10-letter words containing g, a, m
- combatting — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- come again — Some people say 'Come again?' when they want you to repeat what you have just said.
- come along — You tell someone to come along to encourage them in a friendly way to do something, especially to attend something.
- comm badge — a small combined radio transmitter and receiver, carried around by one person, esp military personnel, in the form of a badge worn on the chest
- commanding — If you are in a commanding position or situation, you are in a strong or powerful position or situation.
- compacting — Present participle of compact.
- companding — a process in which the dynamic range of a signal is reduced for recording purposes and then expanded to its original value for reproduction or playback.
- companying — Present participle of company.
- compassing — Present participle of compass.
- conga drum — a large tubular bass drum, used chiefly in Latin American and funk music and played with the hands
- cosmogonal — a theory or story of the origin and development of the universe, the solar system, or the earth-moon system.
- cro magnon — an Upper Paleolithic population of humans, regarded as the prototype of modern Homo sapiens in Europe. Skeletal remains found in an Aurignacian cave in southern France indicate that the Cro-Magnon had long heads, broad faces, and sunken eyes, and reached a height of approximately 5 feet 9 inches (175 cm).
- cro-magnon — belonging to a prehistoric, Caucasoid type of human who lived on the European continent, distinguished by tallness and erect stature, and by the use of stone and bone implements, principally of Aurignacian culture
- cryptogams — Plural form of cryptogam.
- cryptogamy — the state of being a cryptogam
- cryptogram — a secret symbol
- cumulating — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- cunningham — Merce (mɜːs). 1919–2009 US dancer and choreographer. His experimental ballets include Suite for Five (1956) and Travelogue (1977)
- cystograms — Plural form of cystogram.
- damageable — injury or harm that reduces value or usefulness: The storm did considerable damage to the crops.
- damagingly — In a damaging manner.
- damsel bug — any of various bugs of the carnivorous family Nabiidae, related to the bedbugs but feeding on other insects. The larvae of some species mimic and associate with ants
- danger man — a person, esp a member of a sports team, who is likely to inflict damage on opponents
- dealmaking — The making of commercial, financial or political deals.
- decagramme — ten grammes
- decimating — Present participle of decimate.
- declaiming — Present participle of declaim.
- deep magic — [possibly from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, especially one neither generally published nor available to hackers at large (compare black art); one that could only have been composed by a true wizard. Compiler optimisation techniques and many aspects of OS design used to be deep magic; many techniques in cryptography, signal processing, graphics, and AI still are. Compare heavy wizardry. Especially found in comments of the form "Deep magic begins here.". Compare voodoo programming.
- defragment — to reorganize files on (a disk) so that the parts of each file are stored in contiguous sectors on the disk, thereby improving computer performance and maximizing disk space.
- demagogism — The practices and principles of a demagogue; a pandering to the multitude for selfish ends.
- demagogued — Simple past tense and past participle of demagogue.
- demagogues — Plural form of demagogue.
- demography — Demography is the study of the changes in numbers of births, deaths, marriages, and cases of disease in a community over a period of time.
- demurrages — Plural form of demurrage.
- dendrogram — any branching diagram, such as a cladogram, showing the interconnections between treelike organisms
- dermatogen — a meristem at the apex of stems and roots that gives rise to the epidermis
- designatum — (semantics) That which is named or designated by a linguistic term.
- diagometer — an instrument invented by Rousseau, formerly used to measure the electrical conductivity of substances
- diagraming — Present participle of diagram.
- diagrammed — Simple past tense and past participle of diagram.
- diamonding — Present participle of diamond.
- diaphragms — Plural form of diaphragm.
- digitalism — the abnormal condition resulting from an overconsumption of digitalis.
- disembargo — to remove an embargo from.
- disimagine — to shun from the imagination
- dog salmon — chum salmon.
- dogmatical — relating to or of the nature of a dogma or dogmas or any strong set of principles concerning faith, morals, etc., as those laid down by a church; doctrinal: We hear dogmatic arguments from both sides of the political spectrum.
- dogmatists — Plural form of dogmatist.
- dogmatized — Simple past tense and past participle of dogmatize.
- dogmatizer — One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter; a magisterial teacher.