12-letter words containing i, r, e, s, t
- garnishments — Plural form of garnishment.
- gastarbeiter — guest worker.
- gastrectasia — (medicine) dilation of the stomach.
- gastrocnemii — Plural form of gastrocnemius.
- gastrodermis — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- gastronomies — Plural form of gastronomy.
- gastrotomies — Plural form of gastrotomy.
- gatecrashing — Present participle of gatecrash.
- gazetteerish — in the style of a gazetteer
- generalities — Plural form of generality.
- generativist — a person who follows or promotes the theories of generative grammar.
- generatrices — Plural form of generatrix.
- generosities — Plural form of generosity.
- geochemistry — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
- geostrategic — Of, pertaining to, or using geostrategy.
- german sixth — (in musical harmony) an augmented sixth chord having a major third and a perfect fifth between the root and the augmented sixth
- germinations — Plural form of germination.
- gersdorffite — a mineral, sulfide-arsenide of nickel, NiAsS, occurring in metallic, light-gray cubes.
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- get to grips — to deal with (a problem or subject)
- ghost writer — a person who writes one or numerous speeches, books, articles, etc., for another person who is named as or presumed to be the author.
- ghostwriters — Plural form of ghostwriter.
- ghostwritten — Written by a ghostwriter.
- gila monster — a large, venomous lizard, Heloderma suspectum, of the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico, covered with beadlike scales of yellow, orange, and black.
- give rise to — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- glomerulitis — inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney.
- goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- grammaticise — to make grammatical
- grease paint — an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
- great plains — a semiarid region E of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada.
- great schism — a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378–1417, over papal succession, during which there were two, or sometimes three, claimants to the papal office.
- great spirit — the chief deity in the religion of many North American Indian tribes.
- gross weight — total weight without deduction for tare, tret, or waste.
- grossularite — a mineral, calcium aluminum garnet, Ca 3 Al 2 Si 3 O 12 , occurring in gray-white to pinkish crystals.
- grotesquerie — Grotesque quality or grotesque things collectively.
- guttersnipes — Plural form of guttersnipe.
- hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- harris tweed — a hand-woven tweed made only by residents in the Outer Hebrides from locally dyed and spun wool
- harvest mite — chigger (def 1).
- harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
- harvest time — season when crops are gathered
- headmistress — a woman in charge of a private school.
- hearing test — a test to establish whether someone's hearing is normal or whether they have suffered some degree of hearing loss
- heartstrings — (obsolete, anatomy) The tendons once thought to brace the heart. (15th-19th c.).
- heliotropism — heliotropic tendency or growth.
- hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
- hemarthrosis — (pathology) bleeding in the joints.
- hemihydrates — Plural form of hemihydrate.
- hemiparasite — A plant that obtains or may obtain part of its food by parasitism, e.g., mistletoe, which also photosynthesizes.