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12-letter words containing g, e, s, t

  • get stuffed! — an exclamation of contemptuous anger or annoyance, esp against another person
  • get the sack — be dismissed from job
  • get to grips — to deal with (a problem or subject)
  • get to sleep — If you cannot get to sleep, you are unable to sleep.
  • get up steam — (of a ship, etc) to work up a sufficient head of steam in a boiler to drive an engine
  • ghost estate — (esp in Ireland) a housing estate built during an economic boom but unfinished or unoccupied during a recession
  • ghost writer — a person who writes one or numerous speeches, books, articles, etc., for another person who is named as or presumed to be the author.
  • ghostbusters — Plural form of ghostbuster.
  • ghostwriters — Plural form of ghostwriter.
  • ghostwritten — Written by a ghostwriter.
  • gila monster — a large, venomous lizard, Heloderma suspectum, of the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico, covered with beadlike scales of yellow, orange, and black.
  • give rise to — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
  • give suck to — to give (a baby or young animal) milk from the breast or udder
  • glacis plate — the frontal plate armour on a tank
  • glass cutter — a tool for cutting glass.
  • 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.
  • glisteningly — In a glistening manner.
  • glomerulitis — inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney.
  • glossematics — a school of linguistic analysis developed by Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) in Copenhagen in the 1930s based on the study of the distribution of glossemes.
  • glycosylated — Simple past tense and past participle of glycosylate.
  • gnatcatchers — Plural form of gnatcatcher.
  • gnathostomes — Plural form of gnathostome.
  • go to pieces — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • god's plenty — an abundant or overabundant quantity.
  • goddaughters — Plural form of goddaughter.
  • golden aster — any North American, asterlike, composite plant of the genus Chrysopsis, having bright, golden-yellow flower heads, as C. mariana, of the eastern U.S.
  • golden stars — a plant, Bloomeria crocea, of the amaryllis family, native to southern California, having clusters of golden-orange, starlike flowers.
  • golden state — California (used as a nickname).
  • goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
  • gopher state — Minnesota (used as a nickname).
  • gospel truth — an unquestionably true statement, fact, etc.
  • governorates — Plural form of governorate.
  • gracefullest — Superlative form of graceful.
  • graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
  • grammaticise — to make grammatical
  • grand master — the head of a military order of knighthood, a lodge, fraternal order, or the like.
  • grandfathers — Plural form of grandfather.
  • grandmasters — Plural form of grandmaster.
  • grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
  • grandparents — a parent of a parent.
  • grandstanded — Simple past tense and past participle of grandstand.
  • grandstander — the main seating area of a stadium, racetrack, parade route, or the like, usually consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats.
  • granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
  • 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.
  • grass cutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
  • grass-cutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
  • gratefulness — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
  • grease paint — an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
  • great gatsby — a novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
  • great plains — a semiarid region E of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada.
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