12-letter words containing g, r, o, u, s
- ground rules — Usually, ground rules. basic or governing principles of conduct in any situation or field of endeavor: the ground rules of press conferences.
- ground shark — any of various requiem sharks, especially of the genus Carcharhinus.
- ground sloth — any of various extinct large, edentate mammals from the Pleistocene Epoch of North and South America resembling modern sloths but living on the ground rather than in trees.
- ground staff — The people who are paid to maintain a sports ground are called the ground staff.
- ground state — the state of least energy of a particle, as an atom, or of a system of particles.
- groundbursts — Plural form of groundburst.
- groundedness — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
- groundlessly — In a groundless manner; without justification.
- groundsheets — Plural form of groundsheet.
- groundstroke — A stroke played after the ball has bounced, as opposed to a volley.
- groupuscules — Plural form of groupuscule.
- gruesomeness — The characteristic or quality of being gruesome.
- guelder rose — a shrub, Viburnum opulus, of the honeysuckle family, native to the Old World, having broad clusters of white flowers and scarlet fruit.
- guelder-rose — a shrub, Viburnum opulus, of the honeysuckle family, native to the Old World, having broad clusters of white flowers and scarlet fruit.
- guest worker — a foreign worker permitted to work in a country, especially in Western Europe, on a temporary basis.
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- gutturonasal — articulated in the back of the mouth and given resonance in the nasal cavity, as the sound represented by (ng) in (ring).
- gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- hazel grouse — a European woodland grouse, Tetrastes bonasia, somewhat resembling the North American ruffed grouse.
- heterogamous — Genetics. having unlike gametes, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to isogamous).
- heterogenous — having its source or origin outside the organism; having a foreign origin.
- heterogonous — Botany. of or relating to monoclinous flowers of two or more kinds occurring on different individuals of the same species, the kinds differing in the relative length of stamens and pistils (opposed to homogonous).
- heterogynous — having females of two different kinds, one sexual and the other abortive or neuter, as ants.
- heterologous — Biology. of different origin; pertaining to heterology.
- heterozygous — having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
- hillsborough — a town in W California.
- hippo regius — a seaport of ancient Numidia: St. Augustine was bishop here a.d. 395–430; the site of modern Annaba, in Algeria.
- horse guards — the mounted squadrons supplied by the Household Cavalry for ceremonial duties
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- hygrophilous — a plant that thrives in wet or very moist ground.
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- ingloriously — In an inglorious manner.
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- keratogenous — producing horn or a horny substance.
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- languorously — characterized by languor; languid.
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
- long residue — Long residue is the heaviest fraction from the crude oil distillation process.
- lower fungus — any of various fungi that do not produce well-organized fruiting bodies and primarily reproduce asexually, as the chytrids.
- lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
- lugubriosity — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
- lugubriously — In a lugubrious manner.
- luxury goods — expensive non-essential items
- macrophagous — (of an animal) feeding on relatively large particles of food
- manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.