12-letter words containing g, r, e
- intertillage — tillage between rows of crop plants.
- intertwining — Twist or twine together.
- intervaginal — Anatomy, Zoology. pertaining to or involving the vagina.
- interventing — Present participle of intervent.
- interviewing — Present participle of interview.
- intervillage — occurring between two or more villages
- interweaving — Present participle of interweave.
- interwinding — Present participle of interwind.
- interwishing — to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.
- interworking — to work or weave together; interweave.
- interwrought — having been interworked
- intransigent — refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible.
- introjecting — Present participle of introject.
- introverting — a shy person.
- inventorying — Present participle of inventory.
- invercargill — a city on S South Island, in New Zealand.
- invert sugar — a mixture of the dextrorotatory forms of glucose and fructose, formed naturally in fruits and produced artificially in syrups or fondants by treating cane sugar with acids.
- investigator — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- invigorative — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- irish bridge — a paved ford.
- irish gaelic — Irish (def 4).
- ironmonger's — a shop where articles for the house and garden such as tools, nails, and pans are sold
- irrefragable — not to be disputed or contested.
- irrefragably — In an irrefragable state or condition.
- irregardless — regardless.
- irregularity — the quality or state of being irregular.
- ivy geranium — a trailing geranium, Pelargonium peltatum, of southern Africa, having a fleshy stem that becomes woody with age, glossy, ivy-shaped leaves, and clusters of flowers ranging from white to deep rose in color.
- jaffa orange — a sweet, almost seedless variety of orange grown principally in Israel.
- jailbreaking — Present participle of jailbreak.
- jan gossaert — Jan [Flemish yahn] /Flemish yɑn/ (Show IPA), (Jan Gossaert or Gossart) 1478?–1533? Flemish painter.
- jaw-breaking — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
- jelenia gora — a city in SW Poland, a historic mining center.
- jeopardising — Present participle of jeopardise.
- jeopardizing — Present participle of jeopardize.
- jerry-rigged — jury-rig.
- jersey giant — one of a breed of large domestic chickens raised primarily for their meat, originally black but now with a white variety, developed in New Jersey by interbreeding Langshans and large Asiatic fowl.
- jitterbugged — Simple past tense and past participle of jitterbug.
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- john gilmore — (person) A noted Unix hacker who cofounded Usenet's anarchic alt.* newsgroup hierarchy with Brian Reid. He also worked on GDB. E-mail: John Gilmore <[email protected]>.
- jugular vein — vein that carries blood from head to heart
- jumping hare — springhare.
- jungle fever — a severe variety of malarial fever occurring in the East Indies and the tropics.
- keeping room — hall (def 11).
- kendal green — a coarse woolen cloth, green in color.
- keratogenous — producing horn or a horny substance.
- keraunograph — an instrument for recording thunderstorms by detecting the radio waves generated
- ketch-rigged — rigged in the manner of a ketch.
- ketone group — the characteristic group occurring in ketones that consists of the carbonyl group attached to two alkyl groups.
- kindergarden — (non-standard) misspelling of kindergarten.
- kindergarten — a school or class for young children between the ages of four and six years.