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12-letter words containing g, s, u

  • guesstimated — Simple past tense and past participle of guesstimate.
  • guesstimates — Plural form of guesstimate.
  • guest worker — a foreign worker permitted to work in a country, especially in Western Europe, on a temporary basis.
  • guide fossil — index fossil.
  • guilefulness — The quality of being guileful; cunning or deceit.
  • guinea grass — a grass, Panicum maximum, native to Africa, used for forage in warm regions of North and South America.
  • gulf of siam — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
  • gulf of suez — the NW arm of the Red Sea: linked with the Mediterranean by the Suez Canal
  • gullibleness — Gullibility.
  • gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
  • gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
  • gustav hertz — Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1887–1975, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1925.
  • gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
  • gustavus iii — 1746–92, king of Sweden 1771–92: economic and legal reformer.
  • gut instinct — an instinctive feeling, as opposed to an opinion or idea based on facts
  • gut of canso — Canso (def 2).
  • gutter press — press specializing in sensationalism
  • guttersnipes — Plural form of guttersnipe.
  • gutturalness — The quality of being guttural.
  • 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.
  • heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
  • hematogenous — originating in the blood.
  • hepatogenous — originating in the liver
  • 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.
  • higgs bugson — (humour)   A hypothetical bug predicted to exist based on a small number of possibly related event log entries and vague anecdotal user reports. The Higgs Bugson is difficult to reproduce because you don't really know if it's there, and if it is there what is causing it. To find one you will need a Large Hadron Debugger.
  • high hurdles — a race in which runners leap over hurdles 42 inches (107 cm) high.
  • 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.
  • hippophagous — eating horse meat
  • honey fungus — an edible basidiomycetous fungus, Armillaria mellea, having a yellow-spotted cap and wrinkled stems, parasitic on the roots of woody plants, which it may kill by root rot. It spreads by thin black underground strands
  • horse guards — the mounted squadrons supplied by the Household Cavalry for ceremonial duties
  • house league — a sports league in which the members of all teams belong to the same organization, school, or company
  • house lights — lights of a residential building
  • house of god — Also called house of worship, house of prayer. a building devoted to religious worship; a church, synagogue, temple, chapel, etc.
  • housekeeping — the maintenance of a house or domestic establishment.
  • housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • housing list — a list of people waiting to obtain council houses
  • hubertusburg — a castle in E Germany, E of Leipzig: treaty ending the Seven Years' War signed here 1763.
  • hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
  • human rights — basic civil freedoms
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