12-letter words containing g, o, d, h
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- drug holiday — a brief period during which a patient stops taking a prescribed medication, especially an antidepressant, to recover some normal functions, reduce side effects, or maintain sensitivity to the drug.
- duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
- english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers
- floodlighted — Simple past tense and past participle of floodlight.
- foregathered — Simple past tense and past participle of foregather.
- fourth grade — school year: age 9-10
- geohydrology — hydrogeology.
- get ahead of — to outdo or excel
- get ahold of — to get in touch with
- go down with — If you go down with an illness or a disease, you catch it.
- go hard with — to cause pain or difficulty to (someone)
- go the round — to be circulated among a number of people: said of a story, rumor, etc.
- gobind singh — 1666–1708, tenth and last guru of the Sikhs (1675–1708): assassinated
- god-botherer — an over-zealous Christian
- goddaughters — Plural form of goddaughter.
- gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
- golden bough — a branch of mistletoe, sacred to Proserpina, that served Aeneas as a pass to the underworld.
- golden hello — A golden hello is a sum of money that a company offers to a person in order to persuade them to join the company.
- golden horde — the army of Mongol Tartars that overran eastern Europe in the 13th century, established a khanate in Russia, and maintained suzerainty there until the 15th century.
- golden perch — a freshwater food fish, Plectroplites ambiguus, that inhabits inland waters of Australia.
- golden share — a share in a company that controls at least 51% of the voting rights, esp one retained by the UK government in some privatization issues
- goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
- goldsmithing — The work of a goldsmith; the forging of gold.
- good heavens — You say 'Good heavens!' or 'Heavens!' to express surprise or to emphasize that you agree or disagree with someone.
- good-hearted — kind or generous; considerate; benevolent.
- good-humored — having or showing a pleasant, amiable mood: a good-humored man; a good-humored remark.
- grade school — an elementary school that has its pupils grouped or classified into grades.
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- griffin-hood — (in India and the East) a newcomer, especially a white person from a Western country.
- ground cloth — groundsheet.
- ground shark — any of various requiem sharks, especially of the genus Carcharhinus.
- ground sloth — any of various extinct large, edentate mammals from the Pleistocene Epoch of North and South America resembling modern sloths but living on the ground rather than in trees.
- groundsheets — Plural form of groundsheet.
- hamming code — (algorithm) Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
- hand-holding — the act of holding hands, especially as a sign or token of affection.
- hard-working — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- have a (good — to feel (strongly) inclined to
- have it good — to be in comfortable circumstances
- headlongness — Headlong quality or speed; precipitateness.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- hedge hyssop — any plant of the genus Gratiola, a bitter herb used medicinally.
- hedge-school — a school held out of doors in favourable weather, indoors in winter
- hedgehopping — Present participle of hedgehop.
- heliographed — Simple past tense and past participle of heliograph.
- hendecagonal — (geometry) Having eleven sides an angles; similar to a hendecagon.
- herringboned — Simple past tense and past participle of herringbone.
- heterodyning — Present participle of heterodyne.
- high and low — having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall.