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12-letter words containing g, i, l, m

  • everblooming — (of a plant) blooming repeatedly during the growing season
  • exemplifying — Present participle of exemplify.
  • fanning mill — a machine for winnowing grain by the action of riddles and sieves and an air blast.
  • fibromyalgia — a syndrome characterized by fatigue and chronic pain in the muscles and in tissues surrounding the joints.
  • field magnet — a magnet for producing a magnetic field, as in a particle accelerator or an electric motor.
  • fig marigold — any of various plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, having showy flowers of white, yellow, or pink.
  • file manager — a program that organizes and arranges files in a computer
  • filet mignon — a small, tender round of steak cut from the thick end of a beef tenderloin.
  • film-coating — Film-coating is a process in which a tablet, capsule, or pellet is covered by a thin layer of film to protect it or make it easier to swallow.
  • flagelliform — long, slender, and flexible, like the lash of a whip.
  • flegenheimer — Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") 1902–35, U.S. gangster.
  • flimflamming — Present participle of flimflam.
  • flying lemur — either of two lemurlike mammals, Cynocephalus variegatus, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, or C. volans, of the Philippines, having broad folds of skin on both sides of the body to aid in gliding from tree to tree: now rare.
  • flying mouse — pygmy glider.
  • formal logic — the branch of logic concerned exclusively with the principles of deductive reasoning and with the form rather than the content of propositions.
  • frankalmoign — a form of tenure by which religious bodies held lands, esp on condition of praying for the soul of the donor
  • galactosemia — an inherited disorder characterized by the inability to metabolize galactose and requiring a galactose-free diet to avoid consequent mental retardation and eye, spleen, and liver abnormalities.
  • gambling den — a building operating as a business where money can be staked on playing games of chance
  • gambling man — adult male who gambles
  • gaming table — a table used for gambling, especially one designed with a game board and slots for chips.
  • gangliectomy — (medicine) Excision of a ganglion; surgical removal of a mass of tissue.
  • gastric mill — a gizzard in decapod crustaceans, as lobsters, crabs, and shrimps, having an arrangement of teeth and small bones for grinding food and bristles for filtering small particles.
  • gelatiniform — Having the form of gelatin.
  • genoa salami — a hard, garlic-flavored salami of pork and veal or, especially in the U.S., pork and beef.
  • germanophile — a person who is friendly toward or admires or studies Germany or German culture.
  • giant fulmar — either of two large white or brownish petrels of the genus Macronectes, of the Antarctic Ocean and adjacent seas.
  • giant slalom — a slalom race in which the course has more gates and is longer and steeper than that in a regular slalom.
  • gila monster — a large, venomous lizard, Heloderma suspectum, of the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico, covered with beadlike scales of yellow, orange, and black.
  • glacial meal — finely ground rock material produced by the grinding action of a glacier on its bed.
  • glacial milk — waters of a glacial stream in which particles of light-colored silt are suspended.
  • glacier milk — water flowing in a stream from the snout of a glacier and containing particles of rock
  • glamour girl — a girl or woman whose appearance or lifestyle is considered glamorous by popular standards.
  • glimmeringly — a faint or unsteady light; glimmer.
  • glioblastoma — A highly invasive glioma in the brain.
  • glomerulitis — inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney.
  • glossematics — a school of linguistic analysis developed by Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) in Copenhagen in the 1930s based on the study of the distribution of glossemes.
  • glutethimide — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 13 H 15 NO 2 , used as a hypnotic and sedative.
  • godzillagram — (networking)   /god-zil'*-gram/ (From Japan's national hero and datagram) 1. A network packet that in theory is a broadcast to every machine in the universe. The typical case is an IP datagram whose destination IP address is [255.255.255.255]. Fortunately, few gateways are foolish enough to attempt to implement this case! 2. A network packet of maximum size. An IP Godzillagram has 65,536 octets. Compare super source quench.
  • gold farming — the practice of selling virtual assets gained in a computer game for real money
  • goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
  • goldsmithing — The work of a goldsmith; the forging of gold.
  • gospel music — a now popularized form of impassioned rhythmic spiritual music rooted in the solo and responsive church singing of rural blacks in the American South, central to the development of rhythm and blues and of soul music.
  • gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.
  • gram calorie — calorie (def 1a). Abbreviation: g-cal.
  • grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
  • grass family — the large plant family Gramineae (or Poaceae), characterized by mostly herbaceous but sometimes woody plants with hollow and jointed stems, narrow sheathing leaves, petalless flowers borne in spikelets, and fruit in the form of seedlike grain, and including bamboo, sugar cane, numerous grasses, and cereal grains such as barley, corn, oats, rice, rye, and wheat.
  • gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
  • grimaldi man — a type of Aurignacian man having a negroid appearance, thought to be a race of Cro-Magnon man
  • grimsel pass — an Alpine pass in S Switzerland. 7159 feet (2184 meters) high.
  • gulf of siam — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
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