12-letter words containing d, o, g, s
- good offices — Someone's good offices are the help that they give to other people who are trying to achieve something.
- goods engine — a railway locomotive used to haul a freight train.
- goods siding — a short railway track beside the main tracks where goods trains or goods wagons are left when they are not being used
- gormandising — Present participle of gormandise.
- gormandizers — gourmandise1 .
- grade school — an elementary school that has its pupils grouped or classified into grades.
- grand rounds — a formal hospital meeting at which physicians discuss interesting medical cases.
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- grosswardein — German name of Oradea.
- ground frost — the condition resulting from a temperature reading of 0°C or below on a thermometer in contact with a grass surface
- ground glass — Optics. glass that has had its polished surface removed by fine grinding and that is used to diffuse light.
- ground rules — Usually, ground rules. basic or governing principles of conduct in any situation or field of endeavor: the ground rules of press conferences.
- ground shark — any of various requiem sharks, especially of the genus Carcharhinus.
- ground sloth — any of various extinct large, edentate mammals from the Pleistocene Epoch of North and South America resembling modern sloths but living on the ground rather than in trees.
- 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.
- groundbursts — Plural form of groundburst.
- groundedness — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
- groundlessly — In a groundless manner; without justification.
- groundsheets — Plural form of groundsheet.
- groundstroke — A stroke played after the ball has bounced, as opposed to a volley.
- guelder rose — a shrub, Viburnum opulus, of the honeysuckle family, native to the Old World, having broad clusters of white flowers and scarlet fruit.
- guelder-rose — a shrub, Viburnum opulus, of the honeysuckle family, native to the Old World, having broad clusters of white flowers and scarlet fruit.
- guide fossil — index fossil.
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- gynodioecism — the condition of having flowers that are only female in one example of a plant and flowers that have stamens and pistils in another example of a plant of the same species
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- headlongness — Headlong quality or speed; precipitateness.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- hedge hyssop — any plant of the genus Gratiola, a bitter herb used medicinally.
- hedge-school — a school held out of doors in favourable weather, indoors in winter
- hold against — resent sb for sth
- hollingshead — Holinshed.
- homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- hornswoggled — Simple past tense and past participle of hornswoggle.
- horse guards — the mounted squadrons supplied by the Household Cavalry for ceremonial duties
- horse riding — activity: riding on a horse
- house of god — Also called house of worship, house of prayer. a building devoted to religious worship; a church, synagogue, temple, chapel, etc.
- hunting dogs — the constellation Canes Venatici.
- hydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hydrogenate.
- hydrologists — Plural form of hydrologist.
- hypogonadism — diminished hormonal or reproductive functioning in the testes or the ovaries.
- indigenously — originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often followed by to): the plants indigenous to Canada; the indigenous peoples of southern Africa.
- indignations — Plural form of indignation.
- indigo snake — a large, deep-blue or brown harmless snake, Drymarchon corais, ranging from the southern U.S. to South America and invading burrows to prey on small mammals: the eastern subspecies D. corais couperi is now greatly reduced in number.
- indologenous — producing or causing the production of indole.
- isle of dogs — a district in the East End of London, bounded on three sides by the River Thames, and a focus of major office development (Canary Wharf) in recent years
- jeopardising — Present participle of jeopardise.
- kiss goodbye — to kiss in taking leave
- landholdings — Plural form of landholding.