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12-letter words containing g, o, d, h

  • neighborhood — the area or region around or near some place or thing; vicinity: the kids of the neighborhood; located in the neighborhood of Jackson and Vine streets.
  • night editor — an editor responsible for getting a morning newspaper to press, for the night operations of a wire service, or the like.
  • non-shedding — to pour forth (water or other liquid), as a fountain.
  • north riding — a former administrative division of Yorkshire, in N England, now part of North Yorkshire, Cleveland, and Durham.
  • odontography — a treatise regarding the teeth
  • off the grid — not using any of the services, such as bank accounts, public utilites, etc, that allow a person's activities to be monitored by the authorities
  • on the cadge — engaged in cadging
  • overweighted — weighing too much or more than is considered normal, proper, etc.: overweight luggage; an overweight patient; two letters that may be overweight.
  • parahydrogen — the form of molecular hydrogen in which the nuclei of the two hydrogen atoms contained in the molecule have spins in opposite directions.
  • plagiohedral — (of a crystal) having faces arranged obliquely in a helix.
  • postmidnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
  • potting shed — A potting shed is a small building in a garden, in which you can keep things such as seeds or garden tools.
  • pseudography — writing that does not follow conventional spelling or usage
  • radiographer — X-ray technician
  • read-through — reading (def 1).
  • red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
  • rhodes grass — a grass, Chloris gayana, native to Africa, used as pasturage and fodder in warm climates.
  • ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
  • right-to-die — asserting or advocating the right to refuse extraordinary medical measures to prolong one's life when one is terminally ill or irreversibly comatose: right-to-die laws.
  • road haulage — transport of goods by road
  • rockhounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks
  • rough-voiced — having a harsh or grating voice: a rough-voiced barker.
  • scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
  • second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
  • shadowgraphy — the production of a shadowgraph
  • shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • shepherd dog — sheepdog.
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • shortsighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
  • shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
  • shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
  • siderography — the art or technique of engraving on steel.
  • smallholding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
  • sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
  • sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
  • st. gotthard — a mountain range in S Switzerland; a part of the Alps; highest peak, 10,490 feet (3195 meters).
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
  • the go-ahead — permission to proceed
  • the good oil — true or reliable facts, information, etc
  • thiodiglycol — C4H10O2S, a yellowish viscous liquid used as a solvent
  • thirdborough — an under constable of a township
  • thoroughbred — of pure or unmixed breed, stock, or lineage, as a horse or other animal; bred from the purest and best blood.
  • thought-read — to read someone's mind or psychically know what someone's thoughts are
  • touch and go — precarious situation
  • touch ground — (of a ship) to strike the sea bed
  • touch-and-go — risky; precarious: a touch-and-go descent down the mountain.
  • tough-minded — characterized by a practical, unsentimental attitude or point of view.
  • turbocharged — with additional power from turbine
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