12-letter words containing g, o, d, h
- underwrought — to do less work on than is necessary or required: to underwork an idea.
- videographer — a person who makes films with a video camera.
- wagon-headed — of the form of a round arch or a semicylinder, like the cover of a wagon when stretched over the bows, as a ceiling or roof.
- washing soda — sodium carbonate (def 2).
- watchdogging — a dog kept to guard property.
- 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.
- winged horse — the constellation Pegasus.
- withholdings — Plural form of withholding.
- wood's light — ultraviolet light filtered through glass containing nickel oxide, used in detecting forgeries, in detecting microbes in hair, etc.
- woodshedding — Present participle of woodshed.
- wordsmithing — Present participle of wordsmith.
- wrong-headed — wrong in judgment or opinion; misguided and stubborn; perverse.
- younger hand — (in piquet and similar card games) the dealer
- younghusband — Sir Francis Edward. 1863–1942, British explorer, mainly of N India and Tibet. He used military force to compel the Dalai Lama to sign (1904) a trade agreement with Britain