12-letter words containing lo
- foreclosures — Plural form of foreclosure.
- forest floor — the above- ground layer of a forest made up of tree roots, soil and decaying matter
- forlorn hope — a perilous or desperate enterprise.
- formal logic — the branch of logic concerned exclusively with the principles of deductive reasoning and with the form rather than the content of propositions.
- fosbury flop — a modern high-jumping technique whereby the jumper clears the bar headfirst and backwards
- four-o'clock — a common garden plant, Mirabilis jalapa, of the four-o'clock family, having tubular red, white, yellow, or variegated flowers that open late in the afternoon.
- free balloon — a balloon, often equipped to carry passengers, that drifts with air currents and whose ascent and descent are controlled by the release of ballast and buoyant gas.
- front loader — a washing machine with a door at the front which opens one side of the drum into which washing is placed
- front-loaded — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
- front-loader — a machine or appliance, as a washing machine, loaded and unloaded through an opening in the front (as distinguished from a top loader).
- frontal lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the central sulcus.
- frost hollow — a depression in a hilly area in which cold air collects, becoming very cold at night
- full-blooded — of unmixed ancestry; thoroughbred: a full-blooded Cherokee.
- funnel cloud — a rapidly rotating funnel-shaped cloud extending downward from the base of a cumulonimbus cloud, which, if it touches the surface of the earth, is a tornado or waterspout.
- furunculosis — the condition characterized by the presence of boils.
- futurologist — (sometimes initial capital letter) a follower of futurism, especially an artist or writer.
- gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
- gallows tree — a gallows.
- gamopetalous — having the petals united.
- gamophyllous — having leaves united by their edges.
- gamosepalous — having the sepals united.
- garbological — Of or relating to garbology.
- garcia lorca — Federico [fed-uh-ree-koh;; Spanish fe-th e-ree-kaw] /ˌfɛd əˈri koʊ;; Spanish ˌfɛ ðɛˈri kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1899–1936, Spanish poet and dramatist.
- gastrologist — the study of the structure, functions, and diseases of the stomach.
- genealogical — a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.
- genetic load — the extent to which a population deviates from the theoretically fittest genetic constitution.
- genioglossus — (anatomy) A muscle that runs from the mandible to the tongue.
- geohydrology — hydrogeology.
- geologically — of, relating to, or based on geology.
- gerontologic — relating to gerontology
- giant slalom — a slalom race in which the course has more gates and is longer and steeper than that in a regular slalom.
- gillyflowers — Plural form of gillyflower.
- glaciologist — glacialist.
- glassblowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
- glassy alloy — a metal alloy having a noncrystalline, glasslike structure.
- global index — (filename extension) (gid) The filename extension of a Windows 95 "global index" file. .gid files are created by the help browser internal to Windows 95 (also available for other Windows versions) for WinHelp files (hlp), as well as for storing user preferences, such as window position.
- global reach — When people talk about the global reach of a company or industry, they mean its ability to have customers in many different parts of the world.
- globeflowers — Plural form of globeflower.
- globetrotter — a person who travels regularly or frequently to countries all over the world.
- glockenspiel — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated steel bars mounted in a frame and struck with hammers, used especially in bands.
- glomerulitis — inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney.
- gloria patri — the short hymn “Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.”.
- gloriousness — delightful; wonderful; completely enjoyable: to have a glorious time at the circus.
- gloss finish — a reflective or shiny surface, usually on a photograph but also sometimes on metal, paper, paint, etc
- glossarially — In the manner of a glossary.
- glossematics — a school of linguistic analysis developed by Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) in Copenhagen in the 1930s based on the study of the distribution of glossemes.
- glossography — a glossator.
- glossolalist — One who exhibits glossolalia; one who speaks in tongues.
- glossologist — One who defines and explains terms; one versed in glossology.
- glossophobia — The fear of public speaking.