12-letter words containing l, a, c, t
- gastric mill — a gizzard in decapod crustaceans, as lobsters, crabs, and shrimps, having an arrangement of teeth and small bones for grinding food and bristles for filtering small particles.
- geanticlines — Plural form of geanticline.
- gear cluster — an assembly of gears permanently attached to a shaft
- genethliacon — A birthday ode.
- genetic load — the extent to which a population deviates from the theoretically fittest genetic constitution.
- geniculating — Present participle of geniculate.
- geniculation — the state of being geniculate.
- gentle craft — the sport of angling or fishing (usually preceded by the).
- geobotanical — of or relating to geobotany
- geocentrical — Alternative form of geocentric.
- geodetically — pertaining to geodesy.
- geopolitical — the study or the application of the influence of political and economic geography on the politics, national power, foreign policy, etc., of a state.
- geotechnical — of or relating to practical applications of geological science in civil engineering, mining, etc.
- gesellschaft — an association of individuals for common goals, as for entertainment, intellectual, or cultural purposes or for business reasons.
- gesticulated — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- gesticulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gesticulate.
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- get anyplace — to have any success
- giant garlic — an Asian plant, Allium giganteum, of the amaryllis family, having a large, dense, round cluster of lilac-colored flowers, grown as an ornamental.
- gigantically — In a gigantic manner.
- glaciologist — glacialist.
- glacis plate — the frontal plate armour on a tank
- glass cutter — a tool for cutting glass.
- glaucomatous — Ophthalmology. abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye, most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains (open-angle glaucoma or chronic glaucoma) or by pressure of the iris against the lens, which traps the aqueous humor (angle-closure glaucoma or acute glaucoma)
- glossematics — a school of linguistic analysis developed by Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) in Copenhagen in the 1930s based on the study of the distribution of glossemes.
- glycerinated — to impregnate with glycerin.
- glycosylated — Simple past tense and past participle of glycosylate.
- go ballistic — of or relating to ballistics.
- gracefullest — Superlative form of graceful.
- gradualistic — Of or pertaining to gradualism.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- granulocytic — Of, or pertaining to, granulocytes.
- gravity cell — a cell containing two electrolytes that have different specific gravities.
- great circle — a circle on a spherical surface such that the plane containing the circle passes through the center of the sphere. Compare small circle.
- hadley chest — a style of chest made c1700 in Massachusetts or Connecticut, having front rails and panels carved in low relief with elaborate tulip and leaf patterns.
- half section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- half-section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- hallucinated — Simple past tense and past participle of hallucinate.
- hallucinates — to have hallucinations.
- hallucinator — One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.
- halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
- halotrichite — a mineral, iron alum, isomorphous with pickeringite, occurring in the form of yellowish fibers.
- hatchability — to bring forth (young) from the egg.
- head lettuce — any variety of the lettuce subspecies Lactuca sativa capitata, having leaves that grow in a dense rosette, especially iceberg lettuce and Boston lettuce.
- health check — a medical checkup
- health scare — a state of alarm caused by a revelation concerning public heath
- helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
- hello packet — (networking, communications) An OSPF packet sent periodically on each network interface, real or virtual, to discover and test connections to neighbours. Hello packets are multicast on physical networks capable of multicasting or broadcasting to enable dynamic router discovery. They include the parameters that routers connected to a common network must agree on. Hello packets increase network resilience by, e.g., allowing a router to establish a secondary connection when a primary connection fails.
- hematocolpos — (medicine) A medical condition in which the vagina fills with menstrual blood, often caused by the combination of menstruation with an imperforate hymen.