12-letter words containing our
- friend-court — amicus curiae.
- gang of four — a group of four radical members of the Chinese Communist Party who were leaders of the Cultural Revolution and who were purged and imprisoned after the death of Mao Zedong: Jiang Qing (widow of Mao), Wang Hongwen, Yao Wenyuan, and Zhang Chunqiao.
- glamour girl — a girl or woman whose appearance or lifestyle is considered glamorous by popular standards.
- glamour puss — a person with an unusually attractive face.
- glamour-puss — a person with an unusually attractive face.
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.
- gourmandizer — One who gourmandizes.
- graham flour — unbolted wheat flour, containing all of the wheat grain; whole-wheat flour.
- half an hour — 30 minutes
- harbour dues — the fees or charges paid for using a harbour
- harbour seal — a common earless seal, Phoca vitulina, that is greyish-black with paler markings: found off the coasts of North America, N Europe, and NE Asia
- herbivourous — Misspelling of herbivorous.
- honour-bound — morally obliged
- honours list — annual list of persons given royal awards
- hour by hour — each hour
- humourlessly — Alternative spelling of humorlessly.
- ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- in course of — in the process of
- in favour of — If one thing is rejected in favour of another, the second thing is done or chosen instead of the first.
- in honour of — If something is arranged in honour of a particular event, it is arranged in order to celebrate that event.
- in our midst — among us
- in your face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- in-your-face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- journalistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
- journey time — the time taken to make a journey
- journeywoman — The female equivalent of a journeyman.
- kourotrophos — (archaeology) a class of Mycenaean terracotta figurines depicting women carrying children.
- labour costs — the charges incurred when employing labour; the wages, etc, paid to workers, esp those employed to do physical work
- labour force — The labour force consists of all the people who are able to work in a country or area, or all the people who work for a particular company.
- labour pains — the pains felt during the contractions of childbirth
- labour party — a political party in Great Britain, formed in 1900 from various socialist and labor groups and taking its present name in 1906.
- labouriously — Alternative form of laboriously.
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- last honours — observances of respect at a funeral
- lay a course — to sail on a planned course without tacking
- little hours — the canonical hours of prime, terce, sext, and nones in the divine office
- local colour — Local colour is used to refer to customs, traditions, dress, and other things which give a place or period of history its own particular character.
- luxembourger — a native or inhabitant of Luxembourg.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
- misdemeanour — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
- mournfulness — The property of being mournful.
- mystery tour — an excursion to an unspecified destination
- neighbouring — (British, Canada) Situated or living nearby or adjacent to.
- nourishments — Plural form of nourishment.
- oboe d'amour — an oboe with a bulb-shaped bell that is pitched a minor third below the range of the conventional oboe and was much used in music of the Baroque period.
- office hours — hours when a business is open
- offscourings — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
- on all fours — all four limbs or extremities; the four legs or feet of an animal or both arms and both legs or both hands and both feet of a person: The cat rolled off the ledge but landed on all fours.