12-letter words containing r, e, l, a, t, o
- for all time — forever, for eternity
- fore-topsail — a topsail set on a foremast on a ship.
- forecastable — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- forestalling — Present participle of forestall.
- forestaysail — a triangular sail set on a forestay; the innermost headsail of a vessel.
- foretopsails — Plural form of foretopsail.
- foretriangle — the triangular area formed by the deck, foremast, and headstay of a sailing vessel
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- fort laramie — a city in SE Wyoming.
- front loader — a washing machine with a door at the front which opens one side of the drum into which washing is placed
- front-loaded — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
- front-loader — a machine or appliance, as a washing machine, loaded and unloaded through an opening in the front (as distinguished from a top loader).
- frontal bone — a broad membrane bone of the skull, forming the forehead and the upper portion of each orbit.
- frontal lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the central sulcus.
- galactometer — a lactometer.
- galactophore — a galactophorous duct.
- galactorrhea — an abnormally abundant flow of milk in a lactating woman.
- 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.
- gastrodermal — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- gelatiniform — Having the form of gelatin.
- generational — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
- geocentrical — Alternative form of geocentric.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
- gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
- 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.
- governmental — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- gradeflation — grade inflation.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- grapple shot — a grapnellike projectile fired from a gun and used as a hold for the end of a line in rescue operations or in kedging.
- grossularite — a mineral, calcium aluminum garnet, Ca 3 Al 2 Si 3 O 12 , occurring in gray-white to pinkish crystals.
- 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.
- half brother — brother (def 2).
- half-brother — brother (def 2).
- halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
- halotolerant — (biology) Able to tolerate a high concentration of salt in its environment.
- halotrichite — a mineral, iron alum, isomorphous with pickeringite, occurring in the form of yellowish fibers.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
- heliotherapy — treatment of disease by means of sunlight.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood