12-letter words containing t, e, l, o, s
- forestaysail — a triangular sail set on a forestay; the innermost headsail of a vessel.
- foretopsails — Plural form of foretopsail.
- fortresslike — Resembling a fortress in shape or impregnability.
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- frictionless — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
- fulton sheen — Fulton (John) 1895–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman, writer, and teacher.
- functionless — Lacking a function.
- 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.
- gallows tree — a gallows.
- gamopetalous — having the petals united.
- gastrodermal — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- gelatigenous — (archaic) Producing or yielding gelatin.
- gentilitious — relating to a gens
- gentleperson — a person of good family and position; gentleman or lady.
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- get to sleep — If you cannot get to sleep, you are unable to sleep.
- 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.
- glomerulitis — inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney.
- 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.
- glycosylated — Simple past tense and past participle of glycosylate.
- god's plenty — an abundant or overabundant quantity.
- 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 stars — a plant, Bloomeria crocea, of the amaryllis family, native to southern California, having clusters of golden-orange, starlike flowers.
- golden state — California (used as a nickname).
- goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
- gospel truth — an unquestionably true statement, fact, etc.
- 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.
- greenbottles — Plural form of greenbottle.
- grossularite — a mineral, calcium aluminum garnet, Ca 3 Al 2 Si 3 O 12 , occurring in gray-white to pinkish crystals.
- gynecologist — a physician specializing in gynecology. Abbreviation: GYN, gyn.
- haematoblast — any of the undifferentiated cells in the bone marrow that develop into blood cells
- haematolyses — Plural form of haematolysis.
- haematolysis — Haemolysis.
- half section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- half-section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- hectocotylus — a modified arm of the male of certain cephalopods that is used to transfer sperm to the female.
- heldentenors — Plural form of heldentenor.
- heliotropism — heliotropic tendency or growth.
- hellespontus — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
- hematoblasts — Plural form of hematoblast.
- hematocolpos — (medicine) A medical condition in which the vagina fills with menstrual blood, often caused by the combination of menstruation with an imperforate hymen.
- hematologist — the study of the nature, function, and diseases of the blood and of blood-forming organs.
- heortologist — a person who studies heortology
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood