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11-letter words containing a, r, g, e, m

  • 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.
  • grammalogue — a word symbolized by a sign or letter.
  • gramophones — Plural form of gramophone.
  • grand monde — fashionable society; high society
  • grande dame — a usually elderly woman of dignified or aristocratic bearing.
  • grandmaster — the head of a military order of knighthood, a lodge, fraternal order, or the like.
  • 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)
  • gravimeters — Plural form of gravimeter.
  • gravimetric — of or relating to measurement by weight.
  • gray market — a market operating within the law but charging prices substantially below list prices or those fixed by an official agency.
  • gray matter — Anatomy. nerve tissue, especially of the brain and spinal cord, that contains fibers and nerve cell bodies and is dark reddish-gray. Compare white matter.
  • gray mullet — mullet1 (def 1).
  • great miami — Miami2 (def 2).
  • 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.
  • green stamp — Citizens Band Radio Slang. a speeding ticket. Usually, Green Stamps. money; currency.
  • greenmailer — One who greenmails.
  • greenmarket — farmers' market.
  • grey market — Grey market goods are bought unofficially and then sold to customers at lower prices than usual.
  • grey matter — You can refer to your intelligence or your brains as grey matter.
  • grim reaper — the personification of death as a man or cloaked skeleton holding a scythe.
  • 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
  • guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
  • guinea worm — a long, slender roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa.
  • gulf stream — a warm ocean current flowing N from the Gulf of Mexico, along the E coast of the U.S., to an area off the SE coast of Newfoundland, where it becomes the western terminus of the North Atlantic Current.
  • haemorrhage — (pathology) A heavy release of blood within or from a body.
  • hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
  • hatemongers — Plural form of hatemonger.
  • head margin — the empty space between the first line or other printed element on a page and the top of the page.
  • hellgramite — The aquatic larval form of the dobsonfly, having a segmented body with legs on each segment, and a head with prominent pincers, prized as fish bait.
  • hemorrhaged — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
  • hemorrhages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hemorrhage.
  • hemorrhagic — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
  • hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
  • high german — the group of West Germanic languages that in a.d. c400–c500 underwent the second consonant shift described by Grimm's Law. Abbreviation: HG.
  • ideogrammic — Being, or pertaining to, an ideogram.
  • ignoramuses — Plural form of ignoramus.
  • image-maker — handler (sense c)
  • imagesetter — a printer or typesetting machine for producing professional-quality text with extremely high resolution.
  • immarginate — not having a distinct margin
  • impignorate — (obsolete, transitive) To pledge or pawn.
  • imprecating — Present participle of imprecate.
  • impregnable — susceptible to impregnation, as an egg.
  • impregnably — In an impregnable manner; in a manner to defy attack.
  • impregnated — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
  • impregnates — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
  • impregnator — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
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