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14-letter words containing a, g, n, o, m

  • geometric mean — the mean of n positive numbers obtained by taking the n th root of the product of the numbers: The geometric mean of 6 and 24 is 12.
  • geometrization — the application of geometrical concepts to a different field
  • george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
  • germanomethane — (chemistry) germanium tetrahydride.
  • glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
  • glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
  • global dimming — a decrease in the amount of sunlight reaching the surface of the earth, believed to be caused by pollution in the atmosphere
  • global warming — an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect.
  • globe amaranth — a plant, Gomphrena globosa, native to the Old World tropics, having dense heads of variously colored flowers that retain their color when cut.
  • gloom and doom — an account or prediction of adversity, especially in economic or business affairs; bad news: a trade journal full of gloom and doom about next year's trends.
  • golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
  • gonadectomized — Having undergone gonadectomy.
  • gone a million — done for; sunk
  • good samaritan — a person who gratuitously gives help or sympathy to those in distress. Luke 10:30–37.
  • gooseneck lamp — a desk lamp having a flexible shaft or stem.
  • gosling, james — James Gosling
  • government man — (in the 19th century) a convict
  • governmentally — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • granulomatosis — any disease characterized by the formation of numerous granulomas.
  • gregorian mode — church mode.
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • guantanamo bay — a bay on the SE coast of Cuba.
  • guarantee form — a document that spells out the terms of a legally binding guarantee
  • gulf of mannar — the part of the Indian Ocean between SE India and the island of Sri Lanka: pearl fishing
  • gulf of panama — a wide inlet of the Pacific in Panama
  • gynandromorphs — Plural form of gynandromorph.
  • haematogenesis — (physiology) The origin and development of blood.
  • hangman's knot — a slip noose for hanging a person, usually having eight or nine turns around the rope.
  • have it coming — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • homogenisation — Alternative spelling of homogenization.
  • homogenization — to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
  • housing market — property trade
  • huffman coding — (algorithm)   A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hypophalangism — the condition of having fewer than the normal number of phalanges per finger or toe.
  • illegitimation — (obsolete) The act of making illegitimate; bastardization.
  • image orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.
  • immunostaining — (uncountable, immunology) Any of several staining techniques that are used to detect specific proteins.
  • in a good seam — doing well, esp financially
  • inner mongolia — an administrative division in NE China, adjoining the Mongolian People's Republic. 174,000 sq. mi. (450,660 sq. km). Capital: Hohhot.
  • intermigration — reciprocal migration; interchange of habitat by migrating groups.
  • joint mortgage — a loan of money from a bank or building society to buy a house which two or more people are jointly responsible for repaying
  • kings mountain — a ridge in N South Carolina: American victory over the British 1780.
  • laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
  • leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
  • legal document — a document concerning a legal matter; a document drawn up by a lawyer
  • legitimisation — (British) alternative spelling of legitimization.
  • legitimization — to make legitimate.
  • lemon geranium — a garden geranium, Pelargonium crispum, having lemon-scented leaves.
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