12-letter words containing y, o, g
- convincingly — persuading or assuring by argument or evidence: They gave a convincing demonstration of the car's safety features.
- copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- copyrighters — Plural form of copyrighter.
- copyrighting — Present participle of copyright.
- core gateway — Historically, one of a set of gateways (routers) operated by the Internet Network Operations Center at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). The core gateway system formed a central part of Internet routing in that all groups must advertise paths to their networks from a core gateway.
- county agent — a government employee who gives advice on agriculture in a rural area
- courageously — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
- craniography — examination of the skull as depicted by craniographs, photographs, and charts.
- cringeworthy — Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
- criptography — (spelling) It's spelled "cryptography".
- cryoglobulin — an abnormal immunoglobulin, present in the blood in certain diseases, that precipitates below about 10°C, obstructing small blood vessels in the fingers and toes
- cryosurgical — of or relating to cryosurgery
- cryptogamian — of or relating to cryptogams
- cryptogamist — a botanist specializing in the study of cryptogams
- cryptogamous — Of or pertaining to the cryptogams.
- cryptography — the science or study of analysing and deciphering codes, ciphers, etc; cryptanalysis
- cryptologist — cryptography.
- cryptozygous — having the skull broad and the face narrow.
- curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- currycombing — Present participle of currycomb.
- cyanogenesis — the release by certain plants, such as cherry laurel, of hydrogen cyanide, esp after wounding or invasion by pathogens
- cyanogenetic — having the capability to generate or produce cyanide
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- cycling tour — a holiday involving a tour of an area or region by bicycle
- cyclogenesis — the formation and development of a low-pressure storm system
- cyclographic — of or relating to a cyclograph
- cyclolignane — (organic chemistry) Any lignane having an additional ring.
- cyclostyling — Present participle of cyclostyle.
- cytogenetics — the branch of genetics that correlates the structure, number, and behaviour of chromosomes with heredity and variation
- dactyliology — the study of finger-rings
- daguerrotype — Misspelling of daguerreotype.
- danger money — extra money paid to compensate for the risks involved in certain dangerous jobs
- deep ecology — a radical environmental movement and philosophy that regards humans as equal to other organisms within the global ecosystem.
- demonography — a treatise on demons.
- deoxygenated — to remove oxygen from (a substance, as blood or water).
- deoxygenized — Simple past tense and past participle of deoxygenize.
- deregulatory — Of or pertaining to deregulation.
- derogatively — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- derogatorily — tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory: a derogatory remark.
- desolatingly — in a way that desolates, in a desolating fashion
- dextrogyrate — having dextrorotation
- dialectology — the study of dialects and dialectal variations
- dialogically — in a dialogic manner
- discongruity — incongruity.
- disembodying — Present participle of disembody.
- dodecagynian — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- dodecagynous — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- doggy paddle — a swimming stroke in which the swimmer lies on his or her front, paddles his or her hands in imitation of a swimming dog, and beats his or her legs up and down
- dogmatically — relating to or of the nature of a dogma or dogmas or any strong set of principles concerning faith, morals, etc., as those laid down by a church; doctrinal: We hear dogmatic arguments from both sides of the political spectrum.
- double bogey — a score of two strokes over par on a hole.