12-letter words containing g, a, e, t
- geometrician — a person skilled in geometry.
- geopolitical — the study or the application of the influence of political and economic geography on the politics, national power, foreign policy, etc., of a state.
- geopotential — the difference between the potential energy of a mass at a given altitude and the potential energy of an identical mass at sea level, equivalent to the energy required to move the mass from sea level to the given altitude.
- geostrategic — Of, pertaining to, or using geostrategy.
- geotechnical — of or relating to practical applications of geological science in civil engineering, mining, etc.
- geothermally — By geothermal means, especially by means of geothermal energy.
- geriatrician — the branch of medicine dealing with the diseases, debilities, and care of aged persons.
- german sixth — (in musical harmony) an augmented sixth chord having a major third and a perfect fifth between the root and the augmented sixth
- germinations — Plural form of germination.
- gerontocracy — government by a council of elders.
- gesellschaft — an association of individuals for common goals, as for entertainment, intellectual, or cultural purposes or for business reasons.
- gesticulated — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- 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 a bun on — to become drunk
- get ahead of — to outdo or excel
- get ahold of — to get in touch with
- get anyplace — to have any success
- get anywhere — to be successful
- get cracking — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- get the idea — understand
- get the sack — be dismissed from job
- get up steam — (of a ship, etc) to work up a sufficient head of steam in a boiler to drive an engine
- ghost estate — (esp in Ireland) a housing estate built during an economic boom but unfinished or unoccupied during a recession
- giant fennel — a plant, Foeniculum vulgare, of the parsley family, having feathery leaves and umbels of small, yellow flowers.
- giant hornet — any large, stinging paper wasp of the family Vespidae, as Vespa crabro (giant hornet) introduced into the U.S. from Europe, or Vespula maculata (bald-faced hornet or white-faced hornet) of North America.
- giant killer — sb who defeats a larger opponent
- giant planet — any of the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, characterized by large mass, low density, and an extensive atmosphere
- giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
- giant-killer — A giant-killer is a sportsman, sportswoman, or team that unexpectedly beats a much stronger opponent.
- gift-wrapped — A gift-wrapped present is wrapped in pretty paper.
- gila monster — a large, venomous lizard, Heloderma suspectum, of the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico, covered with beadlike scales of yellow, orange, and black.
- give or take — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- glacis plate — the frontal plate armour on a tank
- glass cutter — a tool for cutting glass.
- glatt kosher — prepared for eating according to the dietary laws followed by Hasidic Jews, which differ somewhat from those followed by other observers of kashruth: glatt kosher meat.
- 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.
- glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
- gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
- glycerinated — to impregnate with glycerin.
- glycosylated — Simple past tense and past participle of glycosylate.
- gnatcatchers — Plural form of gnatcatcher.
- gnathostomes — Plural form of gnathostome.
- goddaughters — Plural form of goddaughter.
- gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
- gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- golden aster — any North American, asterlike, composite plant of the genus Chrysopsis, having bright, golden-yellow flower heads, as C. mariana, of the eastern U.S.
- golden ratio — the ratio of two lengths, equal in value to (1 + √5)/2, and given by b/a = (b + a)/b; it is the reciprocal of the golden section and also equal to (1 + golden section)
- golden stars — a plant, Bloomeria crocea, of the amaryllis family, native to southern California, having clusters of golden-orange, starlike flowers.
- golden state — California (used as a nickname).