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12-letter words containing g, e, h, l

  • gesellschaft — an association of individuals for common goals, as for entertainment, intellectual, or cultural purposes or for business reasons.
  • get ahold of — to get in touch with
  • ghoulishness — The quality of being ghoulish.
  • give sb hell — If you say that something is giving you hell, you are emphasizing that it is causing you a lot of trouble or pain.
  • glacé cherry — a crystallized or candied cherry, used in cookery and cocktail-making
  • glassyheaded — smooth; bald
  • 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.
  • glenohumeral — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the glenoid fossa and the humerus.
  • 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.
  • glutethimide — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 13 H 15 NO 2 , used as a hypnotic and sedative.
  • go whole hog — Nautical. (of a hull) to have less than the proper amount of sheer because of structural weakness; arch. Compare sag (def 6a).
  • gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
  • golden bough — a branch of mistletoe, sacred to Proserpina, that served Aeneas as a pass to the underworld.
  • golden hello — A golden hello is a sum of money that a company offers to a person in order to persuade them to join the company.
  • golden horde — the army of Mongol Tartars that overran eastern Europe in the 13th century, established a khanate in Russia, and maintained suzerainty there until the 15th century.
  • golden perch — a freshwater food fish, Plectroplites ambiguus, that inhabits inland waters of Australia.
  • golden share — a share in a company that controls at least 51% of the voting rights, esp one retained by the UK government in some privatization issues
  • goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
  • gospel choir — a choir performing gospel music
  • gospel truth — an unquestionably true statement, fact, etc.
  • grade school — an elementary school that has its pupils grouped or classified into grades.
  • 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.
  • greenlighted — to give permission to proceed; authorize: The renovation project was green-lighted by the board of directors.
  • gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
  • gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
  • h paul grice — H(erbert) Paul, 1913–88, English philosopher.
  • half-english — of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
  • half-glasses — a pair of eyeglasses, often shaped like the lower half of regular eyeglasses, containing lenses to aid in reading and not suitable for distance vision.
  • hallucinogen — a substance that produces hallucinations.
  • halogen lamp — a gas-filled, high-intensity incandescent lamp having a tungsten filament and containing a small amount of a halogen, such as iodine, that vaporizes on heating and redeposits any evaporated tungsten particles back onto the filament: used especially in motion-picture projectors and automobile headlights.
  • halogenating — Present participle of halogenate.
  • halogenation — (chemistry) The reaction of a halogen with something, especially the replacement of a hydrogen atom of an organic compound with a halogen one.
  • hand luggage — carry-on baggage
  • hand-selling — a gift or token for good luck or as an expression of good wishes, as at the beginning of the new year or when entering upon a new situation or enterprise.
  • hard feeling — resentment; ill will
  • hash-slinger — a waiter or waitress, especially in a hash house.
  • haulage firm — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • hazel grouse — a European woodland grouse, Tetrastes bonasia, somewhat resembling the North American ruffed grouse.
  • headlighting — The lighting associated with a headlight.
  • headlongness — Headlong quality or speed; precipitateness.
  • headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
  • hearing loss — diminished ability to hear
  • hearteningly — In a heartening way; cheeringly.
  • heating bill — a bill for the supply of energy to heat a building
  • hedda gabler — a play (1890) by Henrik Ibsen.
  • hedge garlic — an erect, cruciferous herb, Sisymbrium officinale, having a garlicky odor.
  • hedge laying — the art or practice of making or maintaining a hedge by cutting branches partway through, laying them horizontally, and pegging them in position in order to create a strong thick hedge
  • hedge nettle — a slender-leafed, hairy plant, Stachys palustris, of the mint family, abundant along roadsides and in fields and marshes, having clusters of tubular, purple flowers on a spike.
  • hedge-school — a school held out of doors in favourable weather, indoors in winter
  • heeling tank — either of two lateral ballast tanks permitting an icebreaker to heel and crush ice to either side.
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