12-letter words containing n, e, r, d
- gangsterland — an area controlled by gangsters
- garand rifle — M-1.
- garde manger — a cool room used for storing foods and for preparing certain dishes, especially cold buffet dishes.
- garde-manger — a cool room used for storing foods and for preparing certain dishes, especially cold buffet dishes.
- garden cress — a peppergrass, Lepidium sativum, used as a salad vegetable.
- garden grove — a city in SW California.
- garden party — a party given out of doors in a garden or yard.
- garden snail — Zoology
- garden state — New Jersey (used as a nickname).
- gas cylinder — container for storing gas
- gay-friendly — welcoming to gay people
- gendarmeries — Plural form of gendarmerie.
- gender-blind — not discriminating on the basis of gender, or not making a distinction between the sexes
- gender-fluid — noting or relating to a person whose gender identity or gender expression is not fixed and shifts over time or depending on the situation.
- generic drug — medicine: not sold under brand name
- gerrymanders — Plural form of gerrymander.
- get round to — find time
- giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
- gingerbreads — Plural form of gingerbread.
- gingerbready — Resembling or characteristic of gingerbread.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
- gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
- glycerinated — to impregnate with glycerin.
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- go on record — to set down in writing or the like, as for the purpose of preserving evidence.
- go the round — to be circulated among a number of people: said of a story, rumor, etc.
- go-go dancer — an entertainer who performs popular dances on a stage or platform for the patrons of a discotheque or nightclub.
- golden aster — any North American, asterlike, composite plant of the genus Chrysopsis, having bright, golden-yellow flower heads, as C. mariana, of the eastern U.S.
- golden horde — the army of Mongol Tartars that overran eastern Europe in the 13th century, established a khanate in Russia, and maintained suzerainty there until the 15th century.
- golden perch — a freshwater food fish, Plectroplites ambiguus, that inhabits inland waters of Australia.
- golden ratio — the ratio of two lengths, equal in value to (1 + √5)/2, and given by b/a = (b + a)/b; it is the reciprocal of the golden section and also equal to (1 + golden section)
- golden share — a share in a company that controls at least 51% of the voting rights, esp one retained by the UK government in some privatization issues
- golden stars — a plant, Bloomeria crocea, of the amaryllis family, native to southern California, having clusters of golden-orange, starlike flowers.
- golden syrup — treacle (def 2b).
- 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.
- golden years — the years that follow retirement from work
- golden-brown — of brown with a golden tinge
- good-natured — having or showing a pleasant, kindly disposition; amiable: a warm, good-natured person.
- gormandizers — gourmandise1 .
- gourmandizer — One who gourmandizes.
- gradeflation — grade inflation.
- 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.
- grand finale — the concluding portion of a performance or entertainment, as a musical show, rodeo, etc., usually spectacular and involving most or all of the prior participants.
- grand master — the head of a military order of knighthood, a lodge, fraternal order, or the like.
- grand siècle — the 17th century in French art and literature, esp the classical period of Louis XIV
- grand vizier — the chief officer of state of various Muslim countries, as in the former Ottoman Empire.
- grandaughter — Alternative spelling of granddaughter.
- granddaddies — Plural form of granddaddy.
- grande-terre — two islands (Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre) separated by a narrow channel in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies: together with five dependencies they form an overseas department of France. 687 sq. mi. (1179 sq. km). Capital: Basse-Terre.