12-letter words containing g, o, n, c
- high concept — a simple and often striking idea or premise, as of a story or film, that lends itself to easy promotion and marketing.
- high country — a mountainous area below the timberline; a forested mountain area.
- high-context — preferring to communicate in person, rather than by electronic methods such as email
- high-scoring — (of a football etc match) in which a lot of goals are scored
- home cooking — home-made food
- honeycombing — Present participle of honeycomb.
- horse racing — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- hydrocooling — the process or technique of arresting the ripening of fruits and vegetables after harvesting by immersion in ice water.
- hysterogenic — inducing hysteria.
- iconographic — of or relating to iconography.
- iconological — Of or pertaining to iconology.
- imogene coca — Imogene, 1908–2001, U.S. comic actress.
- in charge of — having responsibility for
- in good nick — in good condition
- in-congruent — not congruent.
- incoagulable — of a nature that cannot be coagulated
- incogitative — Not cogitative; lacking the power of thought.
- incognisance — Alternative spelling of incognizance.
- incognizable — Not cognizable; incapable of being recognised.
- incognizance — Failure to cognize, apprehend, or notice.
- income group — a group in a given population having incomes within a certain range
- incompassing — Present participle of incompass.
- inconcluding — (obsolete) Inferring no consequence.
- incongruence — not congruent.
- incongruency — Incongruence.
- inconsisting — (obsolete) inconsistent.
- incontiguous — not continuous; unconnected; discrete
- incorrigible — not corrigible; bad beyond correction or reform: incorrigible behavior; an incorrigible liar.
- incorrigibly — not corrigible; bad beyond correction or reform: incorrigible behavior; an incorrigible liar.
- infographics — Plural form of infographic.
- inosculating — Present participle of inosculate.
- intercollege — intercollegiate.
- interlocking — to fit into each other, as parts of machinery, so that all action is synchronized.
- intoxicating — Archaic. intoxicated.
- introjecting — Present participle of introject.
- ion exchange — the process of reciprocal transfer of ions between a solution and a resin or other suitable solid.
- isoantigenic — relating to an isoantigen or isoantigens
- jacobinizing — Present participle of jacobinize.
- jickajogging — the act of moving in a jogging or rolling motion
- king's color — a white ceremonial ensign with a royal cipher, flown on special occasions by the British Royal Navy.
- king's crown — a tropical American shrub, Justicia carnea, of the acanthus family, bearing clusters of tubular reddish flowers.
- king's scout — (in Great Britain) a boy scout who has achieved the highest level of scouting: similar to the U.S. eagle scout.
- kingdom come — the next world; the hereafter; heaven.
- laryngectomy — excision of part or all of the larynx.
- laryngoscope — a rigid or flexible endoscope passed through the mouth and equipped with a source of light and magnification, for examining and performing local diagnostic and surgical procedures on the larynx.
- laryngoscopy — an examination by means of a laryngoscope.
- light cannon — a particularly powerful torch, spotlight, or searchlight
- limnological — Of or pertaining to limnology, the study of freshwater bodies of water.
- linear logic — (theory) A logic invented by Girard in 1987 that can be used in proofs related to resource usage.