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12-letter words containing o, l, e, a, g

  • tattie-bogle — a scarecrow
  • teetotalling — of or relating to, advocating, or pledged to total abstinence from intoxicating drink.
  • telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
  • telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
  • teleological — of or relating to teleology, the philosophical doctrine that final causes, design, and purpose exist in nature.
  • theologaster — a person who pretends to be a theologian; a shallow or quack theologian
  • tollgatherer — a person who collects tolls, taxes, or other imposts.
  • 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.
  • un-ignorable — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
  • unapologetic — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
  • uncatalogued — not added to or detailed in a catalogue
  • uncoagulated — Obsolete. coagulated.
  • uncognizable — capable of being perceived or known.
  • uncollegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
  • unconcealing — not concealing or hiding anything; revealing
  • unecological — the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms.
  • unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
  • unglamorized — not glamorized
  • ungovernable — impossible to govern, rule, or restrain; uncontrollable.
  • unnegotiable — capable of being negotiated: a negotiable salary demand.
  • unvoyageable — not able to be sailed or otherwise journeyed over; untraversable; innavigable
  • urinogenital — genitourinary.
  • vaginicoline — living in a sheath
  • valley forge — a village in SE Pennsylvania: winter quarters of Washington's army 1777–78.
  • vasoligature — vasoligation.
  • vegetal pole — the relatively inactive part of an ovum opposite the animal pole, containing much yolk and little cytoplasm.
  • vegetational — all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: the vegetation of the Nile valley.
  • volcanogenic — created by a volcano; of volcanic origin.
  • vox angelica — an organ stop with a soft tone, often similar to the voix céleste
  • vso language — a type of language that has basic verb-subject-object word order, as Welsh, classical Arabic, or Tagalog.
  • wager of law — a form of trial in which the accused offered to make oath of his innocence, supported by the oaths of 11 of his neighbours declaring their belief in his statements
  • wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
  • walk on eggs — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
  • walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
  • wallcovering — a flexible sheet of sized paper, fabric, plastic, etc., usually laminated and printed with a repeat pattern, for pasting on a wall as decoration and protection.
  • waterfowling — the sport of shooting waterfowl
  • waterlogging — to cause (a boat, ship, etc.) to become uncontrollable as a result of flooding.
  • webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
  • wellingtonia — (UK) A large coniferous tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum, from California.
  • womb-leasing — bearing a child on behalf of a couple unable to have a child; surrogacy
  • woolgatherer — One who engages in woolgathering.
  • yellow pages — Network Information Service
  • zero tillage — no-tillage.
  • zielona gora — a city in W Poland.
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