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12-letter words containing g, o, d, m, a

  • gold farming — the practice of selling virtual assets gained in a computer game for real money
  • gordian worm — nematomorph.
  • gormandising — Present participle of gormandise.
  • gormandizers — gourmandise1 .
  • gormandizing — Present participle of gormandize.
  • 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.
  • gourmandizer — One who gourmandizes.
  • grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
  • gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
  • hamming code — (algorithm)   Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
  • high command — the leadership or highest authority of a military command or other organization.
  • homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
  • hypogonadism — diminished hormonal or reproductive functioning in the testes or the ovaries.
  • infrakingdom — (taxonomy) A taxonomic category sometimes inserted below subkingdom.
  • kingdom hall — a meeting place of Jehovah's Witnesses for religious services.
  • loading ramp — a ramp that is used for loading a ship
  • magnoliopsid — (botany) a member of the class Magnoliopsida. Circumscription of this class will vary with the taxonomic system being used.
  • male bonding — the process by which two or more men or boys become emotionally attached to each another
  • managed code — (operating system)   Code that is executed by the .NET common language runtime (CLR). VB.NET code is always managed code but C++ .NET can optionally use unmanaged code. Managed code provides metadata allowing the CLR to manage security (role-based as well as new approaches to code access security). The CLR also handles errors, manages the program stack and finds methods in assembly modules. Managed data is memory that's subject to garbage collection. There are additional restrictions to permit interoperability of different languages, for example, Visual Basic arrays must be zero-based.
  • mcleod gauge — a device for determining very low gas pressures by manometrically measuring the pressure of a sample after its compression to a known fraction of its original volume.
  • meadow grass — any grass of the genus Poa, especially P. pratensis, the Kentucky bluegrass.
  • medico-legal — pertaining to medicine and law or to forensic medicine.
  • megalocardia — hypertrophy of the heart.
  • mekong delta — the delta of the Mekong River in Vietnam.
  • messageboard — Alternative spelling of message board.
  • micromanaged — Simple past tense and past participle of micromanage.
  • mimeographed — Simple past tense and past participle of mimeograph.
  • misdiagnosed — Simple past tense and past participle of misdiagnose.
  • misdiagnoses — to make an incorrect diagnosis.
  • misdiagnosis — an incorrect diagnosis.
  • mockingboard — (hardware)   A sound and speech board for the Apple II computer, on sale in 1978. See also zxnrbl.
  • modularizing — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
  • monkey gland — the testicle of an ape or monkey, said to have a revitalizing effect on humans when administered by grafting or adding the essence to the bloodstream
  • moon landing — the act of landing on the moon
  • muddle along — If you muddle along, you live or exist without a proper plan or purpose in your life.
  • non-damaging — causing or capable of causing damages; harmful; injurious.
  • non-dogmatic — relating to or of the nature of a dogma or dogmas or any strong set of principles concerning faith, morals, etc., as those laid down by a church; doctrinal: We hear dogmatic arguments from both sides of the political spectrum.
  • nondemanding — not demanding
  • old guardism — political conservatism.
  • organic mode — (programming)   A term used by COCOMO to describe a project that is developed in a familiar, stable environment. The product is similar to previously developed products. Most people connected with the project have extensive experience in working with related systems and have a thorough understanding of the project. The project contains a minimum of innovative data processing architectures or algorithms. The product requires little innovation and is relatively small, rarely greater than 50,000 DSIs.
  • oxidant smog — photochemical smog.
  • ping command — ping
  • pot marigold — calendula (def 1).
  • propagandism — the art, system, or use of propaganda
  • pyramidology — a belief system based on the supposed occult significance of the Egyptian pyramids
  • reading room — a room set aside for reading, as in a library or club.
  • road manager — The road manager of someone such as a singer or sports player is the person who organizes their travel and other arrangements during a tour.
  • single modal — modal (def 3).
  • smallholding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
  • tragi-comedy — A tragi-comedy is a play or other written work that is both sad and amusing.
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