12-letter words containing a, c, m, e
- facebook.com — (web) One of the most popular social networking websites.
- farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
- featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
- file a claim — If you file a claim, you make a request to an insurance company for payment of a sum of money according to the terms of an insurance policy.
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
- flame stitch — an ornamental stitch, used on bedspreads, upholstery fabrics, and the like, producing rows of ogees in various colors.
- forced march — any march that is longer than troops are accustomed to and maintained at a faster pace than usual, generally undertaken for a particular objective under emergency conditions.
- formal cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- free company — a band of free companions.
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- fumariaceous — belonging to the plant family Fumariaceae.
- furnace room — a room containing a furnace or an enclosed chamber for producing heat, often on the bottom floor of the building that it heats
- galactometer — a lactometer.
- galactosemia — an inherited disorder characterized by the inability to metabolize galactose and requiring a galactose-free diet to avoid consequent mental retardation and eye, spleen, and liver abnormalities.
- game console — Also called game(s) console, gaming console, video-game console. a computer system specially made for playing video games by connecting it to a television or other display for video and sound.
- game-changer — Sports. an athlete, play, etc., that suddenly changes the outcome of a game or contest.
- gametophytic — (botany) Of or pertaining to a gametophyte plant.
- gamma camera — a medical apparatus that detects gamma rays emitted from a person's body after the administration of a radioactive drug and so produces images of the organ being investigated
- gangliectomy — (medicine) Excision of a ganglion; surgical removal of a mass of tissue.
- garment rack — A garment rack is a rail used in stores to hang items of clothing on display, such as shirts and coats.
- gastrocnemii — Plural form of gastrocnemius.
- gemeinschaft — an association of individuals having sentiments, tastes, and attitudes in common; fellowship.
- generic name — non-brand name of a product
- geomechanics — the study and application of rock and soil mechanics
- geometrician — a person skilled in geometry.
- germ carrier — an organism carrying microorganisms, esp microorganisms that produce disease in animals or plants
- german ocean — an arm of the Atlantic between Great Britain and the European mainland. About 201,000 sq. mi. (520,600 sq. km); greatest depth, 1998 feet (610 meters).
- glacial meal — finely ground rock material produced by the grinding action of a glacier on its bed.
- glacier milk — water flowing in a stream from the snout of a glacier and containing particles of rock
- 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.
- graeco-roman — of or having both Greek and Roman characteristics: the Greco-Roman influence.
- gram calorie — calorie (def 1a). Abbreviation: g-cal.
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- grammaticise — to make grammatical
- grammaticize — (transitive) To render grammatical.
- gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
- great schism — a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378–1417, over papal succession, during which there were two, or sometimes three, claimants to the papal office.
- greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- groom's cake — a fruit cake in layers of graduated size, served at a wedding.
- grudge match — You can call a contest between two people or groups a grudge match when they dislike each other.
- gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
- gynecomastia — abnormal enlargement of the breast in a male.
- gyromagnetic — of or relating to the magnetic properties of a rotating charged particle.
- haemodynamic — Alternative spelling of hemodynamic.
- haemophiliac — A person with haemophilia.
- haemorrhagic — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of hemorrhagic.
- hamantaschen — a small triangular cake often made with yeast and filled with a mixture of poppy seeds and honey or with prune paste, prepared especially for the festival of Purim.
- hammer price — the price offered as the winning bid in a public auction
- hamming code — (algorithm) Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.