12-letter words containing g, o, r, m, l
- glamour girl — a girl or woman whose appearance or lifestyle is considered glamorous by popular standards.
- glamour puss — a person with an unusually attractive face.
- glamour-puss — a person with an unusually attractive face.
- glenohumeral — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the glenoid fossa and the humerus.
- glomerulitis — inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney.
- 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
- gormlessness — The state of being gormless.
- 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.
- governmental — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- graham flour — unbolted wheat flour, containing all of the wheat grain; whole-wheat flour.
- gram calorie — calorie (def 1a). Abbreviation: g-cal.
- grammatology — the scientific study of systems of writing.
- gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
- hamartiology — the doctrine of sin in Christian theology
- hemorheology — The science of the rheological (especially flow) properties of the blood.
- high polymer — a polymer composed of a large number of monomers.
- hygrothermal — (physics) Of or pertaining to both humidity and temperature.
- john gilmore — (person) A noted Unix hacker who cofounded Usenet's anarchic alt.* newsgroup hierarchy with Brian Reid. He also worked on GDB. E-mail: John Gilmore <[email protected]>.
- kolyma range — a mountain range in NE Russia, in NE Siberia, extending about 1100 km (700 miles) between the Kolyma River and the Sea of Okhotsk. Highest peak: 1862 m (6109 ft)
- kremlinology — the study of the government of the former Soviet Union, especially the study of those factors governing its foreign affairs.
- large-format — of or relating to a camera with an image area of 5 inches by 4 inches or more
- laryngectomy — excision of part or all of the larynx.
- laryngospasm — An uncontrolled, spasmodic closure of the larynx.
- legal memory — a period of time, now usually established by statute, during which custom, conduct, or a state of affairs must have existed or continued in order for it to have taken on the force of law or to establish a legal right or title not otherwise provable.
- light bomber — a small airplane designed to carry light bomb loads relatively short distances, especially one having a gross loaded weight of less than 100,000 pounds (45,000 kg).
- loading ramp — a ramp that is used for loading a ship
- logical form — the syntactic structure that may be shared by different expressions as abstracted from their content and articulated by the logical constants of a particular logical system, esp the structure of an argument by virtue of which it can be shown to be formally valid. Thus John is tall and thin, so John is tall has the same logical form as London is large and dirty, so London is large, namely P & Q, so P
- lognormality — the condition of having a natural logarithm with normal distribution
- logocentrism — a method of literary analysis in which words and language are regarded as a fundamental expression of external reality, excluding nonlinguistic factors such as historical context.
- long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
- long-termism — the tendency to focus attention on long-term gains
- longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- longshoremen — Plural form of longshoreman.
- luxembourger — a native or inhabitant of Luxembourg.
- lymphography — lymphangiography.
- macroglossia — Enlargement or hypertrophy of the tongue.
- major league — The major leagues are groups of professional sports teams that compete against each other, especially in American baseball.
- major-league — Sports. of, relating to, or characteristic of the major leagues.
- majorleaguer — either of the two main professional baseball leagues in the U.S.
- megalocardia — hypertrophy of the heart.
- melanogaster — Any of several fungi of the genus Melanogaster.
- metallograph — a microscope for observing the microstructure of metals.
- metalorganic — (chemistry) organometallic.
- metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
- meteorologic — Relating to meteorology; meteorological.
- meterologist — Misspelling of meteorologist.
- methyl group — the univalent group CH 3 −, derived from methane.
- metrological — the science of weights and measures.