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13-letter words containing a, r, m

  • gram-negative — (of bacteria) not retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
  • gram-positive — (of bacteria) retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
  • gram-variable — of or relating to bacteria that stain irregularly with Gram's stain, being neither Gram-positive nor Gram-negative.
  • graminicolous — (esp of parasitic fungi) living on grass
  • graminivorous — feeding or subsisting on grass: a graminivorous bird.
  • grammatically — of or relating to grammar: grammatical analysis.
  • grammaticized — Simple past tense and past participle of grammaticize.
  • grand marnier — a French cognac-based liqueur with an orange flavour
  • grand marshal — marshal (def 8).
  • grand old man — a highly respected, usually elderly man who has been a major or the most important figure in a specific field for many years.
  • grand slammer — Bridge. the winning of all thirteen tricks of a deal. Compare little slam.
  • grandma moses — Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma Moses") 1860–1961, U.S. painter.
  • grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
  • grantsmanship — skill in securing grants, as for research, from federal agencies, foundations, or the like.
  • granulomatous — an inflammatory tumor or growth composed of granulation tissue.
  • graphemically — In terms of or by means of graphemes.
  • grass sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as Sudan grass, grown for pasturage and hay.
  • gravity meter — gravimeter (def 2).
  • gray eminence — a person who wields unofficial power, especially through another person and often surreptitiously or privately.
  • grease monkey — a mechanic, especially one who works on automobiles or airplanes.
  • great grimsby — seaport in Humberside, NE England, at the mouth of the Humber estuary: county district pop. 91,000
  • green machine — A computer or peripheral device that has been designed and built to military specifications for field equipment (that is, to withstand mechanical shock, extremes of temperature and humidity, and so forth). Comes from the olive-drab "uniform" paint used for military equipment.
  • gresham's law — the tendency of the inferior of two forms of currency to circulate more freely than, or to the exclusion of, the superior, because of the hoarding of the latter.
  • grimes graves — an area of Neolithic flint mines in Suffolk, England, comprising more than 300 mine shafts and galleries.
  • gross anatomy — the branch of anatomy that deals with structures that can be seen with the naked eye.
  • growth market — a rapidly expanding market
  • gynandromorph — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
  • gyrocompasses — Plural form of gyrocompass.
  • gyromagnetism — the condition or state of being gyromagnetic
  • habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
  • hacker humour — A distinctive style of shared intellectual humour found among hackers, having the following marked characteristics: 1. Fascination with form-vs.-content jokes, paradoxes, and humour having to do with confusion of metalevels (see meta). One way to make a hacker laugh: hold a red index card in front of him/her with "GREEN" written on it, or vice-versa (note, however, that this is funny only the first time). 2. Elaborate deadpan parodies of large intellectual constructs, such as specifications (see write-only memory), standards documents, language descriptions (see INTERCAL), and even entire scientific theories (see quantum bogodynamics, computron). 3. Jokes that involve screwily precise reasoning from bizarre, ludicrous, or just grossly counter-intuitive premises. 4. Fascination with puns and wordplay. 5. A fondness for apparently mindless humour with subversive currents of intelligence in it - for example, old Warner Brothers and Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons, the Marx brothers, the early B-52s, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Humour that combines this trait with elements of high camp and slapstick is especially favoured. 6. References to the symbol-object antinomies and associated ideas in Zen Buddhism and (less often) Taoism. See has the X nature, Discordianism, zen, ha ha only serious, AI koan. See also filk and retrocomputing. If you have an itchy feeling that all 6 of these traits are really aspects of one thing that is incredibly difficult to talk about exactly, you are (a) correct and (b) responding like a hacker. These traits are also recognizable (though in a less marked form) throughout science-fiction fandom.
  • haemarthrosis — Alternative form of hemarthrosis.
  • haemodialyzer — a piece of equipment used in haemodialysis to screen the blood to remove unwanted substances
  • haemorrhaging — Present participle of haemorrhage.
  • half measures — inadequate measures or actions
  • half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • half-marathon — running: 13-mile footrace
  • half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
  • hall of famer — a person who has been accepted into a Hall of Fame.
  • halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
  • hammond organ — an electric organ with two keyboards, electronic tone generation, and a wide variety of tone colours: invented in 1934
  • hampton roads — a channel in SE Virginia between the mouth of the James River and Chesapeake Bay: battle between the Monitor and the Virginia 1862.
  • handcraftsman — A handicraftsman.
  • harbor master — an official who supervises operations in a harbor area and administers its rules.
  • harbourmaster — (British, Canada, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
  • harmonic mean — the mean obtained by taking the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of a set of nonzero numbers.
  • harmonic tone — a tone produced by suppressing the fundamental tone and bringing into prominence one of its overtones.
  • harmonisation — (British spelling) alternative spelling of harmonization.
  • harmonization — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
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