12-letter words containing e, c, s, t
- gesticulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gesticulate.
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- get stuck in — If you get stuck in, you do something with enthusiasm and determination.
- get the sack — be dismissed from job
- give suck to — to give (a baby or young animal) milk from the breast or udder
- glacis plate — the frontal plate armour on a tank
- glass cutter — a tool for cutting glass.
- glossematics — a school of linguistic analysis developed by Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) in Copenhagen in the 1930s based on the study of the distribution of glossemes.
- glycosylated — Simple past tense and past participle of glycosylate.
- gnatcatchers — Plural form of gnatcatcher.
- go to pieces — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- gracefullest — Superlative form of graceful.
- grammaticise — to make grammatical
- 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.
- great schism — a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378–1417, over papal succession, during which there were two, or sometimes three, claimants to the papal office.
- gynecologist — a physician specializing in gynecology. Abbreviation: GYN, gyn.
- gynecomastia — abnormal enlargement of the breast in a male.
- hadley chest — a style of chest made c1700 in Massachusetts or Connecticut, having front rails and panels carved in low relief with elaborate tulip and leaf patterns.
- half section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- half-section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- hallucinates — to have hallucinations.
- hamantaschen — a small triangular cake often made with yeast and filled with a mixture of poppy seeds and honey or with prune paste, prepared especially for the festival of Purim.
- handstitched — Stitched by hand.
- happenstance — a chance happening or event.
- harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
- health scare — a state of alarm caused by a revelation concerning public heath
- hectocotylus — a modified arm of the male of certain cephalopods that is used to transfer sperm to the female.
- hegemonistic — the policy or practice of hegemony to serve national interests.
- hematocolpos — (medicine) A medical condition in which the vagina fills with menstrual blood, often caused by the combination of menstruation with an imperforate hymen.
- hemiscotosis — hemianopsia.
- hemstitching — Present participle of hemstitch.
- henotheistic — Relating to henotheism.
- hermeneutics — the science of interpretation, especially of the Scriptures.
- herstmonceux — a village in S England, in E Sussex north of Eastbourne: 15th-century castle, site of the Royal Observatory, which was transferred from Greenwich between 1948 and 1958, until 1990
- heteroclisis — (grammar) The presence of two or more classes of inflection in the inflectional paradigm of a noun, verb etc.
- heteroclites — Plural form of heteroclite.
- heteroecious — the development of different stages of a parasitic species on different host plants.
- heterosocial — relating to or denoting mixed-sex social relationships
- hever castle — a Tudor mansion near Edenbridge in Kent: home of Anne Boleyn before her marriage; Italian garden added in the 20th century by the Astor family
- hierarchists — hierarchical principles, rule, or influence.
- high society — society (def 9).
- histochemist — someone who specializes in histochemistry
- historicized — Simple past tense and past participle of historicize.
- hit the sack — a large bag of strong, coarsely woven material, as for grain, potatoes, or coal.
- hockey skate — a tubular ice skate having a shorter blade than a racing skate and often having a reinforced shoe for protection.
- hockey stick — the stick used in field hockey or ice hockey.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- home stretch — final stages: of race or journey