12-letter words containing s, c, i
- gnotobiotics — the study of organisms living in germ-free conditions or when inoculated with known microorganisms
- go ballistic — of or relating to ballistics.
- go to pieces — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- good offices — Someone's good offices are the help that they give to other people who are trying to achieve something.
- gospel choir — a choir performing gospel music
- gospel music — a now popularized form of impassioned rhythmic spiritual music rooted in the solo and responsive church singing of rural blacks in the American South, central to the development of rhythm and blues and of soul music.
- graciousness — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- gradualistic — Of or pertaining to gradualism.
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- grammaticise — to make grammatical
- grammaticism — a point or principle of grammar.
- grand siècle — the 17th century in French art and literature, esp the classical period of Louis XIV
- graphic arts — any of the fine or applied visual arts based on drawing or the use of line, as opposed to colour or relief, on a plane surface, esp illustration and printmaking of all kinds
- 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.
- greenfinches — Plural form of greenfinch.
- griddlecakes — Plural form of griddlecake.
- gross income — Accounting. total revenue received before any deductions or allowances, as for rent, cost of goods sold, taxes, etc.
- gut instinct — an instinctive feeling, as opposed to an opinion or idea based on facts
- gynecologist — a physician specializing in gynecology. Abbreviation: GYN, gyn.
- gynecomastia — abnormal enlargement of the breast in a male.
- gynodioecism — the condition of having flowers that are only female in one example of a plant and flowers that have stamens and pistils in another example of a plant of the same species
- hack to bits — to damage severely
- hagiocracies — Plural form of hagiocracy.
- half section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- half-section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- hallucinates — to have hallucinations.
- hallucinosis — a mental state characterized by repeated hallucinations.
- handicappeds — Plural form of handicapped.
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- handstitched — Stitched by hand.
- hard science — any of the natural or physical sciences, as chemistry, biology, physics, or astronomy, in which aspects of the universe are investigated by means of hypotheses and experiments.
- harpsichords — Plural form of harpsichord.
- harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
- hash cookies — biscuits containing cannabis
- hegemonistic — the policy or practice of hegemony to serve national interests.
- helical scan — denoting a recording technique used with video tapes in which the recorded tracks on the tape are segments of a helix
- helichrysums — Plural form of helichrysum.
- helicographs — Plural form of helicograph.
- heliospheric — Of or pertaining to the heliosphere.
- hellaciously — In a hellacious manner.
- hemerocallis — the genus comprising the day lilies.
- hemiscotosis — hemianopsia.
- hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- hemophiliacs — Plural form of hemophiliac.
- hemstitching — Present participle of hemstitch.
- henotheistic — Relating to henotheism.
- hermeneutics — the science of interpretation, especially of the Scriptures.
- heroic verse — a form of verse adapted to the treatment of heroic or exalted themes: in classical poetry, dactylic hexameter; in English and German, iambic pentameter; and in French, the Alexandrine. An example of heroic verse is Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring / Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing!
- heteroclisis — (grammar) The presence of two or more classes of inflection in the inflectional paradigm of a noun, verb etc.