12-letter words containing g, c, h
- 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.
- gemeinschaft — an association of individuals having sentiments, tastes, and attitudes in common; fellowship.
- genethliacon — A birthday ode.
- geochemistry — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
- geographical — of or relating to geography.
- geomechanics — the study and application of rock and soil mechanics
- geophysicist — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- geotechnical — of or relating to practical applications of geological science in civil engineering, mining, etc.
- gesellschaft — an association of individuals for common goals, as for entertainment, intellectual, or cultural purposes or for business reasons.
- get in touch — make contact
- get the sack — be dismissed from job
- gift voucher — gift certificate.
- gigantomachy — (in Greek mythology) the struggle between the gods and the giants.
- glacé cherry — a crystallized or candied cherry, used in cookery and cocktail-making
- global reach — When people talk about the global reach of a company or industry, they mean its ability to have customers in many different parts of the world.
- gnatcatchers — Plural form of gnatcatcher.
- golden perch — a freshwater food fish, Plectroplites ambiguus, that inhabits inland waters of Australia.
- gospel choir — a choir performing gospel music
- gothic armor — white armor of the 15th century, marked especially by much fluting and ornamentation.
- grace hopper — (person) US Navy Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Hopper (1906-12-09 to 1992-01-01), née Grace Brewster Murray. Hopper is believed to have concieved the concept of the compiler with the A-0 in 1952. She also developed the first commercial high-level language, which eventually evolved into COBOL. She worked on the Mark I computer with Howard Aiken and with BINAC in 1949. She is credited with having coined the term "debug", and the adage "it is always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" (with various wordings), which has been the guiding principle in sysadmin decisions ever since. See also the entries debug and bug. Hopper is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. In 1994, the US Navy named a new ship, the guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper, after her.
- grade school — an elementary school that has its pupils grouped or classified into grades.
- 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
- graphophonic — a phonograph for recording and reproducing sounds on wax records.
- grass hockey — field hockey.
- 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.
- greek church — Greek Orthodox Church (def 1).
- greenfinches — Plural form of greenfinch.
- ground cloth — groundsheet.
- growth curve — a curve on a graph in which a variable is plotted against time to illustrate the growth of the variable
- grudge match — You can call a contest between two people or groups a grudge match when they dislike each other.
- gut-churning — nerve-wracking
- gutta-percha — the milky juice, nearly white when pure, of various Malaysian trees of the sapodilla family, especially Palaquium gutta.
- gutwrenching — Alternative spelling of gut-wrenching.
- h paul grice — H(erbert) Paul, 1913–88, English philosopher.
- haemorrhagic — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of hemorrhagic.
- hagiocracies — Plural form of hagiocracy.
- hagiographic — Of or pertaining to hagiography.
- hagiological — Relating to hagiology.
- haircoloring — dye or tint for the hair.
- hallucinogen — a substance that produces hallucinations.
- hamming code — (algorithm) Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
- hand-picking — to pick by hand.
- handclapping — The activity of clapping hands, especially as part of a musical performance.
- handcrafting — Present participle of handcraft.
- handicapping — Present participle of handicap.
- hangchow bay — a bay of the East China Sea.
- havana cigar — any of various cigars hand rolled in Cuba, known esp for their high quality
- hedge garlic — an erect, cruciferous herb, Sisymbrium officinale, having a garlicky odor.