12-letter words containing t, h, e, g, o
- get-together — an informal and usually small social gathering.
- ghost estate — (esp in Ireland) a housing estate built during an economic boom but unfinished or unoccupied during a recession
- ghost writer — a person who writes one or numerous speeches, books, articles, etc., for another person who is named as or presumed to be the author.
- ghostbusters — Plural form of ghostbuster.
- ghostwriters — Plural form of ghostwriter.
- ghostwritten — Written by a ghostwriter.
- giant hornet — any large, stinging paper wasp of the family Vespidae, as Vespa crabro (giant hornet) introduced into the U.S. from Europe, or Vespula maculata (bald-faced hornet or white-faced hornet) of North America.
- gift voucher — gift certificate.
- 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.
- gnathostomes — Plural form of gnathostome.
- go the round — to be circulated among a number of people: said of a story, rumor, etc.
- go the route — If you go the route, you do something fully or continue with a task until you have completely finished.
- god-botherer — an over-zealous Christian
- goddaughters — Plural form of goddaughter.
- gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
- goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
- good-hearted — kind or generous; considerate; benevolent.
- gopher state — Minnesota (used as a nickname).
- gospel truth — an unquestionably true statement, fact, etc.
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- graph theory — the branch of mathematics dealing with linear graphs.
- 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.
- gross weight — total weight without deduction for tare, tret, or waste.
- groundsheets — Plural form of groundsheet.
- group theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with the structure of mathematical groups and mappings between them.
- growth curve — a curve on a graph in which a variable is plotted against time to illustrate the growth of the variable
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- halogenating — Present participle of halogenate.
- halogenation — (chemistry) The reaction of a halogen with something, especially the replacement of a hydrogen atom of an organic compound with a halogen one.
- have a go at — attack verbally
- have got sth — You use have got to say that someone has a particular thing, or to mention a quality or characteristic that someone or something has. In informal American English, people sometimes just use 'got'.
- have it good — to be in comfortable circumstances
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- hegemonistic — the policy or practice of hegemony to serve national interests.
- hemangiomata — See under angioma.
- hematogenous — originating in the blood.
- hematologist — the study of the nature, function, and diseases of the blood and of blood-forming organs.
- heortologist — a person who studies heortology
- hepaticology — the scientific study of bryophyte plants known as hepatics or liverworts
- hepatogenous — originating in the liver
- hepatomegaly — an abnormal enlargement of the liver, usually associated with liver disease or heart failure.
- herpetologic — Alternative form of herpetological.
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- heterodyning — Present participle of heterodyne.
- heterogamete — either of a pair of conjugating gametes differing in form, size, structure, or sex.
- heterogamety — the condition or state of being heterogametic
- heterogamous — Genetics. having unlike gametes, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to isogamous).
- heterogenous — having its source or origin outside the organism; having a foreign origin.
- heterogonous — Botany. of or relating to monoclinous flowers of two or more kinds occurring on different individuals of the same species, the kinds differing in the relative length of stamens and pistils (opposed to homogonous).
- heterografts — Plural form of heterograft.