15-letter words containing g, a, m, i
- cactus geranium — a plant, Pelargonium echinatum, of the geranium family, native to southern Africa, having prickly stipules and white or reddish flowers.
- cairngorm-stone — smoky quartz.
- call for margin — a demand made by a stockbroker for partial payment of a client's debt due to decreasing value of the collateral
- campaign button — a disk-shaped pin worn by a supporter of a political candidate, usually bearing the name of the candidate and often a slogan or the candidate's picture.
- campaign ribbon — a distinctively colored ribbon, either on a small, narrow bar or in the form of a strip, representing a military campaign participated in by the wearer.
- campaign worker — a person who carries out duties for a political candidate or party, esp before an election
- cardiac massage — a rhythmic compressing of the heart, using the hands to force blood through the blood vessels: an emergency medical procedure for treating heart failure
- carding machine — card2 (defs 1, 2).
- chaulmoogra oil — a brownish-yellow oil or soft fat expressed from the seeds of a chaulmoogra tree, used formerly in the treatment of leprosy and skin diseases.
- chemical change — Chemistry. a usually irreversible chemical reaction involving the rearrangement of the atoms of one or more substances and a change in their chemical properties or composition, resulting in the formation of at least one new substance: The formation of rust on iron is a chemical change.
- chromatographic — (analytical chemistry) Of or pertaining to chromatography.
- cigarette smoke — the acrid smoke produced by cigarettes being smoked
- cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
- cinematographer — A cinematographer is a person who decides what filming techniques should be used during the shooting of a film.
- cinematographic — a motion-picture projector.
- cinemicrography — the making of a film through the lens of a microscope
- circumambagious — in a round-about manner
- circumnavigable — Able to be circumnavigated.
- circumnavigated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate.
- circumnavigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumnavigate.
- circumnavigator — A person who circumnavigates; that is, sails around the world.
- circumvallating — Present participle of circumvallate.
- cleistogamously — in a cleistogamous manner
- coconut matting — a form of coarse matting made from the fibrous husk of the coconut
- combat fatigues — the uniform worn by soldiers when fighting
- come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
- commercialising — Present participle of commercialise.
- commercializing — Present participle of commercialize.
- commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
- committee stage — (in British parliamentary procedure) the detailed examination by MPs of proposed legislation
- compassionating — Present participle of compassionate.
- computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
- confidence game — A confidence game is the same as a confidence trick.
- conglomerations — Plural form of conglomeration.
- copying machine — a machine that makes copies of original documents, especially by xerography.
- corporate image — the way an organization is presented to or perceived by its members and the public
- countercampaign — a campaign responding to another campaign
- countercharming — Present participle of countercharm.
- counterclaiming — Present participle of counterclaim.
- countermarching — Present participle of countermarch.
- criminal damage — intentionally damaging property that belongs to someone else, including public property
- culture jamming — a form of political and social activism which, by means of fake adverts, hoax news stories, pastiches of company logos and product labels, computer hacking, etc, draws attention to and at the same time subverts the power of the media, governments, and large corporations to control and distort the information that they give to the public in order to promote consumerism, militarism, etc
- cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
- customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
- cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
- deagglomeration — Deagglomeration is the process of breaking up agglomerates.
- decision-making — the act or process of making decisions
- decontaminating — Present participle of decontaminate.
- decriminalising — Present participle of decriminalise.
- decriminalizing — (rare) present participle of decriminalize To change the laws so something is no longer a crime.