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15-letter words containing a, g, e, m, t

  • exhibition game — In sports, an exhibition game is a game that is not part of a competition, and is played for entertainment or practice, often without any serious effort to win.
  • fairy godmother — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godmother.
  • farm gate price — the price for the sale of farm produce direct from the producer
  • fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
  • figurate number — a number having the property that the same number of equally spaced dots can be arranged in the shape of a regular geometrical figure.
  • file management — the work of organizing and arranging files in a computer
  • first gentleman — (often initial capital letters) the husband of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
  • flame-arc light — an arc light that uses flame carbons to colour the arc
  • formal argument — (programming)   (Or "parameter") A name in a function or subroutine definition that is replaced by, or bound to, the corresponding actual argument when the function or subroutine is called. In many languages formal arguments behave like local variables which get initialised on entry. See: argument.
  • fragmentariness — The quality of being fragmentary.
  • galvanomagnetic — of or relating to the creation of an electromagnetic field within a conductor, as a metal, or a semiconductor through which an electric current is passed.
  • gas thermometer — a device for measuring temperature by observing the change in either pressure or volume of an enclosed gas.
  • gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.
  • general meeting — business: for all members
  • gentlemanliness — like, befitting, or characteristic of a gentleman.
  • geomagnetically — In a geomagnetic way; through geomagnetism.
  • geometric ratio — the ratio of consecutive terms in a geometric progression.
  • gesamtkunstwerk — total art work; an artistic creation, as the music dramas of Richard Wagner, that synthesizes the elements of music, drama, spectacle, dance, etc.
  • gesta romanorum — a popular collection of tales in Latin with moral applications, compiled in the late 13th century as a manual for preachers
  • get the message — a communication containing some information, news, advice, request, or the like, sent by messenger, telephone, email, or other means.
  • give sth a miss — If you give something a miss, you decide not to do it or not to go to it.
  • give them heaps — to contend strenuously with an opposing sporting team
  • gluteus maximus — the broad, thick, outermost muscle of the buttocks, involved in the rotation and extension of the thigh.
  • golden nematode — a yellowish nematode, Heterodera rostochiensis, that is parasitic on the roots of potatoes, tomatoes, and other solanaceous plants.
  • gotterdammerung — German Mythology. the destruction of the gods and of all things in a final battle with evil powers: erroneous modern translation of the Old Icelandic Ragnarǫk, meaning “fate of the gods,” misunderstood as Ragnarökkr, meaning “twilight of the gods.”.
  • governmentalism — the trend toward expansion of the government's role, range of activities, or power.
  • governmentalist — one who promotes the philosophy of governmentalism
  • governmentality — (sociology) The organized practices (mentalities, rationalities, and techniques) through which subjects are governed and influenced.
  • governmentalize — (US) To bring a private entity under government control; to nationalize.
  • grain itch mite — a mite, Pyemotes ventricosus, that often occurs in straw and normally feeds on the larvae of insects but opportunistically bites humans, causing an itching dermatitis.
  • gram equivalent — the combining power, especially in grams (gram equivalent) of an element or compound, equivalent to hydrogen as a standard of 1.00797 or oxygen as a standard of 8; the atomic weight divided by the valence.
  • grammaticalness — (of language) The state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness.
  • grappier cement — a by-product of the calcination of hydraulic lime, having similar properties and made from ground, unslaked lumps.
  • gravimetrically — (chemistry) Using a gravimetric method.
  • greater omentum — the peritoneal fold attached to the stomach and the colon and hanging over the small intestine.
  • green mountains — a mountain range in E North America, extending from Canada through Vermont into W Massachusetts: part of the Appalachian system. Highest peak: Mount Mansfield, 1338 m (4393 ft)
  • guidance system — The guidance system of a missile or rocket is the device which controls its course.
  • guru meditation — (operating system)   The Amiga equivalent of Unix's panic (sometimes just called a "guru" or "guru event"). When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the form "GURU MEDITATION #XXXXXXXX.YYYYYYYY" may appear, indicating what the problem was. An Amiga guru can figure things out from the numbers. In the earliest days of the Amiga, there was a device called a "Joyboard" which was basically a plastic board built onto a joystick-like device; it was sold with a skiing game cartridge for the Atari game machine. It is said that whenever the prototype OS crashed, the system programmer responsible would concentrate on a solution while sitting cross-legged, balanced on a Joyboard, resembling a meditating guru. Sadly, the joke was removed in AmigaOS 2.04. The Jargon File claimed that a guru event had to be followed by a Vulcan nerve pinch but, according to a correspondent, a mouse click was enough to start a reboot.
  • haemagglutinate — to cause the clumping of red blood cells in (a blood sample)
  • haemoflagellate — a flagellate protozoan, such as a trypanosome, that is parasitic in the blood
  • hair hygrometer — a hygrometer actuated by the changes in length of a strand of human hair brought about by changes in the relative humidity.
  • halting problem — The problem of determining in advance whether a particular program or algorithm will terminate or run forever. The halting problem is the canonical example of a provably unsolvable problem. Obviously any attempt to answer the question by actually executing the algorithm or simulating each step of its execution will only give an answer if the algorithm under consideration does terminate, otherwise the algorithm attempting to answer the question will itself run forever. Some special cases of the halting problem are partially solvable given sufficient resources. For example, if it is possible to record the complete state of the execution of the algorithm at each step and the current state is ever identical to some previous state then the algorithm is in a loop. This might require an arbitrary amount of storage however. Alternatively, if there are at most N possible different states then the algorithm can run for at most N steps without looping. A program analysis called termination analysis attempts to answer this question for limited kinds of input algorithm.
  • heating element — a coil or other arrangement of wire in which heat is produced by an electric current
  • hierogrammatist — a writer of hierograms, hierogrammate
  • high-water mark — a mark showing the highest level reached by a body of water.
  • humphrey bogart — Humphrey (DeForest) ("Bogie"or"Bogey") 1899–57, U.S. motion-picture actor.
  • hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
  • hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
  • hyetometrograph — an instrument used to record rainfall
  • image converter — a device for producing a visual image formed by other electromagnetic radiation such as infrared or ultraviolet radiation or X-rays
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