12-letter words containing a, s, t, r, g
- hearing test — a test to establish whether someone's hearing is normal or whether they have suffered some degree of hearing loss
- heartstrings — (obsolete, anatomy) The tendons once thought to brace the heart. (15th-19th c.).
- hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
- heterogamous — Genetics. having unlike gametes, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to isogamous).
- heterografts — Plural form of heterograft.
- high treason — treason against the sovereign or state.
- histographic — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
- human rights — basic civil freedoms
- hydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hydrogenate.
- hygrochastic — of or relating to the opening of a fruit or flower caused by water or moisture
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- iatrogenesis — (medicine) Any adverse effect (or complication) resulting from medical treatment.
- ignorantness — The state or quality of being ignorant; ignorance.
- illustrating — Present participle of illustrate.
- immigrations — Plural form of immigration.
- incrassating — Present participle of incrassate.
- ingravescent — (esp of a disease) becoming more severe
- ingurgitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingurgitate.
- integralness — Integrality.
- integrations — Plural form of integration.
- interchanges — Plural form of interchange.
- interlacings — Plural form of interlacing.
- interrobangs — Plural form of interrobang.
- interrogates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interrogate.
- interspacing — Present participle of interspace.
- intransigent — refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible.
- invert sugar — a mixture of the dextrorotatory forms of glucose and fructose, formed naturally in fruits and produced artificially in syrups or fondants by treating cane sugar with acids.
- investigator — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- invigilators — Plural form of invigilator.
- invigorators — Plural form of invigorator.
- jan gossaert — Jan [Flemish yahn] /Flemish yɑn/ (Show IPA), (Jan Gossaert or Gossart) 1478?–1533? Flemish painter.
- jersey giant — one of a breed of large domestic chickens raised primarily for their meat, originally black but now with a white variety, developed in New Jersey by interbreeding Langshans and large Asiatic fowl.
- jumpstarting — Present participle of jumpstart.
- kashmir goat — one of a long-haired breed of goat raised in Tibet and the higher elevations of China, the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, and Turkey for its meat, milk, and cashmere wool.
- keratogenous — producing horn or a horny substance.
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- larval stage — Describes a period of monomaniacal concentration on coding apparently passed through by all fledgling hackers. Common symptoms include the perpetration of more than one 36-hour hacking run in a given week; neglect of all other activities including usual basics like food, sleep, and personal hygiene; and a chronic case of advanced bleary-eye. Can last from 6 months to 2 years, the apparent median being around 18 months. A few so afflicted never resume a more "normal" life, but the ordeal seems to be necessary to produce really wizardly (as opposed to merely competent) programmers. See also wannabee. A less protracted and intense version of larval stage (typically lasting about a month) may recur when one is learning a new OS or programming language.
- laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
- latchstrings — Plural form of latchstring.
- legislatures — a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
- letters page — the page in a newspaper or magazine containing letters sent to the editor by readers
- longirostral — (of birds) having a long beak
- macrogametes — Plural form of macrogamete.
- macrosegment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by a pause.
- magistracies — Plural form of magistracy.
- magnitogorsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River, near the boundary between Europe and Asia.
- manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
- masterbating — Misspelling of masturbating.
- mastersinger — Meistersinger (def 1).
- mastigophora — a phylum of protozoans comprising nonphotosynthetic, chiefly free-living flagellates: some species are important pathogens of humans and other animals.