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15-letter words containing g, e, m, s

  • green mountains — a mountain range in E North America, extending from Canada through Vermont into W Massachusetts: part of the Appalachian system. Highest peak: Mount Mansfield, 1338 m (4393 ft)
  • green's theorem — one of several theorems that connect an integral in n -dimensional space with one in (n − 1)-dimensional space.
  • grimes (golden) — a yellow autumn eating apple
  • ground meristem — an area of primary meristematic tissue, emerging from and immediately behind the apical meristem, that develops into the pith and the cortex.
  • guidance system — The guidance system of a missile or rocket is the device which controls its course.
  • hamersley range — a mountain range in N Western Australia: iron-ore deposits. Highest peak: 1236 m (4056 ft)
  • hedonic damages — compensation based on what the victim of a crime might have earned in the future
  • hemangiosarcoma — A fast-growing, highly invasive variety of cancer, a sarcoma arising from the lining of blood vessels, occurring almost exclusively in dogs and rarely in cats.
  • hemiglossectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a portion of the tongue.
  • hierogrammatist — a writer of hierograms, hierogrammate
  • homogeneousness — (rare) homogeneity, the state of having a uniform composition.
  • hughes syndrome — a condition of the autoimmune system caused by antibodies reacting against phospholipids, leading to thrombosis
  • hump one's swag — (of a tramp) to carry one's belongings from place to place on one's back
  • hypomagnesaemia — the condition of having too little magnesium in the blood, particularly in cattle, in which it is also known as lactation tetany
  • ignition system — the system in an internal-combustion engine that produces the spark to ignite the mixture of fuel and air: includes the battery, ignition coil, distributor, spark plugs, and associated switches and wiring.
  • ignominiousness — The state or quality of being ignominious.
  • image-conscious — concerned about the way one comes across to other people and the impression one creates
  • imperfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which either no spores or asexual spores, as conidia, are produced.
  • impregnableness — The state of being impregnable; impregnability.
  • inhomogeneities — lack of homogeneity.
  • inhomogeneously — lack of homogeneity.
  • instant message — an electronic message sent in real time via the Internet and therefore immediately available for display on the recipient's screen. Compare text message.
  • intransigentism — the policy or set of principles of an intransigent
  • it is high time — If you say that it is high time that something happened or was done, you are saying in an emphatic way that it should happen or be done now, and really should have happened or been done sooner.
  • jog sb's memory — If something or someone jogs your memory, they cause you to suddenly remember something that you had forgotten.
  • kingdom of ends — (in Kantian ethics) a metaphorical realm to which belong those persons acting and being acted upon in accordance with moral law.
  • laminated glass — Laminated glass is safety glass in which a transparent plastic film is placed between plates of glass.
  • largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
  • laser machining — Laser machining is a process in which material is removed from a surface using light from a laser.
  • lemon-grass oil — a yellowish to brownish oil distilled from the leaves of certain lemon grasses, especially Cymbopogon citratus, used chiefly in perfumery.
  • leptomeningitis — (pathology) inflammation of the leptomeninges.
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • leukaemogenesis — the development of leukaemia
  • luminous energy — light1 (def 2a).
  • madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
  • magnanimousness — The quality of being magnanimous.
  • magnesioferrite — (mineralogy) A magnesium iron oxide mineral, a member of the magnetite series of spinels, which forms black metallic octahedral crystals.
  • magnesium light — the strongly actinic white light produced when magnesium is burned: used in photography, signaling, pyrotechnics, etc.
  • magnesium oxide — magnesia.
  • magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
  • magnetic stripe — magnetic strip.
  • mail user agent — (messaging)   (MUA) The program that allows the user to compose and read electronic mail messages. The MUA provides the interface between the user and the Message Transfer Agent. Outgoing mail is eventually handed over to an MTA for delivery while the incoming messages are picked up from where the MTA left it (although MUA's running on single-user machines may pick up mail using POP). Popular MUAs for Unix include elm, mush, pine, and RMAIL.
  • mailing address — postal or delivery address
  • manganese oxide — a type of metallic oxide used to colour glass purple
  • manganese steel — any of various steels containing manganese, especially one that has up to 14 percent manganese, used in work involving heavy strains and impacts.
  • manual steering — Manual steering is steering in which the driver does all the work, without the help of mechanical power.
  • marburg disease — a viral disease producing a severe and often fatal illness with fever, rash, diarrhea, vomiting, and gastrointestinal bleeding, transmitted to humans through contact with infected green monkeys.
  • marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
  • margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
  • mascarene grass — a creeping grass, Zoysia tenuifolia, naturalized in California and Florida, having fine leaves and shoots that make good turf.
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