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12-letter words containing o, c, a, r

  • geographical — of or relating to geography.
  • geometrician — a person skilled in geometry.
  • geostrategic — Of, pertaining to, or using geostrategy.
  • geraniaceous — belonging to the Geraniaceae, the geranium family of plants.
  • german ocean — an arm of the Atlantic between Great Britain and the European mainland. About 201,000 sq. mi. (520,600 sq. km); greatest depth, 1998 feet (610 meters).
  • gerontocracy — government by a council of elders.
  • gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
  • global reach — When people talk about the global reach of a company or industry, they mean its ability to have customers in many different parts of the world.
  • go-go dancer — an entertainer who performs popular dances on a stage or platform for the patrons of a discotheque or nightclub.
  • gonadotropic — pertaining to substances formed in the anterior pituitary gland that affect the activity of the ovary or testis.
  • gothic armor — white armor of the 15th century, marked especially by much fluting and ornamentation.
  • grace hopper — (person)   US Navy Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Hopper (1906-12-09 to 1992-01-01), née Grace Brewster Murray. Hopper is believed to have concieved the concept of the compiler with the A-0 in 1952. She also developed the first commercial high-level language, which eventually evolved into COBOL. She worked on the Mark I computer with Howard Aiken and with BINAC in 1949. She is credited with having coined the term "debug", and the adage "it is always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" (with various wordings), which has been the guiding principle in sysadmin decisions ever since. See also the entries debug and bug. Hopper is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. In 1994, the US Navy named a new ship, the guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper, after her.
  • grace period — a period of time after a payment becomes due, as of a loan or life-insurance premium, before one is subject to penalties or late charges or before the loan or policy is canceled.
  • graciousness — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
  • grade school — an elementary school that has its pupils grouped or classified into grades.
  • graeco-roman — of or having both Greek and Roman characteristics: the Greco-Roman influence.
  • gram calorie — calorie (def 1a). Abbreviation: g-cal.
  • graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
  • grand canyon — a gorge of the Colorado River in N Arizona. over 200 miles (320 km) long; 1 mile (1.6 km) deep.
  • 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.
  • granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
  • granulocytic — Of, or pertaining to, granulocytes.
  • graphophonic — a phonograph for recording and reproducing sounds on wax records.
  • grass hockey — field hockey.
  • gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
  • graving dock — an excavated shore dry dock for the repair and maintenance of ships.
  • green-collar — noting or pertaining to workers, jobs, or businesses that are involved in protecting the environment or solving environmental problems.
  • groom's cake — a fruit cake in layers of graduated size, served at a wedding.
  • ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
  • ground cedar — a ground pine, Lycopodium complanatum.
  • ground track — the path on the earth's surface below an aircraft, missile, rocket, or spacecraft.
  • gut reaction — instinctive response
  • gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
  • gynaecocracy — Alternative form of gynecocracy.
  • gyromagnetic — of or relating to the magnetic properties of a rotating charged particle.
  • haemorrhagic — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of hemorrhagic.
  • hagiocracies — Plural form of hagiocracy.
  • hagiographic — Of or pertaining to hagiography.
  • haircoloring — dye or tint for the hair.
  • half-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
  • hall process — a process in which aluminum is refined by electrolytic reduction of alumina fused with cryolite.
  • 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.
  • haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
  • haricot vert — green bean.
  • hark back to — recall: earlier era
  • harmonic law — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
  • harmonically — pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
  • harmonichord — a musical instrument resembling an upright piano intended to fuse the sound of a violin with the functionality of a piano, the tone therefore produced using friction rather than through striking
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