12-letter words containing o, g, d
- gable window — a window in or under a gable.
- galactosides — Plural form of galactoside.
- gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
- ganglionated — gangliate.
- gangliosides — Plural form of ganglioside.
- garden grove — a city in SW California.
- gas-operated — (of a firearm) using some of the exhaust gases to operate the action.
- gastrodermal — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- gastrodermis — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- 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.
- geodetically — pertaining to geodesy.
- geohydrology — hydrogeology.
- geopressured — subject to geostatic pressure.
- george dewey — George, 1837–1917, U.S. admiral: defeated Spanish fleet in Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.
- gersdorffite — a mineral, sulfide-arsenide of nickel, NiAsS, occurring in metallic, light-gray cubes.
- get ahead of — to outdo or excel
- get ahold of — to get in touch with
- 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.
- gideon bible — a Bible purchased by members of a Christian organization (Gideons International) and placed in a hotel room, hospital ward, etc
- gladiatorial — of or relating to gladiators or to their combats.
- gladiatorian — (dated) Of or relating to gladiators or to combat in general; gladiatorial.
- gladsomeness — (archaic) gladness.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- global index — (filename extension) (gid) The filename extension of a Windows 95 "global index" file. .gid files are created by the help browser internal to Windows 95 (also available for other Windows versions) for WinHelp files (hlp), as well as for storing user preferences, such as window position.
- glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
- glycerolipid — (organic chemistry) Any lipid based on glycerol.
- glycopeptide — any of a group of complex proteins, as mucin, containing a carbohydrate combined with a simple protein.
- glycosidases — Plural form of glycosidase.
- glycosylated — Simple past tense and past participle of glycosylate.
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- go down with — If you go down with an illness or a disease, you catch it.
- go hard with — to cause pain or difficulty to (someone)
- go on record — to set down in writing or the like, as for the purpose of preserving evidence.
- go overboard — over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water: to fall overboard.
- go the round — to be circulated among a number of people: said of a story, rumor, etc.
- go to ground — hide, be reclusive
- go-away bird — a common name for a grey-plumaged lourie of the genus Corythaixoides
- go-go dancer — an entertainer who performs popular dances on a stage or platform for the patrons of a discotheque or nightclub.
- gobbledegook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
- gobbledygook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
- gobind singh — 1666–1708, tenth and last guru of the Sikhs (1675–1708): assassinated
- god's plenty — an abundant or overabundant quantity.
- god-botherer — an over-zealous Christian
- goddaughters — Plural form of goddaughter.
- godwin's law — (humour) "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely recognised codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
- godzillagram — (networking) /god-zil'*-gram/ (From Japan's national hero and datagram) 1. A network packet that in theory is a broadcast to every machine in the universe. The typical case is an IP datagram whose destination IP address is [255.255.255.255]. Fortunately, few gateways are foolish enough to attempt to implement this case! 2. A network packet of maximum size. An IP Godzillagram has 65,536 octets. Compare super source quench.