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12-letter words containing g, e, n, a, l, o

  • retrolingual — situated behind or near the base of the tongue.
  • ring-a-levio — a children's game in which members of one group try to find and capture hiding members of another group: a captured player is kept in a circle drawn on the ground and is set free when tagged by a teammate
  • role playing — role-play used as a method of training or education
  • role-playing — a method of instruction or psychotherapy aimed at changing attitudes and behavior, in which participants act out designated roles relevant to real-life situations.
  • sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
  • semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • single modal — modal (def 3).
  • sloganeering — Sloganeering is the use of slogans by people such as politicians or advertising agencies.
  • smoke signal — If someone such as a politician or businessman sends out smoke signals, they give an indication of their views and intentions. This indication is often not clear and needs to be worked out.
  • snaggletooth — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
  • solar energy — energy derived from the sun in the form of solar radiation.
  • solenogaster — any of a group of wormlike mollusks, class Solenogastres (formerly Aplacophora), inhabiting deep ocean layers and having fine limy spicules on the covering mantle.
  • sov language — a type of language that has basic subject-object-verb order, as Turkish, Japanese, or Tamil.
  • splenomegaly — enlargement of the spleen.
  • stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • svo language — a type of language that has basic subject-verb-object word order, as English, Chinese, or Spanish.
  • teetotalling — of or relating to, advocating, or pledged to total abstinence from intoxicating drink.
  • telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
  • tone dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein tones of differing pitch corresponding to the digits in the number called are electronically generated by manipulating pushbuttons (contrasted with pulse dialing).
  • tongue-blade — a broad, thin piece of wood used by doctors to hold down the patient's tongue during an examination of the mouth and throat.
  • un-ignorable — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
  • unapologetic — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
  • uncatalogued — not added to or detailed in a catalogue
  • uncoagulated — Obsolete. coagulated.
  • uncognizable — capable of being perceived or known.
  • uncollegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
  • unconcealing — not concealing or hiding anything; revealing
  • unecological — the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms.
  • unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
  • unglamorized — not glamorized
  • ungovernable — impossible to govern, rule, or restrain; uncontrollable.
  • unnegotiable — capable of being negotiated: a negotiable salary demand.
  • unvoyageable — not able to be sailed or otherwise journeyed over; untraversable; innavigable
  • urinogenital — genitourinary.
  • vaginicoline — living in a sheath
  • vegetational — all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: the vegetation of the Nile valley.
  • volcanogenic — created by a volcano; of volcanic origin.
  • vox angelica — an organ stop with a soft tone, often similar to the voix céleste
  • vso language — a type of language that has basic verb-subject-object word order, as Welsh, classical Arabic, or Tagalog.
  • walk on eggs — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
  • walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
  • wallcovering — a flexible sheet of sized paper, fabric, plastic, etc., usually laminated and printed with a repeat pattern, for pasting on a wall as decoration and protection.
  • waterfowling — the sport of shooting waterfowl
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