12-letter words containing o, t, a, l
- gaff-topsail — Also called fore-and-aft topsail. a jib-headed fore-and-aft sail set above a gaff.
- galactagogue — A food or drug that promotes or increases the flow of a mother’s milk.
- galactometer — a lactometer.
- galactophore — a galactophorous duct.
- galactorrhea — an abnormally abundant flow of milk in a lactating woman.
- galactoscope — a lactoscope.
- galactosemia — an inherited disorder characterized by the inability to metabolize galactose and requiring a galactose-free diet to avoid consequent mental retardation and eye, spleen, and liver abnormalities.
- galactosides — Plural form of galactoside.
- galanty show — pantomime shadow play
- gallows tree — a gallows.
- galvanometer — an instrument for detecting the existence of small electric currents and determining their strength.
- galvanometry — the method or process of determining the strength of electric currents.
- galvanotaxis — movement of an organism or any of its parts in a particular direction in response to an electric current; electrotaxis.
- gamopetalous — having the petals united.
- gangliectomy — (medicine) Excision of a ganglion; surgical removal of a mass of tissue.
- ganglionated — gangliate.
- gastrodermal — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- gastrologist — the study of the structure, functions, and diseases of the stomach.
- gastroplasty — any plastic surgery on the stomach.
- gastrulation — the formation of a gastrula.
- gelatigenous — (archaic) Producing or yielding gelatin.
- gelatination — Conversion into gelatin or jelly-like substance.
- gelatiniform — Having the form of gelatin.
- generational — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
- genethliacon — A birthday ode.
- genetic load — the extent to which a population deviates from the theoretically fittest genetic constitution.
- geniculation — the state of being geniculate.
- geobotanical — of or relating to geobotany
- geocentrical — Alternative form of geocentric.
- geodetically — pertaining to geodesy.
- geopolitical — the study or the application of the influence of political and economic geography on the politics, national power, foreign policy, etc., of a state.
- geopotential — the difference between the potential energy of a mass at a given altitude and the potential energy of an identical mass at sea level, equivalent to the energy required to move the mass from sea level to the given altitude.
- geotechnical — of or relating to practical applications of geological science in civil engineering, mining, etc.
- geothermally — By geothermal means, especially by means of geothermal energy.
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- get ahold of — to get in touch with
- giant slalom — a slalom race in which the course has more gates and is longer and steeper than that in a regular slalom.
- gila monster — a large, venomous lizard, Heloderma suspectum, of the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico, covered with beadlike scales of yellow, orange, and black.
- glaciologist — glacialist.
- gladiatorial — of or relating to gladiators or to their combats.
- gladiatorian — (dated) Of or relating to gladiators or to combat in general; gladiatorial.
- glatt kosher — prepared for eating according to the dietary laws followed by Hasidic Jews, which differ somewhat from those followed by other observers of kashruth: glatt kosher meat.
- glaucomatous — Ophthalmology. abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye, most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains (open-angle glaucoma or chronic glaucoma) or by pressure of the iris against the lens, which traps the aqueous humor (angle-closure glaucoma or acute glaucoma)
- glioblastoma — A highly invasive glioma in the brain.
- gloria patri — the short hymn “Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.”.
- glossematics — a school of linguistic analysis developed by Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) in Copenhagen in the 1930s based on the study of the distribution of glossemes.
- glossolalist — One who exhibits glossolalia; one who speaks in tongues.
- glottal stop — a plosive consonant whose occlusion and release are accomplished chiefly at the glottis, as in the Scottish articulation of the t- sound of little, bottle, etc.
- glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
- glycosylated — Simple past tense and past participle of glycosylate.