12-letter words containing o, d, n, t, g, e
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- easting down — the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.
- editing room — a room in which a film or television programme is prepared by selecting, rearranging, or rejecting previously filmed material
- edmond genet — Edmond Charles Edouard [ed-mawn sharl ey-dwar] /ɛdˈmɔ̃ ʃarl eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), ("Citizen Genêt") 1763–1834, French minister to the U.S. in 1793.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- engaged tone — telephone
- folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
- ganglionated — gangliate.
- genetic code — the biochemical instructions that translate the genetic information present as a linear sequence of nucleotide triplets in messenger RNA into the correct linear sequence of amino acids for the synthesis of a particular peptide chain or protein. Compare codon, translation (def 9).
- genetic load — the extent to which a population deviates from the theoretically fittest genetic constitution.
- get involved — play a part
- get knotted! — used as a response to express disapproval or rejection
- get round to — find time
- giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
- glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
- go the round — to be circulated among a number of people: said of a story, rumor, etc.
- god's plenty — an abundant or overabundant quantity.
- gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- 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 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 stars — a plant, Bloomeria crocea, of the amaryllis family, native to southern California, having clusters of golden-orange, starlike flowers.
- golden state — California (used as a nickname).
- 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.
- good-natured — having or showing a pleasant, kindly disposition; amiable: a warm, good-natured person.
- gradeflation — grade inflation.
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- granodiorite — a coarse-grained acid igneous rock containing almost twice as much plagioclase as orthoclase: intermediate in composition between granite and diorite
- ground alert — the state of waiting for orders in or near combat airplanes ready to take to the air at once.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- ground state — the state of least energy of a particle, as an atom, or of a system of particles.
- ground water — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
- groundsheets — Plural form of groundsheet.
- groundstroke — A stroke played after the ball has bounced, as opposed to a volley.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- heterodyning — Present participle of heterodyne.
- 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.
- hydrogenated — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
- hydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hydrogenate.
- in good time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- in regard to — to look upon or think of with a particular feeling: to regard a person with favor.
- interrogated — to ask questions of (a person), sometimes to seek answers or information that the person questioned considers personal or secret.
- kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
- leading note — the seventh degree of a diatonic scale; subtonic.
- leading tone — the seventh degree of a diatonic scale; subtonic.
- long-awaited — A long-awaited event or thing is one that someone has been waiting for for a long time.
- long-sighted — farsighted; hypermetropic.
- long-stemmed — having a long stem or stems: long-stemmed roses.
- long-tongued — talking too much or too openly, especially of private or confidential matters; chattering; gossipy.