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12-letter words containing k, g, o

  • cuckoo's egg — The Cuckoo's Egg
  • dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
  • disk storage — space for storing information on a disk
  • docking keel — one of two keellike projections for bracing a hull of a ship against bilge blocks when the ship is in dry dock.
  • doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
  • duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
  • dusky grouse — blue grouse.
  • engine block — the metal casting containing the piston chambers of an internal combustion engine
  • epoch-making — An epoch-making change or declaration is considered to be extremely important because it is likely to have a significant effect on a particular period of time.
  • folk singing — the singing of folk songs, especially by a group of people.
  • foretokening — Indication in advance.
  • frankalmoign — a form of tenure by which religious bodies held lands, esp on condition of praying for the soul of the donor
  • frog sticker — Slang. a knife, especially one carried as a weapon.
  • frog-sticker — Slang. a knife, especially one carried as a weapon.
  • gammon steak — a thick cut of meat made from smoked or cured bacon or ham and often served with pineapple or fried egg
  • george crook — George, 1829–90, U.S. general in Indian wars.
  • georges bank — a bank extending generally NE from Nantucket: fishing grounds. 150 miles (240 km) long.
  • get knotted! — used as a response to express disapproval or rejection
  • get the hook — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
  • give or take — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
  • give suck to — to give (a baby or young animal) milk from the breast or udder
  • glatt kosher — prepared for eating according to the dietary laws followed by Hasidic Jews, which differ somewhat from those followed by other observers of kashruth: glatt kosher meat.
  • glockenspiel — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated steel bars mounted in a frame and struck with hammers, used especially in bands.
  • glossy snake — a nocturnal burrowing snake, Arizona elegans, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico, having smooth, glistening scales of tan with brown blotches.
  • go for broke — a simple past tense of break.
  • go walkabout — to wander through the bush
  • gobbledegook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
  • gobbledygook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
  • goldbricking — Present participle of goldbrick.
  • gondola back — a chair or couch back curving forward and downward to form arms.
  • good-looking — of good or attractive appearance; handsome or beautiful: a good-looking young man; a good-looking hat.
  • gopher snake — a bullsnake, Pituophis melanoleucus, of western North America, that invades burrows to prey on rodents.
  • gordian knot — pertaining to Gordius, ancient king of Phrygia, who tied a knot (the Gordian knot) that, according to prophecy, was to be undone only by the person who was to rule Asia, and that was cut, rather than untied, by Alexander the Great.
  • grass hockey — field hockey.
  • graving dock — an excavated shore dry dock for the repair and maintenance of ships.
  • grayson kirk — Grayson (Louis) 1903–1997, U.S. educator: president of Columbia University 1953–68.
  • greek yogurt — a thick, creamy, protein-rich yogurt made by removing most of the liquid whey, as by centrifuge or straining.
  • green monkey — a W African variety of a common guenon monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops, having greenish-brown fur and a dark face
  • groom's cake — a fruit cake in layers of graduated size, served at a wedding.
  • ground shark — any of various requiem sharks, especially of the genus Carcharhinus.
  • ground track — the path on the earth's surface below an aircraft, missile, rocket, or spacecraft.
  • groundkeeper — groundskeeper.
  • groundstroke — A stroke played after the ball has bounced, as opposed to a volley.
  • groundworker — One who works on the ground, as opposed to an aviator, etc.
  • guest worker — a foreign worker permitted to work in a country, especially in Western Europe, on a temporary basis.
  • hard-working — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
  • higashiosaka — a city on S Honshu, in Japan, W of Osaka.
  • hiking boots — stout, sturdy boots, suitable for hiking in
  • holding tank — a tank for the temporary storage of a substance.
  • home banking — a system whereby a person at home or in an office can use a computer with a modem to call up information from a bank or to transfer funds electronically
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