12-letter words containing g, r, o, u
- corn bunting — a heavily built European songbird, Emberiza calandra, with a streaked brown plumage: family Emberizidae (buntings)
- cornhuskings — Plural form of cornhusking.
- corrugations — the act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated.
- corruscating — Present participle of corruscate.
- corticofugal — (of a nerve fiber) originating in and running from the cerebral cortex.
- couchsurfing — Couchsurfing is the practice of sleeping at the houses of several different people for a period of time without paying.
- counteragent — a person or thing that counteracts
- counterargue — to argue against something
- counterimage — a corresponding image
- counterlight — a light opposite something, such as a painting, that negatively affects the appearance of that object
- countersigns — Plural form of countersign.
- counterweigh — counterbalance
- courageously — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
- court ruling — a decision made by a court
- cover ground — to move or traverse a certain distance
- crop dusting — Crop dusting is the spreading of pesticides on crops, usually from an aircraft.
- crop-dusting — the spraying of powdered fungicides or insecticides on crops, usually from an airplane.
- crosscutting — a transverse cut or course.
- crowdfunding — Crowdfunding is when a large number of people each give an amount of money to pay for a project, especially by using a website to collect the money.
- cryoglobulin — an abnormal immunoglobulin, present in the blood in certain diseases, that precipitates below about 10°C, obstructing small blood vessels in the fingers and toes
- cryosurgical — of or relating to cryosurgery
- cryptogamous — Of or pertaining to the cryptogams.
- cryptozygous — having the skull broad and the face narrow.
- curling iron — A curling iron is a metal device, resembling scissors, that you heat and use to form curls in your hair.
- curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- currycombing — Present participle of currycomb.
- cut up rough — to become angry or bad-tempered
- cutting room — The cutting room in a film production company is the place where the film is edited.
- cycling tour — a holiday involving a tour of an area or region by bicycle
- daguerrotype — Misspelling of daguerreotype.
- deregulation — Deregulation is the removal of controls and restrictions in a particular area of business or trade.
- deregulatory — Of or pertaining to deregulation.
- diégo-suarez — a seaport on N Madagascar.
- discongruity — incongruity.
- discouraging — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- dishonouring — Present participle of dishonour.
- dole bludger — a person who collects unemployment benefits but makes no serious effort to get work.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- douglas hurd — a third-class university degree
- downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
- draughtboard — checkerboard (def 1).
- draughtproof — That prevents the access of draughts.
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- drug holiday — a brief period during which a patient stops taking a prescribed medication, especially an antidepressant, to recover some normal functions, reduce side effects, or maintain sensitivity to the drug.
- dry mounting — the technique of fastening a print, photograph, or the like to a board by using a heated thermoplastic tissue as an adhesive.
- dry tortugas — a group of eight coral islands at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico: part of Florida
- dusky grouse — blue grouse.
- earth tongue — any of a group of fungi of the phylum Ascomycota, characterized by a tongue-shaped fruiting body, found on decaying logs and damp soil.