12-letter words containing a, r, m
- glamour girl — a girl or woman whose appearance or lifestyle is considered glamorous by popular standards.
- glamour puss — a person with an unusually attractive face.
- glamour-puss — a person with an unusually attractive face.
- glenohumeral — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the glenoid fossa and the humerus.
- godzillagram — (networking) /god-zil'*-gram/ (From Japan's national hero and datagram) 1. A network packet that in theory is a broadcast to every machine in the universe. The typical case is an IP datagram whose destination IP address is [255.255.255.255]. Fortunately, few gateways are foolish enough to attempt to implement this case! 2. A network packet of maximum size. An IP Godzillagram has 65,536 octets. Compare super source quench.
- gold farming — the practice of selling virtual assets gained in a computer game for real money
- gordian worm — nematomorph.
- gormandising — Present participle of gormandise.
- gormandizers — gourmandise1 .
- gormandizing — Present participle of gormandize.
- gothic armor — white armor of the 15th century, marked especially by much fluting and ornamentation.
- gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.
- gourmandizer — One who gourmandizes.
- governmental — 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.
- graeco-roman — of or having both Greek and Roman characteristics: the Greco-Roman influence.
- graham flour — unbolted wheat flour, containing all of the wheat grain; whole-wheat flour.
- graham wafer — a cracker intended to aid digestion.
- graham's law — the principle that the rates of diffusion and effusion of a gas are inversely proportional to the square root of its density, proposed by Thomas Graham (1805-69) in 1831
- gram calorie — calorie (def 1a). Abbreviation: g-cal.
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- graminivores — Plural form of graminivore.
- grammaticise — to make grammatical
- grammaticism — a point or principle of grammar.
- grammaticize — (transitive) To render grammatical.
- grammatology — the scientific study of systems of writing.
- gramophonist — a person who uses a gramophone
- gran turismo — (of an automobile) certified as conforming to the specifications, as fuel capacity and engine displacement, for a class of standard automobiles (Gran Turismo) qualified to engage in various types of competitions. Abbreviation: GTO.
- grand bahama — an island in the NW Bahamas. 430 sq. mi. (1115 sq. km).
- grand cayman — the largest of the Cayman Islands, West Indies. 76 sq. mi. (197 sq. km).
- grand master — the head of a military order of knighthood, a lodge, fraternal order, or the like.
- grandmasters — Plural form of grandmaster.
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- granny smith — a variety of crisp, green-skinned apple, for eating raw or for cooking.
- granny woman — midwife (def 1).
- grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
- grass family — the large plant family Gramineae (or Poaceae), characterized by mostly herbaceous but sometimes woody plants with hollow and jointed stems, narrow sheathing leaves, petalless flowers borne in spikelets, and fruit in the form of seedlike grain, and including bamboo, sugar cane, numerous grasses, and cereal grains such as barley, corn, oats, rice, rye, and wheat.
- graven image — an idol.
- gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
- gravitometer — an instrument that measures specific gravities
- gravitropism — (biology, botany) a plant's ability to change its growth in response to gravity.
- great primer — an 18-point type of a size larger than Columbian, formerly used for Bibles.
- great schism — a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378–1417, over papal succession, during which there were two, or sometimes three, claimants to the papal office.
- green manure — a crop of growing plants, as clover and other nitrogen-fixing plants, plowed under to enrich the soil.
- greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- greenmarkets — Plural form of greenmarket.
- gregarianism — the practice of living or clustering together in crowds or flocks
- grimaldi man — a type of Aurignacian man having a negroid appearance, thought to be a race of Cro-Magnon man
- grimsel pass — an Alpine pass in S Switzerland. 7159 feet (2184 meters) high.
- groom's cake — a fruit cake in layers of graduated size, served at a wedding.
- gross margin — the difference between total revenue and the cost of goods sold