12-letter words containing g, a, r, m
- haulage firm — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- heartwarming — gratifying; rewarding; satisfying: a heartwarming response to his work.
- heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
- hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
- hellgrammite — the aquatic larva of a dobsonfly, used as bait in fishing.
- hemorrhaging — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
- heterogamete — either of a pair of conjugating gametes differing in form, size, structure, or sex.
- heterogamety — the condition or state of being heterogametic
- heterogamous — Genetics. having unlike gametes, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to isogamous).
- hierogrammat — a writer of hierograms.
- hill farming — the activity and business of having a hill farm
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- human rights — basic civil freedoms
- hunger march — a procession of protest or demonstration by the unemployed
- hydrargyrism — mercurialism.
- hygrothermal — (physics) Of or pertaining to both humidity and temperature.
- hypermagical — produced by or as if by magic: The change in the appearance of the room was magical.
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- iambographer — a person who writes iambs
- imagineering — the implementing of creative ideas into practical form.
- immigrations — Plural form of immigration.
- imparadising — Present participle of imparadise.
- impregnating — Present participle of impregnate.
- impregnation — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
- in agreement — of the same opinion
- in-migration — to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory.
- infrakingdom — (taxonomy) A taxonomic category sometimes inserted below subkingdom.
- ivy geranium — a trailing geranium, Pelargonium peltatum, of southern Africa, having a fleshy stem that becomes woody with age, glossy, ivy-shaped leaves, and clusters of flowers ranging from white to deep rose in color.
- jumping hare — springhare.
- jumpstarting — Present participle of jumpstart.
- karnaugh map — A Karnaugh map is a pictorial method used to minimize Boolean expressions without having to use Boolean algebra theorems.
- karyomapping — a technique for determining whether an embryo has inherited a genetic defect by analysing DNA taken from it and its close relatives
- kashmir goat — one of a long-haired breed of goat raised in Tibet and the higher elevations of China, the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, and Turkey for its meat, milk, and cashmere wool.
- king-of-arms — a title of certain of the principal heralds of England and certain other kingdoms empowered by their sovereigns to grant armorial bearings.
- kolyma range — a mountain range in NE Russia, in NE Siberia, extending about 1100 km (700 miles) between the Kolyma River and the Sea of Okhotsk. Highest peak: 1862 m (6109 ft)
- lammergeiers — Plural form of lammergeier.
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- large-format — of or relating to a camera with an image area of 5 inches by 4 inches or more
- large-minded — having tolerant views or liberal ideas; broad-minded.
- laryngectomy — excision of part or all of the larynx.
- laryngospasm — An uncontrolled, spasmodic closure of the larynx.
- laue diagram — a diffraction pattern used to study crystal structure, consisting of symmetrically arranged spots obtained when a beam of x-rays, electrons, or neutrons is passed through a thin crystal and exposes a photographic plate.
- leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
- legal memory — a period of time, now usually established by statute, during which custom, conduct, or a state of affairs must have existed or continued in order for it to have taken on the force of law or to establish a legal right or title not otherwise provable.
- line manager — immediate supervisor
- loading ramp — a ramp that is used for loading a ship
- logical form — the syntactic structure that may be shared by different expressions as abstracted from their content and articulated by the logical constants of a particular logical system, esp the structure of an argument by virtue of which it can be shown to be formally valid. Thus John is tall and thin, so John is tall has the same logical form as London is large and dirty, so London is large, namely P & Q, so P
- lognormality — the condition of having a natural logarithm with normal distribution
- long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
- longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.