12-letter words containing t, o, a, d, e, g
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
- draft dodger — a person who evades or attempts to evade compulsory military service.
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- easting down — the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- engaged tone — telephone
- float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
- folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
- foregathered — Simple past tense and past participle of foregather.
- fourth grade — school year: age 9-10
- fudge factor — any variable component added to an experiment, plan, or the like that can be manipulated to allow leeway for error.
- galactosides — Plural form of galactoside.
- ganglionated — gangliate.
- gas-operated — (of a firearm) using some of the exhaust gases to operate the action.
- gastrodermal — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- gastrodermis — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- genetic load — the extent to which a population deviates from the theoretically fittest genetic constitution.
- geodetically — pertaining to geodesy.
- get ahead of — to outdo or excel
- get ahold of — to get in touch with
- giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
- glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
- glycosylated — Simple past tense and past participle of glycosylate.
- goddaughters — Plural form of goddaughter.
- gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
- gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- 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.
- golden state — California (used as a nickname).
- good-hearted — kind or generous; considerate; benevolent.
- good-natured — having or showing a pleasant, kindly disposition; amiable: a warm, good-natured person.
- gradeflation — grade inflation.
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- granodiorite — a coarse-grained acid igneous rock containing almost twice as much plagioclase as orthoclase: intermediate in composition between granite and diorite
- 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.
- ground state — the state of least energy of a particle, as an atom, or of a system of particles.
- ground water — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- have it good — to be in comfortable circumstances
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- 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.
- hydrogenated — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
- hydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hydrogenate.
- in regard to — to look upon or think of with a particular feeling: to regard a person with favor.
- interrogated — to ask questions of (a person), sometimes to seek answers or information that the person questioned considers personal or secret.
- kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.