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12-letter words containing o, g, a, d

  • span loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
  • sponged ware — spongeware.
  • st. gotthard — a mountain range in S Switzerland; a part of the Alps; highest peak, 10,490 feet (3195 meters).
  • steady-going — steadfast; faithful; unchanging: steady-going service to the cause of justice.
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • studio glass — art glass produced by an independent artisan in the studio.
  • sugar-coated — Sugar-coated food is covered with a sweet substance made of sugar.
  • surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
  • the go-ahead — permission to proceed
  • thought-read — to read someone's mind or psychically know what someone's thoughts are
  • to advantage — any state, circumstance, opportunity, or means specially favorable to success, interest, or any desired end: the advantage of a good education.
  • tone dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein tones of differing pitch corresponding to the digits in the number called are electronically generated by manipulating pushbuttons (contrasted with pulse dialing).
  • tongue-blade — a broad, thin piece of wood used by doctors to hold down the patient's tongue during an examination of the mouth and throat.
  • tonnage deck — the upper deck in a vessel with only two decks.
  • touch and go — precarious situation
  • touch-and-go — risky; precarious: a touch-and-go descent down the mountain.
  • trading post — a store established in an unsettled or thinly settled region by a trader or trading company to obtain furs and local products in exchange for supplies, clothing, other goods, or for cash.
  • tragi-comedy — A tragi-comedy is a play or other written work that is both sad and amusing.
  • turbocharged — with additional power from turbine
  • uncatalogued — not added to or detailed in a catalogue
  • uncoagulated — Obsolete. coagulated.
  • unconjugated — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
  • undercoating — a coat or jacket worn under another.
  • unglamorized — not glamorized
  • unnegotiated — to deal or bargain with another or others, as in the preparation of a treaty or contract or in preliminaries to a business deal.
  • unoriginated — not originated
  • unoxygenated — not enriched with oxygen
  • unprogrammed — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
  • up and doing — busy; active
  • video gaming — the playing of video or computer games.
  • videographer — a person who makes films with a video camera.
  • wagon-headed — of the form of a round arch or a semicylinder, like the cover of a wagon when stretched over the bows, as a ceiling or roof.
  • wakeboarding — (sports) A water sport where a rider on a small board is towed by a motor boat, and attached by a cable.
  • wall molding — back molding.
  • washing soda — sodium carbonate (def 2).
  • waste ground — an empty piece of land
  • watchdogging — a dog kept to guard property.
  • window glass — glass used in windows
  • wing loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • wing-forward — either of the two forwards positioned at the outside of a scrum
  • wood carving — making sculptures from wood
  • wood vinegar — pyroligneous acid.
  • woodcarvings — Plural form of woodcarving.
  • wrong-headed — wrong in judgment or opinion; misguided and stubborn; perverse.
  • younger edda — either of two old Icelandic literary works, one a collection of poems on mythical and religious subjects (or) erroneously attributed to Saemund Sigfusson (c1055–1133), the other a collection of ancient Scandinavian myths and legends, rules and theories of versification, poems, etc. (or) compiled and written in part by Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241).
  • younger hand — (in piquet and similar card games) the dealer
  • younghusband — Sir Francis Edward. 1863–1942, British explorer, mainly of N India and Tibet. He used military force to compel the Dalai Lama to sign (1904) a trade agreement with Britain
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