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13-letter words containing a, g, l, e, m

  • germinability — the degree of ability of a seed to germinate or sprout.
  • germinal disk — blastodisk.
  • gill filament — one of the threadlike processes forming the respiratory surface of a gill.
  • ginger family — the plant family Zingiberaceae, characterized by tropical, often aromatic herbaceous plants having rhizomes, long sheathing leaves, and clusters of tubular flowers, and including cardamon, ginger, and turmeric.
  • glacier cream — a barrier cream, esp against ultraviolet radiation, used when climbing above the snow line
  • glamis castle — a castle near Glamis in Angus, Scotland: ancestral seat of the Lyons family, forebears of Elizabeth, the Queen Mother; famous for its legend of a secret chamber
  • glamour model — a woman who models topless or nude for photographs
  • glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
  • glutamatergic — (biochemistry, neurology) Of or pertaining to the neurotransmission of glutamate.
  • gnu assembler — (GAS) A Unix assembler for the GNU project. Many CPU types are handled and COFF and IEEE-695 formats are supported as well as standard a.out. Current version 2.2 ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, i386, 386BSD, BSD/386, Linux, PS/2-AIX, VAX, Ultrix, BSD, VMS. The assembler has been merged with GNU Binutils. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • gobar numeral — any of a set of ancient numerals derived from Hindu numerals
  • gomez palacio — a city in Durango state, N central Mexico.
  • gram molecule — that quantity of a substance whose weight in grams is numerically equal to the molecular weight of the substance.
  • gram-variable — of or relating to bacteria that stain irregularly with Gram's stain, being neither Gram-positive nor Gram-negative.
  • grand slammer — Bridge. the winning of all thirteen tricks of a deal. Compare little slam.
  • grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
  • graphemically — In terms of or by means of graphemes.
  • gresham's law — the tendency of the inferior of two forms of currency to circulate more freely than, or to the exclusion of, the superior, because of the hoarding of the latter.
  • haematologist — A scientist, usually a medical doctor, who specializes in haematology.
  • hellgrammites — Plural form of hellgrammite (Alternative spelling of hellgramites).
  • hemagglutinin — A substance, such as a viral protein, that causes hemagglutination.
  • hematological — Hematologic.
  • hematologists — Plural form of hematologist.
  • homogenetical — of, involving or relating to homogeny
  • homologoumena — the books in the New Testament generally held as authoritative and canonical by the early church.
  • hotel manager — sb who runs a hotel
  • human ecology — ecology (def 4).
  • hygrometrical — Alternative form of hygrometric.
  • hyperglycemia — an abnormally high level of glucose in the blood.
  • hypoglycaemia — (medical) alternative spelling of hypoglycemia.
  • hypoglycaemic — Alternative spelling of hypoglycemic.
  • imaginatively — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
  • imago on-line — An Internet electronic mail and news service in the United Kingdom provided by Imago Europe plc. A one year subscription to the service costs just seventy five pounds plus VAT and offers dial-up access with a graphical user interface for users of Macintosh and Microsoft Windows PCs and the Apple Newton MessagePad PDA family.
  • intermarginal — occurring or situated between two margins
  • james douglas — Sir James ("the Black Douglas") 1286–1330, Scottish military leader.
  • james gosling — (person)   The software engineer who wrote GOSMACS, and served as Sun Microsystems, Inc. project leader for both NeWS, and Java. He is currently (1997) a Vice President and "Distinguished Engineer" at Sun.
  • judgementally — Alternative form of judgmentally.
  • judgment call — Sports. an observational ruling by a referee or umpire that is necessarily subjective because of the disputable nature of the play in question, and one that may be appealed but not protested, as opposed to a matter of official rule interpretation: Balks and close plays at first are of course judgment calls, and umpires are human.
  • judgmentalism — Judgmental behaviour or attitude.
  • kilomegacycle — a unit of frequency, equal to 10 9 cycles per second. Abbreviation: kMc.
  • king mackerel — a game fish, Scomberomorus cavalla, found in the western Atlantic Ocean.
  • kingsley amis — Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
  • lake maggiore — a lake in N Italy and S Switzerland, in the S Lepontine Alps
  • lake michigan — a state in the N central United States. 58,216 sq. mi. (150,780 sq. km). Capital: Lansing. Abbreviation: MI (for use with zip code), Mich.
  • lamb's tongue — a molding having a deep, symmetrical profile ending in a narrow edge, as in a sash bar.
  • lane markings — white lines on the road that mark lanes
  • laramie range — a mountain range in N Colorado and SE Wyoming. Highest peak, Laramie Peak, 9020 feet (2749 meters).
  • laryngectomee — someone who has had a laryngectomy
  • laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
  • last judgment — judgment (def 8).
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