12-Letter Words Starting with G

Loose trousers

Resembling the domestic fowls and pheasants; of or pertaining to the Gallinae.

Gallinipper

Going about seeking pleasure

Gadding about

Galvanical

Instrument for measuring small electric currents

Instrument for detecting small electric currents - mangrove et al (anagram)

Man got a lever working, device in physics lab (wordplay)

""An instrument or apparatus for detecting the presence of electrical currents, especially such as are of feeble intensity.""

Potter's Field!

Art of scoring points

Contests + guy + boat

GAMESOME {playful=adj}

The formation or production of gametes.

GANGLION a group of nerve cells

Ganglioside

Gangsterdom

Gangsterism

Garishness

Garnishee

Garnishment

The act or process of converting into gas.

GASTIGHT not allowing gas in or out

""Pl. gastrocnemii (-m - ) The largest, most prominent muscle of the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot and bends the knee.""

Gastronomy

One who eats and drinks well

Gastrulate

""The process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed.""

Gaucheness

Geanticline

Gegenschein

""GELATINIZE To convert into gelatin or jelly. Same as Gelatinate, v. t. Gelatinate, v. t.""

Gelatinous

""Pl -schaften (German) [-ʃaftən] (Sociology) (often capital) a social group united by common beliefs, family ties, etc. Compare gesellschaft [German, literally: community]""

Gendarmerie

Concerned with tracing a tree (wordplay)

Upset college again concerning family history

Tree experts (wordplay)

Inferring that army VIP is in Gateshead

Generality

Generalizer

GENERALIZE To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.

Generalship

""GENERATION The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.""

GENERATE to bring into existence

Generosity

GENEROUS willing to give

Gentlenesse

A person of good breeding; a lady or a gentleman.

Genuflect

Reverential bending of knee

Knee-bending

GEOBOTANIC

Geobotanist

The magnetism of the earth.

One skilled in geometry; a geometer; a mathematician.

GEOMETRISE

GEOMETRIZE To investigate or apprehend geometrical quantities or laws; to make geometrical constructions; to proceed in accordance with the principles of geometry.

""Any one of the sciences, such as geology or geochemistry, that deals with the earth.""

""The downward bend or subsidence of the earth's crust, which allows of the gradual accumulation of sediment, and hence forms the first step in the making of a mountain range; opposed to geanticlinal. geanticlinal.""

Geosyncline

GEOTECHNIC

Decrease in the number of people named Gerald (wordplay)

Germination

An antique cabinet (wordplay)

Senior government (wordplay)

Gerontocrat

Old Age

Gerrymander

Authoring for someone else

Worth setting puzzles produced under assumed name

Like work of unacknowledged author, worth testing out

Having revolting habits means lushes need hosing to be reformed

Gibberellin

Giftedness

GIGANTIC {huge=adj}

Gingerbread

Overly ornamented.

Rococompany

Cautious; careful.

Pl. gingivectomies Surgical removal of gum tissue.

Plural or third person singular

Gingivitis

The state of experiencing joy and pleasure.

GLAMOURIZE

Art of making bottles etc

GLASSINESS The quality of being glassy.

Glassmaking

GLAUCOUS bluish green

In a glittering manner.

One gets hammered, making a noise!

Bell-like instrument

Percussion instrument with metal bars

Gloominess

GLORIOUS magnificent

Glossiness

Glucokinase

Glucosamine

Glucuronide

Glutaminase

Glutathione

Gluttonous

GLYCERINATE

Glycerinate

GLYCOGEN a carbohydrate

""The production or formation of sugar from gycogen, as in the liver.""

Any of a group of conjugated proteins having a carbohydrate as the nonprotein component.

Gnatcatcher

Goaltending

Godfather

Goldbrick

Goldenness

Acting on or stimulating the gonads: a gonadotropic hormone.

""A hormone secreted by the pituitary gland and placenta, which stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity.""

Goniometry

GORGEOUS beautiful

GORMANDISE

Gormandizer

GORMANDIZE To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton.

Tittle-tattler

Good spoonerism made up about leader of group, a tattler

Gourmandise

Gourmandism

GOURMANDIZE

Gourmandize

Pertaining to a country's rulers

Relating to ruling system

Type of intervention, frequently in strikes.

Governorate

From Kennon to Long, in Louisiana.

GRACEFUL having beauty of form or movement

Indulgent, elegant, courtesy

Graininess

Granddaddy

Grandfather

English word

Grandiflora

Nan's clocks (wordplay)

Women like Moses

Glenway Westcott book (with "The").

Cries of relief after impressive directions from young relatives

Massive yearly payments for old people

Close ancestors

What were Russell and Anna Huxtable on "The Cosby Show" (wordplay)

Show-off (1975-80)

*Showboating type

Show-off

Graniteware

(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) a coarse-grained acid igneous rock containing almost twice as much plagioclase as orthoclase: intermediate in composition between granite and diorite [from grano + diorite ]

Granulation

Granulocyte

GRANULOCYTE

GRAPHITIZE

GRASPING grasp

GRATEFUL deeply thankful

In a satisfying manner

Gratulation

Gravitation

As in pre-stage make-up (wordplay)

Heard Greece decorates to hide face

Greasiness

""GRECIANIZE To conform to the Greek custom, especially in speech.""

Greediness

""GREENBACKER One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments.""

""GREENBACK One of the legal tender notes of the United States; first issued in 1862, and having the devices on the back printed with green ink, to prevent alterations and counterfeits.""

Seeing French dicky birds

Ecofriendly fellow cautiously moves birds

Produce sellers, in Britain or Australia

GREENGROCER A retailer of vegetables or fruits in their fresh or green state.

GREENISH somewhat green

Greenkeeper

GREENMAILER greenmail

Greenmail

Greenockite

He makes sure the rough isn't too rough

One who uses a stimpmeter

Golf course maintenance person

GRIEVOUS causing grief

""An antibiotic, C 17 H 17 ClO 6 , administered orally for the treatment of ringworm and other fungal infections of the skin, hair, and nails.""

Grisliness

Grittiness

Grogginess

Groundburst

Groundfish

Groundless

Groundmass

Layers beneath kippers of crushed leaves

Groundswell

Groundwater

Growliness

Grubbiness

Sense morgue's developed (wordplay)

Grumpiness

""A drug, C 10 H 22 N 4 , used in the form of its sulfate salt in the treatment of hypertension.""

Putting up as security collateral ahead of one bad result

Paper's joint responsibility

Responsibility for safety of daily transport

Mixed a drug in a vessel, as responsibility for ward

GUILEFUL deceitful

""GUILLOTINE A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim.""

Guiltiness

Gunslinging

Gunsmithing

Young vagabonds

""One of a sect of philosophers, said to have been found in India by Alexander the Great, who went almost naked, denied themselves the use of flesh, renounced bodily pleasures, and employed themselves in the contemplation of nature.""

Pl. gynecocracies or gynocracies Government by women.

Gynecology

""The branch of medicine dealing with health care for women, especially the diagnosis and treatment of disorders affecting the female reproductive organs.""

Abnormal enlargement of the breasts in a male.

""Of, relating to, or resulting from the magnetic properties of a spinning, electrically charged particle.""