12-letter words containing g, u, a, d
- firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
- fluoridating — Present participle of fluoridate.
- flying squad — a trained, mobile group of police officers, business executives, labor officials, or the like, capable of performing specialized tasks whenever or wherever sent, often for use in emergencies.
- fourth grade — school year: age 9-10
- fudge factor — any variable component added to an experiment, plan, or the like that can be manipulated to allow leeway for error.
- 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.
- fungicidally — in a fungicidal manner
- 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.
- gelande jump — jump made in downhill skiing
- gesticulated — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- 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.
- goddaughters — Plural form of goddaughter.
- 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
- 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 fault — the momentary, usually accidental, grounding of a conducting wire.
- ground glass — Optics. glass that has had its polished surface removed by fine grinding and that is used to diffuse light.
- 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 shark — any of various requiem sharks, especially of the genus Carcharhinus.
- 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.
- ground track — the path on the earth's surface below an aircraft, missile, rocket, or spacecraft.
- ground water — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
- grudge match — You can call a contest between two people or groups a grudge match when they dislike each other.
- guadalquivir — a river in S Spain, flowing W to the Gulf of Cádiz. 374 miles (602 km) long.
- guanethidine — a potent adrenergic neuron blocking agent, C 10 H 22 N 4 , used in the treatment of hypertension.
- guardianista — a reader of the Guardian newspaper, seen as being typically left-wing, liberal, and politically correct
- guardianship — the position and responsibilities of a guardian, especially toward a ward.
- guesstimated — Simple past tense and past participle of guesstimate.
- gulf of aden — a waterway in the Arabian sea between Yemen and Somalia and connecting with the Red Sea
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- gutturalized — pronounced with guttural coarticulation.