12-letter words containing g, r, u, d
- fudge factor — any variable component added to an experiment, plan, or the like that can be manipulated to allow leeway for error.
- full-figured — (of a woman) having an amply proportioned or heavy body.
- fund manager — A fund manager is someone whose job involves investing the money contained in a fund, for example, a mutual fund, on behalf of another person or organization.
- fund-raising — the act or process of raising funds, as for nonprofit organizations or for a political cause.
- gaillard cut — an artificial cutting in the Panama Canal Zone, NW of the city of Panama: excavated for the Panama Canal. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- garbage dump — rubbish tip, place where refuse is disposed of
- gateway drug — any mood-altering drug, as a stimulant or tranquilizer, that does not cause physical dependence but may lead to the use of addictive drugs, as heroin.
- gender-fluid — noting or relating to a person whose gender identity or gender expression is not fixed and shifts over time or depending on the situation.
- generic drug — medicine: not sold under brand name
- geopressured — subject to geostatic pressure.
- get round to — find time
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
- gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- go the round — to be circulated among a number of people: said of a story, rumor, etc.
- go to ground — hide, be reclusive
- goddaughters — Plural form of goddaughter.
- golden syrup — treacle (def 2b).
- golden trout — a very colorful freshwater fish, Salmo aguabonita or Oncorhynchus aguabonita, of the salmon family, native to the Sierra Nevada, having a red and orange body and golden sides.
- good-humored — having or showing a pleasant, amiable mood: a good-humored man; a good-humored remark.
- good-natured — having or showing a pleasant, kindly disposition; amiable: a warm, good-natured person.
- gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.
- gourmandizer — One who gourmandizes.
- gradualistic — Of or pertaining to gradualism.
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- grand coulee — a dry canyon in central Washington: cut by the Columbia River in the glacial period. 52 miles (84 km) long; over 400 feet (120 meters) deep.
- grand kabuki — kabuki (def 2).
- grand rounds — a formal hospital meeting at which physicians discuss interesting medical cases.
- grandaughter — Alternative spelling of granddaughter.
- great sunday — Easter Sunday.
- greater kudu — a spiral-horned antelope, Tragelaphus strepsiceros, which inhabits the bush of Africa
- grey gurnard — a species of scorpionfish, Eutriglia gurnardus
- grid circuit — that part of a circuit that contains the cathode and the grid of a vacuum tube.
- grid current — the current that moves within the vacuum tube from the grid to the cathode.
- ground alert — the state of waiting for orders in or near combat airplanes ready to take to the air at once.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground cedar — a ground pine, Lycopodium complanatum.
- ground cloth — groundsheet.
- ground color — Also called ground coat. a primary coat of paint; priming; base coat.
- ground cover — the herbaceous plants and low shrubs in a forest, considered as a whole.
- ground fault — the momentary, usually accidental, grounding of a conducting wire.
- ground floor — the floor of a building at or nearest to ground level.
- ground force — a military force that operates on the ground
- ground frost — the condition resulting from a temperature reading of 0°C or below on a thermometer in contact with a grass surface
- ground glass — Optics. glass that has had its polished surface removed by fine grinding and that is used to diffuse light.
- ground level — ground state.
- ground plane — (in perspective drawing) the theoretical horizontal plane receding from the picture plane to the horizon, beginning at the level of the base line.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- ground robin — towhee.