10-letter words containing g, a, m
- foam glass — cellular glass made by fusing powdered glass with carbon particles or other gas-generating material, used chiefly for industrial purposes.
- folk magic — any attempt to practice charms, spells, etc., to control events or people.
- forearming — Present participle of forearm.
- foregleams — Plural form of foregleam.
- formatting — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- fragmental — fragmentary.
- fragmented — reduced to fragments.
- framingham — a town in E Massachusetts.
- freeganism — a person who buys as little as possible and makes use of recycled or discarded goods and materials, in an effort to reduce waste and limit environmental impact.
- frigmarole — a jocular term for foreplay when considered, esp from the man’s point of view, to be a tiresome prelude to the main event
- frog march — to force (a person) to march with the arms pinioned firmly behind the back.
- frog-march — If you are frog-marched somewhere, someone takes you there by force, holding you by the arms or another part of your body so that you have to walk along with them.
- fumigating — Present participle of fumigate.
- fumigation — to expose to smoke or fumes, as in disinfecting or exterminating roaches, ants, etc.
- fumigators — Plural form of fumigator.
- fumigatory — having the ability to fumigate; relating to fumigation
- gabblement — a gabbling noise
- gadolinium — a rare-earth metallic element. Symbol: Gd; atomic weight: 157.25; atomic number: 64.
- galimatias — confused or unintelligible talk.
- gall midge — any of various small fragile mosquito-like dipterous flies constituting the widely distributed family Cecidomyidae, many of which have larvae that produce galls on plants
- galliambic — of or relating to a metre consisting of four lesser Ionics, used by Callimachus and Catullus and imitated by Tennyson in Boadicea
- galumphing — to move along heavily and clumsily.
- gama grass — an ornamental, reedlike grass, Tripsacum dactyloides, one of the largest in the U.S., growing from 4 to 7 feet (1.2 to 2.1 meter) high.
- gamba stop — an organ stop with a tone resembling that of stringed instruments
- gambolling — to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic.
- game chips — round thin potato chips served with game
- game point — (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) the point that if won would enable the scorer or the scorer's side to win the game.
- gamekeeper — a person employed, as on an estate or game preserve, to prevent poaching and provide a natural environment conducive to the propagation of game, as by thinning brush, scattering food after a snowstorm, and the like.
- gameplayer — One who plays a game or games.
- gamer girl — a female video-game enthusiast.
- gamesomely — In a gamesome manner.
- gametangia — an organ or body bearing gametes, as in mosses and liverworts.
- gametocide — a substance that kills gametes or gametocytes.
- gametocyte — a cell that produces gametes.
- gamilaraay — Kamilaroi.
- gaminesque — resembling or typical of a gamin or gamine; impish, mischievous
- gamma iron — Metallurgy. an allotrope of iron, stable between 910°C and 1400°C and having a face-centered cubic lattice.
- gamma rays — a photon of penetrating electromagnetic radiation (gamma radiation) emitted from an atomic nucleus.
- gammadions — Plural form of gammadion.
- gammopathy — a disorder of the immune system characterized by abnormally increased levels of immunoglobulins in the blood.
- gamophobia — The fear of marriage.
- gamotropic — of or relating to gamotropism
- gangliform — having the form of a ganglion.
- gangmaster — a person who recruits and manages temporary or migratory labourers, esp for seasonal agricultural work
- garbageman — a person employed to collect, haul away, and dispose of garbage; sanitation worker.
- garbagemen — Plural form of garbageman.
- gargoylism — a congenital abnormality characterized chiefly by dwarfism, grotesque deformities of the head, trunk, and limbs, mental retardation, and enlargement of the liver and spleen.
- garmenture — the clothing (of a person)
- gas mantle — mantle (def 5).
- gasometers — Plural form of gasometer.