12-letter words containing c, a, d, g
- egg sandwich — two slices of bread filled with chopped egg
- erciyas daği — an extinct volcano in central Turkey. Height 3916 m (12 848 ft)
- erciyes daği — an extinct volcano in central Turkey. Height 3916 m (12 848 ft)
- ethical drug — a drug which is only available legally with a doctor's prescription or consent
- fact-finding — a person who searches impartially for the facts or actualities of a subject or situation, especially one appointed to conduct an official investigation, as in a labor-management conflict.
- fancy diving — diving competition from a springboard into water, the contestants being judged chiefly by their grace and control in executing a specified series of dives in a prescribed manner.
- faraday cage — an enclosure constructed of grounded wire mesh or parallel wires that shields sensitive electrical instruments from electrostatic interference.
- fixed charge — an expense that cannot be modified.
- fudge factor — any variable component added to an experiment, plan, or the like that can be manipulated to allow leeway for error.
- fungicidally — in a fungicidal manner
- gaillard cut — an artificial cutting in the Panama Canal Zone, NW of the city of Panama: excavated for the Panama Canal. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- galactosides — Plural form of galactoside.
- gandy dancer — a member of a railroad section gang that lays or maintains track.
- gapped scale — a scale, such as a pentatonic scale, containing fewer than seven notes
- garden cress — a peppergrass, Lepidium sativum, used as a salad vegetable.
- garlic bread — baguette toasted with garlic and butter
- gas cylinder — container for storing gas
- gas dynamics — the study of the dynamic properties of gases and their thermal effects.
- gastric band — A gastric band is a device that is fitted inside someone's stomach to make it smaller in order to help them lose weight.
- genetic load — the extent to which a population deviates from the theoretically fittest genetic constitution.
- geodetically — pertaining to geodesy.
- gesticulated — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- glycerinated — to impregnate with glycerin.
- glycosidases — Plural form of glycosidase.
- glycosylated — Simple past tense and past participle of glycosylate.
- go-go dancer — an entertainer who performs popular dances on a stage or platform for the patrons of a discotheque or nightclub.
- gonadotropic — pertaining to substances formed in the anterior pituitary gland that affect the activity of the ovary or testis.
- gondola back — a chair or couch back curving forward and downward to form arms.
- grace period — a period of time after a payment becomes due, as of a loan or life-insurance premium, before one is subject to penalties or late charges or before the loan or policy is canceled.
- grade school — an elementary school that has its pupils grouped or classified into grades.
- gradualistic — Of or pertaining to gradualism.
- grand canary — one of the Canary Islands, in the central part. 650 sq. mi. (1685 sq. km). Capital: Las Palmas.
- grand canyon — a gorge of the Colorado River in N Arizona. over 200 miles (320 km) long; 1 mile (1.6 km) deep.
- grand cayman — the largest of the Cayman Islands, West Indies. 76 sq. mi. (197 sq. km).
- 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
- graving dock — an excavated shore dry dock for the repair and maintenance of ships.
- gray catbird — any of several American or Australian birds having catlike cries, especially Dumetella carolinensis (gray catbird) of North America.
- 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.
- griddlecakes — Plural form of griddlecake.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground cedar — a ground pine, Lycopodium complanatum.
- ground track — the path on the earth's surface below an aircraft, missile, rocket, or spacecraft.
- grudge match — You can call a contest between two people or groups a grudge match when they dislike each other.
- 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.
- hand-picking — to pick by hand.
- handclapping — The activity of clapping hands, especially as part of a musical performance.
- handcrafting — Present participle of handcraft.
- handicapping — Present participle of handicap.
- hedge garlic — an erect, cruciferous herb, Sisymbrium officinale, having a garlicky odor.