13-letter words containing a, l, e, g, m, n
- galactosamine — an amino sugar that is a major component of glycolipids and chondroitin.
- gallo-romance — the vernacular language, a development from Latin, spoken in France from about a.d. 600 to 900. Abbreviation: Gallo-Rom.
- galvanometers — Plural form of galvanometer.
- galvanometric — Of or pertaining to galvanometry.
- games console — Also called game(s) console, gaming console, video-game console. a computer system specially made for playing video games by connecting it to a television or other display for video and sound.
- garden balsam — a fleshy annual garden impatiens (Impatiens balsamina) with roselike white, lavender, yellow, pink, or red blossoms borne along the main stem in leaf axils
- general magic — A software company based in Mountain View, California. Products released in 1994 after four years in development include: Telescript - a communications-oriented programming language; Magic Cap - an OOPS designed for PDAs; and a new, third generation GUI. Motorola's Envoy, due for release in the third quarter of 1994, will use Magic Cap as its OS. What PostScript did for cross-platform, device-independent documents, Telescript aims to do for cross-platform, network-independent messaging. Telescript protects programmers from many of the complexities of network protocols. Competitors for Magic Cap include Microsoft's Windows for Pens/Winpad, PenPoint, Apple Computer's Newton Intelligence and GEOS by GeoWorks.
- generalissimo — the supreme commander of the armed forces.
- gentlemanhood — the nature or position of a gentleman
- gentlemanlike — a man of good family, breeding, or social position.
- german silver — any of various alloys of copper, zinc, and nickel, usually white and used for utensils, drawing instruments, etc.; nickel silver.
- 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.
- glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
- 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
- grand slammer — Bridge. the winning of all thirteen tricks of a deal. Compare little slam.
- grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
- hemagglutinin — A substance, such as a viral protein, that causes hemagglutination.
- 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).
- 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 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.
- king mackerel — a game fish, Scomberomorus cavalla, found in the western Atlantic Ocean.
- kingsley amis — Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
- 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).
- late-blooming — of or characteristic of a late bloomer: late-blooming brilliance.
- leucaemogenic — leukemogenic
- leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
- light mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity of less than 2.8 and is generally light in color.
- lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
- luxembourgian — of or relating to Luxembourg, its people, or their language.
- magdalena bay — a bay in NW Mexico, on the SW coast of Baja California. 17 miles (27 km) long; 12 miles (19 km) wide.
- magic lantern — a device having an enclosed lamp and a lenslike opening, formerly used for projecting and magnifying images mounted on slides or films.
- magnet school — a public school with special programs and instruction that are not available elsewhere in a school district and that are specially designed to draw students from throughout a district, especially to aid in desegregation.