9-letter words containing g, e, m, s
- game show — a television or radio program in which contestants answer questions or play games of skill or chance in order to win money or other prizes.
- gamecocks — Plural form of gamecock.
- gamesters — Plural form of gamester.
- gameyness — quality of being gamey
- ganderism — foolish behaviour
- gas meter — an apparatus for measuring and recording the amount of gas produced or consumed, especially such an apparatus metering the amount of household gas piped into a dwelling.
- gasometer — an apparatus for measuring and storing gas in a laboratory.
- gasometre — (nonstandard, and, now, largely obsolete) Alternative form of gasometer.
- gasometry — the measurement of gases.
- gastraeum — the underside of the body, especially of a bird
- gaudeamus — a university students' gathering or merry-making
- gelsemine — a bitter crystalline alkaloid obtained from the yellow jasmine vine (Gelsemium sempervirens)
- gelsemium — the dried rhizome and root of yellow jasmine, formerly used as a sedative in the form of a powder, tincture, or fluid extract.
- gem state — Idaho (used as a nickname).
- gemfishes — Plural form of gemfish.
- geminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of geminate.
- gemminess — the state or quality of being gemmy or gemlike
- gemstones — Plural form of gemstone.
- gendarmes — Plural form of gendarme.
- genderism — The belief that gender is a binary, comprising male and female, and that the aspects of a person's gender are inherently linked to their sex at birth.
- gentilism — the quality of being a gentile, especially heathenism; paganism.
- geomatics — The discipline of gathering, storing, processing, and delivering geographic information.
- geometers — Plural form of geometer.
- geonomics — a doctrine holding that humans own what is created by them, but that those things found in nature, such as land, belong to no one person but instead belong equally to all mankind
- geraniums — Plural form of geranium.
- germanism — a usage, idiom, or other feature that is characteristic of the German language.
- germanist — a specialist in the study of German culture, literature, or linguistics.
- germanous — containing bivalent germanium.
- germinals — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the seventh month of the year, extending from March 21 to April 19.
- germiness — the state of being germy
- germiston — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- germplasm — Alternative spelling of germ plasm.
- gilgamesh — a legendary Sumerian king, the hero of Sumerian and Babylonian epics.
- gladsheim — the golden palace of Odin, of which Valhalla was a part.
- glamorise — (British spelling, Irish, South African, Australian and NZ) alternative spelling of glamorize.
- glomerous — (obsolete) Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass.
- gloomiest — Superlative form of gloomy.
- gnu emacs — Emacs
- gomphoses — an immovable articulation in which one bone or part is received in a cavity in another, as a tooth in its socket.
- goosebump — The bumps on a person's skin, at the base of body hair, which may involuntarily develop when a person is cold or experiences strong emotions.
- gosperism — /gos'p*r-izm/ A hack, invention, or saying due to arch-hacker R. William (Bill) Gosper. This notion merits its own term because there are so many of them. Many of the entries in HAKMEM are Gosperisms. See also life.
- gossamere — Obsolete form of gossamer.
- gossamers — Plural form of gossamer.
- gossamery — a fine, filmy cobweb seen on grass or bushes or floating in the air in calm weather, especially in autumn.
- graphemes — Plural form of grapheme.
- gravamens — Plural form of gravamen.
- gravesham — a borough in NW Kent, in SE England.
- greedsome — greedy
- greensome — a match for two pairs in which each of the four players tees off and after selecting the better drive the partners of each pair play that ball alternately
- griminess — The characteristic or quality of being grimy.