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14-letter words containing g, e, r, m, a, i

  • gerrymandering — U.S. Politics. the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible.
  • gewurztraminer — a type of white grape used in winemaking.
  • grammaticalize — to convert (a content word or part of one) into a functor, as in using OE līc, “body,” as a suffix in adjectives and adverbs, such as OE frēondlīc, “friendly.”.
  • grammaticaster — (derogatory) A pedantic, inferior grammarian.
  • great renaming — (history)   The flag day in 1986 on which all of the non-local groups on the Usenet had their names changed from the net.- format to the current multiple-hierarchies scheme. Used especially in discussing the history of newsgroup names. "The oldest sources group is comp.sources.misc; before the Great Renaming, it was net.sources."
  • great zimbabwe — Formerly Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia. a republic in S Africa: a former British colony and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence 1980. 150,330 sq. mi. (389,362 sq. km). Capital: Harare.
  • gregorian mode — church mode.
  • group marriage — (among primitive peoples) a form of marriage in which a group of males is united with a group of females to form a single conjugal unit.
  • guided imagery — a relaxation technique in which words, sounds, etc., are used to evoke positive mental images, feelings, and thoughts.
  • heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
  • heidelberg man — the primitive human being reconstructed from the Heidelberg jaw.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • hierogrammatic — of or relating to a hierogram
  • housing market — property trade
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hyperglycaemia — an abnormally high level of glucose in the blood.
  • hyperglycaemic — Alternative spelling of hyperglycemic.
  • image orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.
  • imparidigitate — having an odd number of fingers on each limb
  • imperial eagle — a brown eagle, Aquila heliaca, of Asia and southern Europe: the subspecies A. heliaca adalberti is endangered.
  • impregnability — strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable: an impregnable fort.
  • inner mongolia — an administrative division in NE China, adjoining the Mongolian People's Republic. 174,000 sq. mi. (450,660 sq. km). Capital: Hohhot.
  • intermediating — to act as an intermediary; intervene; mediate.
  • intermigration — reciprocal migration; interchange of habitat by migrating groups.
  • intersegmental — of, relating to, or characterized by segments or segmentation.
  • jamaica ginger — an alcoholic extract of ginger used as a flavoring.
  • joint mortgage — a loan of money from a bank or building society to buy a house which two or more people are jointly responsible for repaying
  • kilogram-force — a meter-kilogram-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity, when acting on a mass of one kilogram. Abbreviation: kgf.
  • kilogram-meter — a meter-kilogram-second unit of work or energy, equal to the work done by a force of one kilogram when its point of application moves through a distance of one meter in the direction of the force; approximately 7.2 foot-pounds. Abbreviation: kg-m.
  • knight templar — Templar.
  • laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
  • lathing hammer — a hatchet having a small hammer face for trimming and nailing wooden lath.
  • lemon geranium — a garden geranium, Pelargonium crispum, having lemon-scented leaves.
  • lemongrass oil — an aromatic oil made from lemon grass and used in aromatherapy, as a pesticide, and as a preservative
  • life-affirming — A life-affirming activity or attitude emphasizes the positive aspects of life.
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • logic emulator — A system of FPGAs, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, such as a microprocessor. An emulated design can be connected into the target system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an integrated circuit.
  • lower michigan — the southern part of Michigan, S of the Strait of Mackinac.
  • luminous range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible in clear weather, disregarding interference from obstructions and from the curvature of the earth and depending on the power of the light.
  • macromarketing — marketing concerning all marketing as a whole, marketing systems, and the mutual effect that society and marketing systems have on each other
  • magistral line — the line from which the position of the other lines of fieldworks is determined.
  • magnetic chart — a chart showing the magnetic properties of a portion of the earth's surface, as dip, variation, and intensity.
  • magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
  • magnetic north — north as indicated by a magnetic compass, differing in most places from true north.
  • magnetic storm — a temporary disturbance of the earth's magnetic field, induced by radiation and streams of charged particles from the sun.
  • magnetic strip — a strip of magnetic material on which information may be stored, as by an electromagnetic process, for automatic reading, decoding, or recognition by a device that detects magnetic variations on the strip: a credit card with a magnetic strip to prevent counterfeiting.
  • magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
  • mail exchanger — (messaging)   A server running SMTP Message Transfer Agent software that accepts incoming electronic mail and either delivers it locally or forwards it to another server. The mail exchanger to use for a given domain can be discovered by querying DNS for Mail Exchange Records.
  • make a bargain — to agree on terms
  • manuel noriegaManuel Antonio, born 1934, military leader of Panama 1983–89: captured by U.S. forces and sentenced to prison for drug trafficking 1992.
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