12-letter words containing g, a, u, s, e
- great sunday — Easter Sunday.
- gregariously — fond of the company of others; sociable.
- grossularite — a mineral, calcium aluminum garnet, Ca 3 Al 2 Si 3 O 12 , occurring in gray-white to pinkish crystals.
- ground state — the state of least energy of a particle, as an atom, or of a system of particles.
- guesstimated — Simple past tense and past participle of guesstimate.
- guesstimates — Plural form of guesstimate.
- guinea grass — a grass, Panicum maximum, native to Africa, used for forage in warm regions of North and South America.
- gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
- gustav hertz — Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1887–1975, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1925.
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- gutturalness — The quality of being guttural.
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- hazel grouse — a European woodland grouse, Tetrastes bonasia, somewhat resembling the North American ruffed grouse.
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
- hematogenous — originating in the blood.
- hepatogenous — originating in the liver
- heterogamous — Genetics. having unlike gametes, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to isogamous).
- horse guards — the mounted squadrons supplied by the Household Cavalry for ceremonial duties
- house league — a sports league in which the members of all teams belong to the same organization, school, or company
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- hunger pangs — sudden strong feelings of hunger
- hunting case — a watchcase with a hinged cover to protect the crystal.
- ingurgitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingurgitate.
- invert sugar — a mixture of the dextrorotatory forms of glucose and fructose, formed naturally in fruits and produced artificially in syrups or fondants by treating cane sugar with acids.
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- keratogenous — producing horn or a horny substance.
- langoustines — Plural form of langoustine.
- languageless — without language or a language
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
- laser-guided — (of a missile, etc) guided with the use of a laser beam
- legislatures — a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
- ligurian sea — a part of the Mediterranean between Corsica and the NW coast of Italy.
- loganiaceous — belonging to the plant family Loganiaceae.
- logodaedalus — a person who uses words with skill or cunning
- long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
- louise bogan — Louise, 1897–1970, U.S. poet.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
- magic square — a square containing integers arranged in an equal number of rows and columns so that the sum of the integers in any row, column, or diagonal is the same.
- magnetopause — the boundary between the earth's magnetosphere and interplanetary space, about 40,000 miles (65,000 km) above the earth, marked by an abrupt decrease in the earth's magnetic induction.
- maneuverings — Plural form of maneuvering.
- manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
- manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
- mao tse-tung — 1893–1976, Chinese Communist leader: chairman of the People's Republic of China 1949–59; chairman of the Chinese Communist Party 1943–76.
- masquerading — a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes.
- megachurches — Plural form of megachurch.
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey