12-letter words containing g, o, l, i
- urinogenital — genitourinary.
- urobilinogen — a colourless substance produced by bacterial degradation of the bile pigment bilirubin in the intestine and which produces urobilin when oxidized
- vaginicoline — living in a sheath
- vaginicolous — living in a sheath
- vainglorious — filled with or given to vainglory: a vainglorious actor.
- vasoligation — ligation of the vas deferens.
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- vegetational — all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: the vegetation of the Nile valley.
- velo binding — a technique for binding books or documents that uses a narrow plastic strip along the length of the front and back binding edges and plastic pegs to attach the strips through holes punched in the pages.
- vexillologic — of or relating to vexillology
- vigintillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 63 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 120 zeros.
- vital organs — organs in the body that are essential to life
- vitellogenic — producing or stimulating the formation of yolk
- vitiliginous — a skin disorder characterized by smooth, white patches on various parts of the body, caused by the loss of the natural pigment.
- volcanogenic — created by a volcano; of volcanic origin.
- volcanologic — relating to vulcanology
- vox angelica — an organ stop with a soft tone, often similar to the voix céleste
- vulvovaginal — relating to the external female genitals
- wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
- walking boot — a lightweight rigid knee-length boot with a reinforced sole and straps that fasten around the leg, used for support after a sprain or fracture
- walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
- walking tour — a tour on which you walk rather than using transport
- wall molding — back molding.
- wallcovering — a flexible sheet of sized paper, fabric, plastic, etc., usually laminated and printed with a repeat pattern, for pasting on a wall as decoration and protection.
- waterfowling — the sport of shooting waterfowl
- waterlogging — to cause (a boat, ship, etc.) to become uncontrollable as a result of flooding.
- webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
- well logging — the process or technique of recording a well log.
- wellingtonia — (UK) A large coniferous tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum, from California.
- whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
- wigglesworth — Michael, 1631–1705, U.S. theologian and author, born in England.
- window glass — glass used in windows
- window ledge — outdoors: bottom edge of a window
- wing formula — a numerical representation of the relative lengths of the primary feathers of a bird's wing, used in identifying similar species, as flycatchers.
- wing loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- withholdings — Plural form of withholding.
- wolf herring — a voracious clupeoid fish, Chirocentrus dorab, inhabiting the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans.
- womb-leasing — bearing a child on behalf of a couple unable to have a child; surrogacy
- wood's light — ultraviolet light filtered through glass containing nickel oxide, used in detecting forgeries, in detecting microbes in hair, etc.
- working girl — Older Use: Often Offensive. a woman who works.
- working rail — fly rail (def 2).
- yalong jiang — a river in central and S China, flowing S to the Yangtze River. 800 miles (1287 km) long.
- yellow light — a yellow traffic light, usually preceding a signal halting traffic in a particular direction.
- yogic flying — a phenomenon of Transcendental Meditation in which the meditator jumps into the air while in the lotus position
- zero tillage — no-tillage.
- zhang zuolin — Chang Tso-lin.
- zielona gora — a city in W Poland.
- zilog z80000 — (processor) A later version of the Zilog Z8000, expanded to 32 bits internally and with a 6-stage pipeline.
- 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.
- zoologically — In a zoologic manner.