12-letter words containing t, o, n, g, u
- engine mount — The engine mount is the part of the chassis on which an engine is supported.
- equivocating — Present participle of equivocate.
- eurosterling — sterling as part of a European holding
- expugnations — Plural form of expugnation.
- flocculating — Present participle of flocculate.
- fluoridating — Present participle of fluoridate.
- fluorinating — Present participle of fluorinate.
- foul-tasting — having a very unpleasant taste
- frontrunning — the practice by market makers of using advance information provided by their own investment analysts before it has been given to clients
- fuliginosity — The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness.
- fungus stone — the Canadian tuckahoe, Polyporus tuberaster, an irregularly spherical mass of fungus mycelium and earth, forming a pseudosclerotium.
- gap junction — a linkage of two adjacent cells consisting of a system of channels extending across a gap from one cell to the other, allowing the passage of ions and small molecules.
- gas equation — an equation that equates the product of the pressure and the volume of one mole of a gas to the product of its thermodynamic temperature and the gas constant. The equation is exact for an ideal gas and is a good approximation for real gases at low pressures
- gastrulation — the formation of a gastrula.
- gelatigenous — (archaic) Producing or yielding gelatin.
- geniculation — the state of being geniculate.
- gentilitious — relating to a gens
- genuflection — an act of bending the knee or touching it to the ground in reverence or worship.
- gerontogeous — belonging to the Old World.
- get a bun on — to become drunk
- get in touch — make contact
- get round to — find time
- glucoprotein — glycoprotein.
- glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
- gluttonously — tending to eat and drink excessively; voracious.
- go the round — to be circulated among a number of people: said of a story, rumor, etc.
- go to ground — hide, be reclusive
- golden trout — a very colorful freshwater fish, Salmo aguabonita or Oncorhynchus aguabonita, of the salmon family, native to the Sierra Nevada, having a red and orange body and golden sides.
- good-natured — having or showing a pleasant, kindly disposition; amiable: a warm, good-natured person.
- gran turismo — (of an automobile) certified as conforming to the specifications, as fuel capacity and engine displacement, for a class of standard automobiles (Gran Turismo) qualified to engage in various types of competitions. Abbreviation: GTO.
- granulations — Plural form of granulation.
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- granulocytic — Of, or pertaining to, granulocytes.
- gratulations — a feeling of joy.
- ground alert — the state of waiting for orders in or near combat airplanes ready to take to the air at once.
- ground cloth — groundsheet.
- ground fault — the momentary, usually accidental, grounding of a conducting wire.
- ground frost — the condition resulting from a temperature reading of 0°C or below on a thermometer in contact with a grass surface
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- ground sloth — any of various extinct large, edentate mammals from the Pleistocene Epoch of North and South America resembling modern sloths but living on the ground rather than in trees.
- ground staff — The people who are paid to maintain a sports ground are called the ground staff.
- ground state — the state of least energy of a particle, as an atom, or of a system of particles.
- ground track — the path on the earth's surface below an aircraft, missile, rocket, or spacecraft.
- 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.
- groundbursts — Plural form of groundburst.
- groundsheets — Plural form of groundsheet.
- groundstroke — A stroke played after the ball has bounced, as opposed to a volley.
- group of ten — the ten nations who met in Paris in 1961 to arrange the special drawing rights of the IMF: Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, UK, US, and West Germany
- guillotining — Present participle of guillotine.