16-letter words containing g, e, n, t, a, m
- garden apartment — an apartment on the ground floor of an apartment building having direct access to a backyard or garden.
- garment district — an area in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City, including portions of Seventh Avenue and Broadway between 34th and 40th Streets and the streets intersecting them, that contains many factories, showrooms, etc., related to the design, manufacture, and wholesale distribution of clothing.
- gelatin dynamite — a high explosive consisting of a gelatinized mass of nitroglycerin with cellulose nitrate added.
- gender-normative — cisgender.
- general factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
- genetic material — material that stores genetic information; DNA
- gentleman friend — a man with whom a woman is romantically involved; suitor.
- gentleman-farmer — a man whose wealth or income from other sources permits him to farm for pleasure rather than for basic income.
- governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
- granger movement — a campaign for state control of railroads and grain elevators, especially in the north central states, carried on during the 1870s by members of the Patrons of Husbandry (the Grange) a farmers' organization that had been formed for social and cultural purposes.
- grant-maintained — funded by national government
- hammer and tongs — with great vigor, determination, or vehemence: When he starts a job he goes at it hammer and tongs.
- hamming distance — (data) The minimum number of bits that must be changed in order to convert one bit string into another. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming.
- head arrangement — a roughly outlined musical arrangement that is played from memory and is often learned by ear.
- headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
- hemagglutinating — That causes hemagglutination.
- hemagglutination — the clumping of red blood cells.
- hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
- high-maintenance — needing frequent maintenance or repair: My bike is high-maintenance; this is its third front wheel this month.
- home heating oil — fuel oil for domestic central heating
- horseshoe magnet — a horseshoe-shaped permanent magnet.
- illegitimateness — Quality of being illegitimate.
- image consultant — imagemaker.
- immunohematology — the study of blood and blood-forming tissue in relation to the immune response.
- immunoregulation — (immunology) The control of immune responses between lymphocytes and macrophages.
- immunoregulatory — Of or pertaining to immunoregulation.
- in general terms — generally, approximately
- interior mapping — an open map.
- interlaced image — progressive coding
- investment grant — a direct subsidy made by a government to a business in order to enable it to make further investment
- knitting machine — machine that knits yarn into fabric
- labour agreement — a contract between workers and managers setting out working conditions, wages, etc
- landed immigrant — foreigner: permanent resident
- latent ambiguity — uncertainty that arises when a seemingly clear written instrument is matched against an extrinsic fact, as when a description of something being sold fits two different items.
- legal department — the department that deals with legal matters
- local government — the administration of the civic affairs of a city, town, or district by its inhabitants rather than by the state or country at large.
- lymphangiectasia — (medicine) dilation of the lymphatic vessels.
- lymphangiectasis — Alt form lymphangiectasia.
- magazine section — a magazinelike section in the Sunday editions of many newspapers, containing articles rather than news items and often letters, reviews, stories, puzzles, etc.
- magnesiochromite — (mineral) A chromite species with the formula MgCr2O4.
- magnetic anomaly — a departure from the normal magnetic field of the earth.
- magnetic bearing — the bearing of a point relative to that of the nearest magnetic pole.
- magnetic circuit — the closed path described by magnetic flux. It is analogous to the electric circuit with resistance, where flux, reluctance, and magnetomotive force correspond to electric current, resistance, and electromotive force.
- magnetic compass — a compass having a magnetized needle generally in line with the magnetic poles of the earth.
- magnetic equator — aclinic line.
- magnetic pick-up — a type of record player pick-up in which the stylus moves an iron core in a coil, causing a changing magnetic field that produces the current
- magnetic pyrites — Mineralogy. pyrrhotite.
- magneto-electric — of or relating to the induction of electric current or electromotive force by means of permanent magnets.
- magnetoacoustics — (used with a singular verb) the branch of physics studying the effects of magnetism on acoustics or their interaction.
- magnetochemistry — the study of magnetic and chemical phenomena in their relation to one another.