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12-letter words containing g, l, a, s, f

  • grass family — the large plant family Gramineae (or Poaceae), characterized by mostly herbaceous but sometimes woody plants with hollow and jointed stems, narrow sheathing leaves, petalless flowers borne in spikelets, and fruit in the form of seedlike grain, and including bamboo, sugar cane, numerous grasses, and cereal grains such as barley, corn, oats, rice, rye, and wheat.
  • gratefulness — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
  • gulf of siam — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
  • 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.
  • iguaçú falls — a waterfall on the border between Brazil and Argentina, on the Iguaçú River: divided into hundreds of separate falls by forested rocky islands. Width: about 4 km (2.5 miles). Height: 82 m (269 ft)
  • leapfroggers — Plural form of leapfrogger.
  • life savings — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
  • lifting sail — a sail that when filled tends to raise the hull of a ship or boat (opposed to driving sail).
  • ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
  • lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
  • olefiant gas — ethylene (def 2).
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
  • safety glass — a pane made by joining two plates or panes of glass with a layer of usually transparent plastic or artificial resin between them that retains the fragments if the glass is broken.
  • saronic gulf — an inlet of the Aegean, on the SE coast of Greece, between Attica and the Peloponnesus. 50 miles (80 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.
  • sedge family — the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.
  • self-antigen — autoantigen.
  • self-basting — (of a turkey) prepared with oil or butter to remain moist when cooked in an oven.
  • self-damning — causing incrimination: damning evidence.
  • self-dealing — financial transaction conducted on a personal, nonbusinesslike basis, as lending or borrowing of corporate money by a director.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-healing — curing or curative; prescribed or helping to heal.
  • self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
  • self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
  • self-playing — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • self-raising — a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into the subject or object position of the main clause, as in the derivation of The suspect appears to be innocent from It appears that the suspect is innocent.
  • self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
  • self-sealing — capable of sealing itself automatically or without the application of adhesive, glue, or moisture: a self-sealing automobile tire; self-sealing envelopes.
  • self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.
  • self-tanning — cosmetic substance applied to the skin to simulate a suntan
  • self-tapping — (of a screw) cutting its own thread when screwed into a plain hole in a metal sheet
  • 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.
  • soft landing — space vehicle
  • space flight — journey into outer space
  • spongillafly — spongefly.
  • sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
  • walking fish — any of various fishes able to survive and move about for short periods of time on land, as the mudskipper or climbing perch.
  • wineglassful — the capacity of a wineglass, typically containing four to six fluid ounces.
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