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11-letter words containing a, i, m

  • glomeration — a glomerate condition; conglomeration.
  • glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
  • glutaminase — an enzyme used to treat cancer
  • gobsmacking — Causing one to be gobsmacked; astounding, flabbergasting.
  • 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
  • grammarians — Plural form of grammarian.
  • grammatical — of or relating to grammar: grammatical analysis.
  • grand mufti — a Muslim religious leader.
  • granitiform — resembling granite
  • granuliform — having a granular structure
  • graphomania — The compulsion to write books.
  • gravimeters — Plural form of gravimeter.
  • gravimetric — of or relating to measurement by weight.
  • gravity dam — a dam resisting the pressure of impounded water through its own weight.
  • great miami — Miami2 (def 2).
  • greenmailer — One who greenmails.
  • grim reaper — the personification of death as a man or cloaked skeleton holding a scythe.
  • grimacingly — With a grimace.
  • grimm's law — the statement of the regular pattern of consonant correspondences presumed to represent changes from Proto-Indo-European to Germanic, according to which voiced aspirated stops became voiced obstruents, voiced unaspirated stops became unvoiced stops, and unvoiced stops became unvoiced fricatives: first formulated in 1820–22 by Jakob Grimm, though the facts had been noted earlier by Rasmus Rask.
  • guesstimate — to estimate without substantial basis in facts or statistics.
  • guestimates — Plural form of guestimate.
  • 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.
  • gum disease — dental infection
  • gum elastic — rubber1 (def 1).
  • gutturalism — The quality of being guttural.
  • gymnasiarch — (in ancient Greece) a magistrate who superintended the gymnasia and public games in certain cities.
  • gymnastical — Alternative form of gymnastic.
  • 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.
  • h-r diagram — Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.
  • habiliments — Plural form of habiliment.
  • haemangioma — Alternative spelling of hemangioma.
  • haematocrit — Alternative spelling of hematocrit.
  • haematoidin — Alternative form of hematoidin.
  • haemocyanin — a blue copper-containing respiratory pigment in crustaceans and molluscs that functions as haemoglobin
  • haemoglobin — (protein) alternative spelling of hemoglobin.
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