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12-letter words containing t, o, r, g

  • 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
  • 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
  • guest worker — a foreign worker permitted to work in a country, especially in Western Europe, on a temporary basis.
  • gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
  • gut reaction — instinctive response
  • gutturonasal — articulated in the back of the mouth and given resonance in the nasal cavity, as the sound represented by (ng) in (ring).
  • gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
  • gyromagnetic — of or relating to the magnetic properties of a rotating charged particle.
  • hamartiology — the doctrine of sin in Christian theology
  • hangtown fry — a type of omelet to which fried oysters, bacon, and sometimes onions are added.
  • headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
  • heortologist — a person who studies heortology
  • 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.
  • heterography — spelling different from that in current use.
  • heterogynous — having females of two different kinds, one sexual and the other abortive or neuter, as ants.
  • heterologous — Biology. of different origin; pertaining to heterology.
  • heterozygote — a hybrid containing genes for two unlike forms of a characteristic, and therefore not breeding true to type.
  • heterozygous — having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
  • hierogrammat — a writer of hierograms.
  • high country — a mountainous area below the timberline; a forested mountain area.
  • high treason — treason against the sovereign or state.
  • high-protein — (of a food) rich in proteins
  • high-wrought — highly agitated; overwrought.
  • histographic — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
  • historiology — (obsolete) a discourse on history.
  • hominy grits — grits (def 1).
  • honor bright — upon my honor; really and truly: I did sweep the floor, honor bright.
  • hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
  • hunting horn — the earliest form of the modern horn, consisting of a conical tube coiled in a circle for carrying over the shoulder, and having a flaring bell and a trumpetlike mouthpiece.
  • 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.
  • hydrologists — Plural form of hydrologist.
  • hygrochastic — of or relating to the opening of a fruit or flower caused by water or moisture
  • hygrothermal — (physics) Of or pertaining to both humidity and temperature.
  • hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
  • hysterogenic — inducing hysteria.
  • iatrogenesis — (medicine) Any adverse effect (or complication) resulting from medical treatment.
  • ignorantness — The state or quality of being ignorant; ignorance.
  • immigrations — Plural form of immigration.
  • impregnation — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
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