15-letter words containing g, o, m, p, a
- haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- holding company — a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations (distinguished from parent company).
- human geography — the study of the interaction between human beings and their environment in particular places and across spatial areas.
- human megaphone — the technique of using a crowd of people to repeat a speaker's words in unison
- hump one's swag — (of a tramp) to carry one's belongings from place to place on one's back
- humphrey bogart — Humphrey (DeForest) ("Bogie"or"Bogey") 1899–57, U.S. motion-picture actor.
- hyetometrograph — an instrument used to record rainfall
- hypomagnesaemia — the condition of having too little magnesium in the blood, particularly in cattle, in which it is also known as lactation tetany
- immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
- imperial gallon — a British gallon used in liquid and dry measurement equivalent to 1.2 U.S. gallons, or 4.54 liters.
- king's champion — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
- leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
- loading program — a series of instructions entered automatically in a program that starts the processing.
- logging company — a company that fells trees and sells timber
- long parliament — the Parliament that assembled November 3, 1640, was expelled by Cromwell in 1653, reconvened in 1659, and was dissolved in 1660.
- lymphogranuloma — any of certain diseases characterized by granulomatous lesions of lymph nodes.
- macrophotograph — a photograph taken at very close range
- macrosporangium — megasporangium.
- magnetoreceptor — The part of an organism responsible for magnetoreception.
- main-topgallant — the main-topgallantmast, its sail, or its yard.
- malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
- malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
- mass psychology — the study of the behavior of large groups of people.
- massage parlour — A massage parlour is a place where people go and pay for a massage. Some places that are called massage parlours are in fact places where people pay to have sex.
- measuring spoon — a spoon for measuring amounts, as in cooking, usually part of a set of spoons of different sizes.
- megacorporation — a giant company formed from two or more large companies or a number of companies of various sizes.
- megagametophyte — the female gametophyte in seed plants.
- mess of pottage — a material gain involving the sacrifice of a higher value
- microangiopathy — any disease of the small blood vessels.
- micropegmatitic — relating to, or designating, a microscopic pegmatitic structure
- microphotograph — microfilm (def 1).
- microradiograph — an enlarged version of an image obtained by a form of radiography that reveals minute details
- microsporangium — a sporangium containing microspores.
- microtopography — microrelief.
- moo goo gai pan — a dish of sliced chicken stir-fried with button mushrooms and, often, assorted vegetables.
- morning prayers — early-morning act of religious worship
- morphologically — the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.
- nitramino group — the univalent group –NHNO 2 .
- opencast mining — mining by excavating from the surface
- opening batsman — a player who bats the first ball in cricket
- ophthalmologist — a doctor of medicine specializing in ophthalmology.
- ophthalmoplegia — Paralysis of the muscles within or surrounding the eye.
- optical pumping — a method for increasing the number of atoms or molecules occupying higher energy levels by irradiating them with light of the proper frequencies to raise them to those levels.
- opus anglicanum — fine embroidery, esp of church vestments, produced in England c.1200–c.1350; characterized by the rich materials used, esp silver gilt thread
- overemphasizing — Present participle of overemphasize.
- overprogramming — the act or instance of programming unnecessary details
- palaeolimnology — the study of ancient lake ecologies
- palaeomagnetism — the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks, used to determine the past configurations of the continents and to investigate the past shape and magnitude of the earth's magnetic field
- palaeomagnetist — a student of or expert in palaeomagnetism
- panoramic sight — an artillery sight that can be rotated horizontally in a full circle.