16-letter words containing g, a, m

cyanogen bromide — a colorless, slightly water-soluble, poisonous, volatile, crystalline solid, BrCN, used chiefly as a fumigant and a pesticide.
dafydd ap gwilym — ?1320–?1380, Welsh poet
database manager — a person in charge of designing, maintaining, and controlling a database
de morgan's laws — (in formal logic and set theory) the principles that conjunction and disjunction, or union and intersection, are dual. Thus the negation of P & Q is equivalent to not-P or not-Q
dead man walking — a condemned man walking from his prison cell to a place of execution
debating chamber — a room where a legislative assembly holds debates
delegitimization — The act or process of delegitimizing.
demerara (sugar) — a coarse, light-brown sugar
deoxyhaemoglobin — (biochemistry) The form of haemoglobin that has released its oxygen.
dermatologically — In a dermatological way.
destigmatization — The process or act of destigmatizing.
diagrammatically — in the form of a diagram; graphic; outlined.
diamond drilling — drilling using a drill with a diamond-impregnated bit
diazoamino group — the divalent group –N=NNH–.
digital computer — a computer that processes information in digital form.
dinosaurs mating — (humour) The activity said to occur when yet another big iron merger or buy-out occurs; reflects a perception by hackers that these signal another stage in the long, slow dying of the mainframe industry. Also described as "elephants mating": lots of noise and action at a high level, with an eventual outcome in the somewhat distant future. In its glory days of the 1960s, it was "IBM and the Seven Dwarves": Burroughs, Control Data, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR, RCA, and Univac. Early on, RCA sold out to Univac and GE also sold out, and it was "IBM and the BUNCH" (an acronym for Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell) for a while. Honeywell was bought out by Bull. Univac in turn merged with Sperry to form Sperry/Univac, which was later merged (although the employees of Sperry called it a hostile takeover) with Burroughs to form Unisys in 1986 (this was when the phrase "dinosaurs mating" was coined). In 1991 AT&T absorbed NCR, only to spit it out again in 1996. Unisys bought Convergent Technologies in 1988 and later others. More such earth-shaking unions of doomed giants seem inevitable.
direct marketing — marketing direct to the consumer, as by direct mail or coupon advertising.
discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
discriminatingly — With discrimination.
document imaging — the process of converting paper documents into an electronic or digital format
dredging machine — dredge1 (def 1).
drumhead cabbage — acommon type of cabbage with tightly packed leaves and a rounded form with a slightly flattened top
dynamic language — (language) (Dylan) A simple object-oriented Lisp dialect, most closely resembling CLOS and Scheme, developed by Advanced Technology Group East at Apple Computer. See also Marlais.
dynamic markings — directions and symbols used to indicate degrees of loudness
east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
economic embargo — a legal stoppage of commerce, usually taken by one nation or group of nations to harm the economy of another nation or group, often to force a political change
economic migrant — person: seeks work abroad
el camino bignum — (humour) /el' k*-mee'noh big'nuhm/ The road mundanely called El Camino Real, a road through the San Francisco peninsula that originally extended all the way down to Mexico City and many portions of which are still intact. Navigation on the San Francisco peninsula is usually done relative to El Camino Real, which defines logical north and south even though it isn't really north-south many places. El Camino Real runs right past Stanford University. The Spanish word "real" (which has two syllables: /ray-al'/) means "royal"; El Camino Real is "the royal road". In the Fortran language, a "real" quantity is a number typically precise to seven significant digits, and a "double precision" quantity is a larger floating-point number, precise to perhaps fourteen significant digits (other languages have similar "real" types). When a hacker from MIT visited Stanford in 1976, he remarked what a long road El Camino Real was. Making a pun on "real", he started calling it "El Camino Double Precision" - but when the hacker was told that the road was hundreds of miles long, he renamed it "El Camino Bignum", and that name has stuck. (See bignum).
electromagnetics — Electricity and magnetism, collectively, as a field of study.
electromagnetism — The interaction of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
electromigration — (physics) the transport of small particles under the influence of an electric charge.
electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
electromyography — The recording of the electrical activity of muscle tissue, or its representation as a visual display or audible signal, using electrodes attached to the skin or inserted into the muscle.
elimination game — In sports, an elimination game is a game that decides which team or player will take part in the next stage of a particular competition.
emulator program — (networking) (EP) IBM software that emulates a 2701/2/3 hard-wired IBM 360 communications controller and resides in a 370x/372x/374x comms controller. See also Partitioned Emulation Program (PEP).
englishman's tie — a type of knot for tying together heavy ropes
epigrammatically — In a manner suggesting of an epigram.
fair to middling — free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice: a fair decision; a fair judge.
family balancing — the choosing of the sex of a future child on the basis of how many children of each sex a family already has
farmington hills — a city in SE Michigan.
fashion magazine — periodical about trendy clothing
feather geranium — a Eurasian weed, Chenopodium botrys, of the amaranth family, having clusters of inconspicuous flowers and unpleasant smelling, lobed leaves.
fisherman's ring — the signet ring worn by the pope.
flamborough head — a chalk promontory in NE England, on the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire
flight formation — an arrangement of two or more airplanes flying together in a group, usually in a predetermined pattern.
flight simulator — a device used in pilot and crew training that provides a cockpit environment and sensations of flight under actual conditions.
flying ambulance — an aircraft used to take sick or injured people to hospital
for good measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
formation flying — a formal arrangement of flying aircraft acting as a unit
four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).

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