12-letter words containing s, a, g, m
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- granny smith — a variety of crisp, green-skinned apple, for eating raw or for cooking.
- grass family — the large plant family Gramineae (or Poaceae), characterized by mostly herbaceous but sometimes woody plants with hollow and jointed stems, narrow sheathing leaves, petalless flowers borne in spikelets, and fruit in the form of seedlike grain, and including bamboo, sugar cane, numerous grasses, and cereal grains such as barley, corn, oats, rice, rye, and wheat.
- gravitropism — (biology, botany) a plant's ability to change its growth in response to gravity.
- great schism — a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378–1417, over papal succession, during which there were two, or sometimes three, claimants to the papal office.
- greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- greenmarkets — Plural form of greenmarket.
- gregarianism — the practice of living or clustering together in crowds or flocks
- grimsel pass — an Alpine pass in S Switzerland. 7159 feet (2184 meters) high.
- groom's cake — a fruit cake in layers of graduated size, served at a wedding.
- gross margin — the difference between total revenue and the cost of goods sold
- guesstimated — Simple past tense and past participle of guesstimate.
- guesstimates — Plural form of guesstimate.
- gulf of siam — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
- gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
- gynecomastia — abnormal enlargement of the breast in a male.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- haemogenesis — Haematopoiesis.
- haemorrhages — Plural form of haemorrhage.
- hamstringing — Present participle of hamstring.
- head massage — massage of the head
- heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
- hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
- hematogenous — originating in the blood.
- hematologist — the study of the nature, function, and diseases of the blood and of blood-forming organs.
- heterogamous — Genetics. having unlike gametes, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to isogamous).
- home staging — the professional service of preparing homes for sale in such a way as to appeal to potential buyers and generate higher selling prices: Realtors who encourage sellers to invest in home staging are reporting substantial monetary returns—for both themselves and their clients.
- homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- human rights — basic civil freedoms
- hydrargyrism — mercurialism.
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- hypogonadism — diminished hormonal or reproductive functioning in the testes or the ovaries.
- immigrations — Plural form of immigration.
- imparadising — Present participle of imparadise.
- impassioning — Present participle of impassion.
- incompassing — Present participle of incompass.
- inseminating — Present participle of inseminate.
- jumpstarting — Present participle of jumpstart.
- kashmir goat — one of a long-haired breed of goat raised in Tibet and the higher elevations of China, the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, and Turkey for its meat, milk, and cashmere wool.
- king-of-arms — a title of certain of the principal heralds of England and certain other kingdoms empowered by their sovereigns to grant armorial bearings.
- lammergeiers — Plural form of lammergeier.
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- laryngospasm — An uncontrolled, spasmodic closure of the larynx.
- legal system — judicial structures and processes: law
- limacologist — a person who specialises in the study of slugs
- lip-smacking — tasty, mouth-watering
- long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
- longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.