15-letter words containing g, a, m
- college of arms — any of several institutions in the United Kingdom having a royal charter to deal with matters of heraldry, grant armorial bearings, record and trace genealogies, etc
- 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.
- compleat angler — a book on fishing (1653) by Izaak Walton.
- compound magnet — a magnet consisting of two or more separate magnets placed together with like poles pointing in the same direction.
- 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.
- control program — (operating system) (CP) The component of IBM's Virtual Machine (VM) that provides "guest support" for operating systems that run on IBM mainframe compatible processors. Cp does this by providing a seamless emulation of privileged functions in the problem program environment.
- 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
- counterargument — A counterargument is an argument that makes an opposing point to another argument.
- countercampaign — a campaign responding to another campaign
- countercharming — Present participle of countercharm.
- counterclaiming — Present participle of counterclaim.
- countermarching — Present participle of countermarch.
- crash programme — a short intensive programme to learn a skill, language, etc
- 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
- day of judgment — Judgment Day
- 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.
- defragmentation — (computing) The action of defragmenting, particularly with respect to a computer disk or drive.
- deglamorization — the act or process of making less glamorous
- demagnetisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of demagnetization.
- demagnetization — The process of removing the magnetic field from an object.
- dematerializing — Present participle of dematerialize.
- demi-vegetarian — a person who eats poultry and fish, but no red meat
- demographically — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
- dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
- dermatographism — a condition in which touching or lightly scratching the skin causes raised, reddish marks.
- desktop manager — A user interface to system services, usually icon and menu based like the Macintosh Finder, enabling the user to run application programs and use a file system without directly using the command language of the operating system.
- diagonal matrix — a square matrix in which all the entries except those along the diagonal from upper left to lower right are zero.
- diamond cutting — the art or work of cutting and shaping rough diamonds to make them suitable for use by the jewellery trade
- diamond wedding — the 60th, or occasionally the 75th, anniversary of a marriage
- digital mapping — a method of preparing maps in which the data is stored in a computer for ease of access and updating
- disambiguations — Plural form of disambiguation.
- disembarrassing — Present participle of disembarrass.
- disentanglement — Removal of, or extrication from twists, tangles, complications or confusion.