11-letter words containing a, g, m, o
- golden gram — (in the East Indies) the chickpea used as a food for people and cattle.
- golden mean — the perfect moderate course or position that avoids extremes; the happy medium.
- gombeen-man — a usurer or moneylender.
- gonadectomy — (surgery) The procedure to remove an ovary or testis.
- gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
- gonycampsis — abnormal curvature of the knee.
- gorilla arm — The side-effect that destroyed touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s. It seems the designers of all those spiffy touch-menu systems failed to notice that humans aren't designed to hold their arms in front of their faces making small motions. After more than a very few selections, the arm begins to feel sore, cramped, and oversized - the operator looks like a gorilla while using the touch screen and feels like one afterward. This is now considered a classic cautionary tale to human-factors designers; "Remember the gorilla arm!" is shorthand for "How is this going to fly in *real* use?".
- gorillagram — a jocular greetings message delivered to someone celebrating a birthday, engagement, etc, by a person dressed as a gorilla
- gormandized — Simple past tense and past participle of gormandize.
- gormandizer — A person who gormandizes; a glutton or gourmand.
- gormandizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gormandize.
- gossypiboma — (surgery) A gauze or surgical sponge left inside a patient's body during surgery.
- gourmandise — unrestrained enjoyment of fine foods, wines, and the like.
- gourmandism — a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
- gourmandize — to enjoy fine food and drink, especially often and in lavish quantity.
- gradiometer — any instrument used to measure a gradient, as the rate of change of the geomagnetic field. Compare gradient (def 3a).
- graminivore — An herbivorous animal, a grazer, that feeds primarily on grasses.
- graminology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of grasses
- grammalogue — a word symbolized by a sign or letter.
- gramophones — Plural form of gramophone.
- grand monde — fashionable society; high society
- grandmother — the mother of one's father or mother.
- grangemouth — a port in Scotland, in Falkirk council area: now Scotland's second port, with oil refineries, shipyards, and chemical industries. Pop: 17 771 (2001)
- granitiform — resembling granite
- granuliform — having a granular structure
- granulomata — an inflammatory tumor or growth composed of granulation tissue.
- graphomania — The compulsion to write books.
- graphomotor — pertaining to the muscular movements in writing.
- great mogul — the emperor of the former Mogul Empire in India founded in 1526 by Baber.
- greco-roman — of or having both Greek and Roman characteristics: the Greco-Roman influence.
- ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
- ground game — game animals, such as hares or deer, found on the earth's surface: distinguished from game birds
- guardswoman — A female guardsman.
- guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
- guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
- guinea worm — a long, slender roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa.
- gymnanthous — achlamydeous.
- gymnophobia — An inordinate fear or hatred of being naked, and possibly nudity or nudists and naturists.
- gymnorhinal — (of a bird) having the nostrils exposed, not covered by feathers.
- gynaecomast — a man who suffers from gynaecomastia
- gyrocompass — a navigational compass containing a gyroscope rotor, that, when adjusted for the latitude and speed of the vessel or aircraft, indicates the direction of true north along the surface of the earth or communicates this information to one or more gyro repeaters.
- haemangioma — Alternative spelling of hemangioma.
- haematology — (medicine) The scientific study of blood and blood-producing organs.
- haemoglobin — (protein) alternative spelling of hemoglobin.
- haemorrhage — (pathology) A heavy release of blood within or from a body.
- harmonising — Present participle of harmonise.
- harmonizing — Present participle of harmonize.
- harmonogram — the image produced by a harmonograph
- hatemongers — Plural form of hatemonger.
- hegemonical — having hegemony, or dominance: the ruling party's hegemonic control of all facets of society.