12-letter words containing g, e, t, a, l, o
- scots gaelic — Scottish Gaelic
- sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
- self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.
- 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.
- shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
- signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
- slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
- snaggletooth — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
- sole legatee — the only person who receives a legacy
- 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.
- stigmasterol — a crystalline, water-insoluble steroid, C 2 9 H 4 8 O, present in soybeans or calabar beans, used chiefly as a raw material in the manufacture of progesterone.
- stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
- storage cell — a cell whose energy can be renewed by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to that of the flow of current generated by the cell.
- storage wall — a set of shelves, cabinets, or the like that covers or forms a wall.
- stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
- tattie-bogle — a scarecrow
- teetotalling — of or relating to, advocating, or pledged to total abstinence from intoxicating drink.
- telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
- telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
- teleological — of or relating to teleology, the philosophical doctrine that final causes, design, and purpose exist in nature.
- theologaster — a person who pretends to be a theologian; a shallow or quack theologian
- tollgatherer — a person who collects tolls, taxes, or other imposts.
- 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.
- 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.
- uncollegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
- unnegotiable — capable of being negotiated: a negotiable salary demand.
- urinogenital — genitourinary.
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- vegetal pole — the relatively inactive part of an ovum opposite the animal pole, containing much yolk and little cytoplasm.
- vegetational — all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: the vegetation of the Nile valley.
- waterfowling — the sport of shooting waterfowl
- waterlogging — to cause (a boat, ship, etc.) to become uncontrollable as a result of flooding.
- wellingtonia — (UK) A large coniferous tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum, from California.
- woolgatherer — One who engages in woolgathering.
- zero tillage — no-tillage.