12-letter words containing g, a, s, t, h
- garnishments — Plural form of garnishment.
- gastightness — the state or quality of being gastight
- gate-crasher — a person who attends or enters a social function without an invitation, a theater without a ticket, etc.
- gatecrashers — Plural form of gatecrasher.
- gatecrashing — Present participle of gatecrash.
- gazetteerish — in the style of a gazetteer
- gemeinschaft — an association of individuals having sentiments, tastes, and attitudes in common; fellowship.
- german sixth — (in musical harmony) an augmented sixth chord having a major third and a perfect fifth between the root and the augmented sixth
- gesellschaft — an association of individuals for common goals, as for entertainment, intellectual, or cultural purposes or for business reasons.
- get the sack — be dismissed from job
- ghost estate — (esp in Ireland) a housing estate built during an economic boom but unfinished or unoccupied during a recession
- 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.
- gnatcatchers — Plural form of gnatcatcher.
- gnathostomes — Plural form of gnathostome.
- goddaughters — Plural form of goddaughter.
- gopher state — Minnesota (used as a nickname).
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- gramophonist — a person who uses a gramophone
- grandfathers — Plural form of grandfather.
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- granny smith — a variety of crisp, green-skinned apple, for eating raw or for cooking.
- graphic arts — any of the fine or applied visual arts based on drawing or the use of line, as opposed to colour or relief, on a plane surface, esp illustration and printmaking of all kinds
- graphologist — the study of handwriting, especially when regarded as an expression of the writer's character, personality, abilities, etc.
- grapple shot — a grapnellike projectile fired from a gun and used as a hold for the end of a line in rescue operations or in kedging.
- 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.
- gustav hertz — Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1887–1975, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1925.
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- hamstringing — Present participle of hamstring.
- hand setting — Also called French telephone. a telephone having a mouthpiece and earpiece mounted at opposite ends of a handle.
- hanging post — a post from which a door, gate, etc., is hung.
- hanging step — a step projecting from a wall with no real or apparent support at its outer end.
- haptoglobins — Plural form of haptoglobin.
- hardstanding — a hard surface on which cars, aircraft etc. may stand
- have got sth — You use have got to say that someone has a particular thing, or to mention a quality or characteristic that someone or something has. In informal American English, people sometimes just use 'got'.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- 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.).
- heat-seeking — A heat-seeking missile or device is one that is able to detect a source of heat.
- heavyweights — Plural form of heavyweight.
- hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
- hematogenous — originating in the blood.
- hematologist — the study of the nature, function, and diseases of the blood and of blood-forming organs.
- hepatogenous — originating in the liver
- hesitatingly — In a hesitating manner.
- 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.
- hippophagist — a person who eats horseflesh.
- histographic — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
- histological — the branch of biology dealing with the study of tissues.