons of a discotheque or nightclub.
- gracefulness — The state of being graceful.
- graciousness — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- graeco-roman — of or having both Greek and Roman characteristics: the Greco-Roman influence.
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- 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.
- 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.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- grave accent — a mark ( ˋ ) used to indicate:
- 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.
- green-collar — noting or pertaining to workers, jobs, or businesses that are involved in protecting the environment or solving environmental problems.
- 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.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground cedar — a ground pine, Lycopodium complanatum.
- gubernacular — relating to a gubernaculum
- gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
- gun carriage — the structure on which a gun is mounted or moved and from which it is fired.
- gut reaction — instinctive response
- gynaecocracy — Alternative form of gynecocracy.
- gyromagnetic — of or relating to the magnetic properties of a rotating charged particle.
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- handicrafter — One who engages in handicrafts.
- handkerchief — a small piece of linen, silk, or other fabric, usually square, and used especially for wiping one's nose, eyes, face, etc., or for decorative purposes.
- hard science — any of the natural or physical sciences, as chemistry, biology, physics, or astronomy, in which aspects of the universe are investigated by means of hypotheses and experiments.
- haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
- harness race — a trotting or pacing race for Standardbred horses harnessed to sulkies.
- hearken back — to go back in thought or speech; revert; hark back
- heart urchin — an echinoderm of the order Spatangoida, having an elongate, somewhat heart-shaped outer covering.
- hebephreniac — a person suffering from hebephrenia
- henceforward — from now on; from this point forward.
- hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- hierophantic — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- hippocrepian — (of an aquatic organism or plant) shaped like a horseshoe
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- horn balance — an extension of an aircraft control surface that projects in front of the hinge providing aerodynamic assistance in moving the control
- horse racing — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- hunger march — a procession of protest or demonstration by the unemployed
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hyperdynamic — (physiology) Describing an increase in both blood pressure and pulse pressure.
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- ian maclaren — James Dewey, born 1928, U.S. biologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1962.
- iceland spar — a transparent variety of calcite that is double-refracting and is used as a polarizer.
- icosahedrons — Plural form of icosahedron.