12-letter words containing m, s, g
- grand master — the head of a military order of knighthood, a lodge, fraternal order, or the like.
- grandmasters — Plural form of grandmaster.
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- granny smith — a variety of crisp, green-skinned apple, for eating raw or for cooking.
- grass family — the large plant family Gramineae (or Poaceae), characterized by mostly herbaceous but sometimes woody plants with hollow and jointed stems, narrow sheathing leaves, petalless flowers borne in spikelets, and fruit in the form of seedlike grain, and including bamboo, sugar cane, numerous grasses, and cereal grains such as barley, corn, oats, rice, rye, and wheat.
- gravitropism — (biology, botany) a plant's ability to change its growth in response to gravity.
- 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.
- greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- greenmarkets — Plural form of greenmarket.
- gregarianism — the practice of living or clustering together in crowds or flocks
- grimsel pass — an Alpine pass in S Switzerland. 7159 feet (2184 meters) high.
- groom's cake — a fruit cake in layers of graduated size, served at a wedding.
- gross income — Accounting. total revenue received before any deductions or allowances, as for rent, cost of goods sold, taxes, etc.
- gross margin — the difference between total revenue and the cost of goods sold
- gruesomeness — The characteristic or quality of being gruesome.
- guesstimated — Simple past tense and past participle of guesstimate.
- guesstimates — Plural form of guesstimate.
- gulf of siam — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
- gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
- gymnosophist — one of a group of Jainist philosophers, existing from ancient times to c1000, characterized by refusal to wear clothes and the abandonment of caste marks; a member of the Digambara sect.
- gynecomastia — abnormal enlargement of the breast in a male.
- gynodioecism — the condition of having flowers that are only female in one example of a plant and flowers that have stamens and pistils in another example of a plant of the same species
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- haemogenesis — Haematopoiesis.
- haemorrhages — Plural form of haemorrhage.
- hamstringing — Present participle of hamstring.
- head massage — massage of the head
- hegemonistic — the policy or practice of hegemony to serve national interests.
- heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
- hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
- hematogenous — originating in the blood.
- hematologist — the study of the nature, function, and diseases of the blood and of blood-forming organs.
- hemstitching — Present participle of hemstitch.
- hergesheimer — Joseph, 1880–1954, U.S. novelist.
- heterogamous — Genetics. having unlike gametes, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to isogamous).
- hobgoblinism — a belief in hobgoblins
- holmes light — a canister, attached to a life buoy or float, containing calcium carbonate and calcium phosphide, which ignite spontaneously on contact with the water, emitting conspicuous fire and smoke.
- home posting — an appointment to a position within one's own country
- home staging — the professional service of preparing homes for sale in such a way as to appeal to potential buyers and generate higher selling prices: Realtors who encourage sellers to invest in home staging are reporting substantial monetary returns—for both themselves and their clients.
- homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- hominy grits — grits (def 1).
- homogenising — Present participle of homogenise.
- homozygosity — having identical pairs of genes for any given pair of hereditary characteristics.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- human rights — basic civil freedoms
- hummingbirds — Plural form of hummingbird.
- hydrargyrism — mercurialism.
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- hypogonadism — diminished hormonal or reproductive functioning in the testes or the ovaries.
- illegitimise — illegitimatize.