12-letter words containing g, u, n, c
- geniculation — the state of being geniculate.
- genuflecting — Present participle of genuflect.
- genuflection — an act of bending the knee or touching it to the ground in reverence or worship.
- geraniaceous — belonging to the Geraniaceae, the geranium family of plants.
- get in touch — make contact
- get stuck in — If you get stuck in, you do something with enthusiasm and determination.
- glaucescence — the state of having bluish green coloration
- glaucousness — Quality of being glaucous.
- glucogenesis — the production of glucose by the decomposition of glycogen or from any nonglucose precursor.
- glucoprotein — glycoprotein.
- gracefulness — The state of being graceful.
- graciousness — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- 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.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- granulocytic — Of, or pertaining to, granulocytes.
- grid current — the current that moves within the vacuum tube from the grid to the cathode.
- 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 force — a military force that operates on the ground
- ground track — the path on the earth's surface below an aircraft, missile, rocket, or spacecraft.
- gubernacular — relating to a gubernaculum
- gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
- guide center — a command to a marching formation to align itself behind a guide marching at the head of the formation.
- gum ammoniac — a brownish-yellow gum resin, having an acrid taste, occurring in tearlike fragments from a plant, Dorema ammoniacum, of western Asia: used in porcelain ceramics and in medicine as an expectorant and counterirritant.
- gun carriage — the structure on which a gun is mounted or moved and from which it is fired.
- gut instinct — an instinctive feeling, as opposed to an opinion or idea based on facts
- gut of canso — Canso (def 2).
- gut reaction — instinctive response
- gut-churning — nerve-wracking
- gutwrenching — Alternative spelling of gut-wrenching.
- gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
- hallucinogen — a substance that produces hallucinations.
- high country — a mountainous area below the timberline; a forested mountain area.
- hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
- hunger march — a procession of protest or demonstration by the unemployed
- hunting case — a watchcase with a hinged cover to protect the crystal.
- in-congruent — not congruent.
- incoagulable — of a nature that cannot be coagulated
- income group — a group in a given population having incomes within a certain range
- inconcluding — (obsolete) Inferring no consequence.
- incongruence — not congruent.
- incongruency — Incongruence.
- incontiguous — not continuous; unconnected; discrete
- induced drag — the drag force generated in the production of lift.
- indulgencies — indulgence.
- indulgencing — Present participle of indulgence.