12-letter words containing g, e, t, o
- waterlogging — to cause (a boat, ship, etc.) to become uncontrollable as a result of flooding.
- well-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- wellingtonia — (UK) A large coniferous tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum, from California.
- west chicago — a town in NE Illinois.
- westinghouse — George, 1846–1914, U.S. inventor and manufacturer.
- wherethrough — through which; because of
- white-ground — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece from the 6th to the 4th centuries b.c., characterized chiefly by a white background of slip onto which were painted polychromatic figures.
- whole-length — extended to or having its entire length; not shortened or abridged: a whole-length report.
- wigglesworth — Michael, 1631–1705, U.S. theologian and author, born in England.
- wigtownshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- woolgatherer — One who engages in woolgathering.
- xanthogenate — Xanthate.
- xenoestrogen — (biochemistry) A xenohormone that imitates estrogen.
- yellow light — a yellow traffic light, usually preceding a signal halting traffic in a particular direction.
- yogurt-maker — a machine for making yogurt
- zero gravity — the condition in which the apparent effect of gravity is zero, as in the case of a body in free fall or in orbit.
- zero tillage — no-tillage.
- zone melting — a process of purifying any of various metals and other materials, as germanium or silicon, by passing it in bar form through an induction coil.
- zoomastigote — A zooflagellate: a heterotrophic flagellate of the phylum Zoomastigophora.