12-letter words containing l, o, n, g, u
- golden trout — a very colorful freshwater fish, Salmo aguabonita or Oncorhynchus aguabonita, of the salmon family, native to the Sierra Nevada, having a red and orange body and golden sides.
- 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.
- granulations — Plural form of granulation.
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- granulocytic — Of, or pertaining to, granulocytes.
- gratulations — a feeling of joy.
- griseofulvin — an antibiotic, C 17 H 17 ClO 6 , obtained from a species of Penicillium, used in the treatment of ringworm and other fungous infections of the skin.
- ground alert — the state of waiting for orders in or near combat airplanes ready to take to the air at once.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground cloth — groundsheet.
- ground color — Also called ground coat. a primary coat of paint; priming; base coat.
- ground fault — the momentary, usually accidental, grounding of a conducting wire.
- ground floor — the floor of a building at or nearest to ground level.
- ground glass — Optics. glass that has had its polished surface removed by fine grinding and that is used to diffuse light.
- ground level — ground state.
- ground plane — (in perspective drawing) the theoretical horizontal plane receding from the picture plane to the horizon, beginning at the level of the base line.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- ground rules — Usually, ground rules. basic or governing principles of conduct in any situation or field of endeavor: the ground rules of press conferences.
- ground sloth — any of various extinct large, edentate mammals from the Pleistocene Epoch of North and South America resembling modern sloths but living on the ground rather than in trees.
- groundlessly — In a groundless manner; without justification.
- guillotining — Present participle of guillotine.
- gulf of aden — a waterway in the Arabian sea between Yemen and Somalia and connecting with the Red Sea
- gulf of oman — a strait that ultimately links the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf
- gutturonasal — articulated in the back of the mouth and given resonance in the nasal cavity, as the sound represented by (ng) in (ring).
- hallucinogen — a substance that produces hallucinations.
- hologonidium — soredium.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- homologumena — the books in the New Testament generally held as authoritative and canonical by the early church.
- housing list — a list of people waiting to obtain council houses
- hugh loebner — (person) Dr. Hugh Gene Loebner, the instigator of the Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence. E-mail address: Hugh Loebner <[email protected]>.
- immunoglobin — (immunology, protein) Any protein that functions as an antibody.
- immunologist — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
- incoagulable — of a nature that cannot be coagulated
- inconcluding — (obsolete) Inferring no consequence.
- indigenously — originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often followed by to): the plants indigenous to Canada; the indigenous peoples of southern Africa.
- indologenous — producing or causing the production of indole.
- ingleborough — a mountain in N England, in North Yorkshire: potholes. Height: 723 m (2373 ft)
- ingloriously — In an inglorious manner.
- inosculating — Present participle of inosculate.
- juan hidalgo — Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), c1600–85, Spanish composer and harpist.
- jungle books — a series of jungle stories in two volumes (1894, 1895) by Rudyard Kipling.
- kluge around — (jargon) To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a kluge. Compare workaround.
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- langoustines — Plural form of langoustine.
- langue d'oil — the Romance language of medieval northern France: developed into modern French.
- languorously — characterized by languor; languid.
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- lodging turn — a period of work or duty, esp among railway workers, which involves sleeping away from home
- loganiaceous — belonging to the plant family Loganiaceae.