12-letter words containing g, u, a, d
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- hand luggage — carry-on baggage
- hand-running — in unbroken succession; consecutively.
- head-hunting — a headhunting expedition: The men left the village to go on a headhunt.
- horse guards — the mounted squadrons supplied by the Household Cavalry for ceremonial duties
- induced drag — the drag force generated in the production of lift.
- ingurgitated — Simple past tense and past participle of ingurgitate.
- juan hidalgo — Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), c1600–85, Spanish composer and harpist.
- judgment day — the day of the Last Judgment; doomsday.
- judgmentally — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
- kim dae jung — 1925–2009, president of South Korea 1998–2003.
- kluge around — (jargon) To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a kluge. Compare workaround.
- langue d'oil — the Romance language of medieval northern France: developed into modern French.
- laser-guided — (of a missile, etc) guided with the use of a laser beam
- laue diagram — a diffraction pattern used to study crystal structure, consisting of symmetrically arranged spots obtained when a beam of x-rays, electrons, or neutrons is passed through a thin crystal and exposes a photographic plate.
- liquid glass — any of several clear, white, or greenish water-soluble compounds of formulas varying in ratio from Na 2 O⋅3.75SiO 2 to 2Na 2 O⋅SiO 2 : used chiefly in dyeing, printing, and fireproofing textiles and in the manufacture of paper products and cement.
- logodaedalus — a person who uses words with skill or cunning
- longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
- longitudinal — of or relating to longitude or length: longitudinal measurement.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- masquerading — a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes.
- mcleod gauge — a device for determining very low gas pressures by manometrically measuring the pressure of a sample after its compression to a known fraction of its original volume.
- middle guard — a defensive lineman positioned opposite the offensive center and between the defensive tackles, as in a three- or five-man line.
- miracle drug — wonder drug.
- modularizing — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- muddle along — If you muddle along, you live or exist without a proper plan or purpose in your life.
- multigravida — a pregnant woman who has been pregnant two or more times.
- naughty word — a word that is considered to be rude
- non-graduate — a person who has received a degree or diploma on completing a course of study, as in a university, college, or school.
- nonregulated — Alternative spelling of non-regulated.
- nulligravida — A female who has never been pregnant.
- oda nobunaga — 1534–82, Japanese general and feudal leader, who unified much of Japan under his control: assassinated
- old guardism — political conservatism.
- outgeneraled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- outstandings — Outstanding amounts; unpaid debts.
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- palace guard — the security force protecting a palace.
- plead guilty — defendant: declare guilt
- postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
- prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
- pseudography — writing that does not follow conventional spelling or usage
- pudding-face — a human face that is big and fat and resembles a pudding
- pudding-head — a stupid person
- quadragesima — the first Sunday in Lent.
- quadrangular — having four angles and four sides; having the shape of a quadrangle.
- quadraplegic — quadriplegic.
- quadriplegia — paralysis of all four limbs or of the entire body below the neck.
- quadriplegic — a person with quadriplegia.