9-letter words containing g, o, r, m
- ergometer — An apparatus that measures work or energy expended during a period of physical exercise.
- ergometry — Measurement with an ergometer.
- ergonomic — (especially of workplace design) intended to provide optimum comfort and to avoid stress or injury.
- fathogram — the record made by a sonic depth finder.
- ferrogram — a slide prepared to illustrate the suspended iron particles in the lubricant of a machine
- filmgoers — Plural form of filmgoer.
- fogramity — a fogey or antiquated thing
- foregleam — A gleam or glimpse of the future; foreglimpse.
- form drag — the portion of the resisting force encountered by a body moving through a fluid that is due to the irregularity of shape of the body, reducible to a minimum by streamlining.
- formating — Misspelling of formatting.
- frogmarch — to force (a person) to march with the arms pinioned firmly behind the back.
- frogmouth — any Australian and Oriental bird of the family Podargidae, related to the goatsuckers, having a broad, flattened, froglike mouth.
- fumigator — a person or thing that fumigates.
- fungiform — having the form of a fungus or mushroom.
- galeiform — helmet-shaped; resembling a galea.
- game room — a room used for recreation, especially for table games.
- gameboard — A portable surface on which a game is played, and which is marked for play of that game.
- gasometer — an apparatus for measuring and storing gas in a laboratory.
- gasometre — (nonstandard, and, now, largely obsolete) Alternative form of gasometer.
- gasometry — the measurement of gases.
- gemmiform — shaped like a bud.
- geomancer — divination by geographic features or by figures or lines.
- geometers — Plural form of geometer.
- geometric — of or relating to geometry or to the principles of geometry.
- geometrid — belonging or pertaining to the family Geometridae, comprising slender-bodied, broad-winged moths, the larvae of which are called measuring worms.
- germanous — containing bivalent germanium.
- germiston — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- germproof — not vulnerable to the action or penetration of germs.
- ginormous — extremely large; huge.
- glam rock — a style of rock music of the early 1970s, characterized by the glittery flamboyance and androgynous image of its performers
- glamorgan — a historic county in SE Wales, now part of Mid, South, and West Glamorgan.
- glamorise — (British spelling, Irish, South African, Australian and NZ) alternative spelling of glamorize.
- glamorize — to make glamorous.
- glamorous — full of glamour; charmingly or fascinatingly attractive, especially in a mysterious or magical way.
- glamoured — Simple past tense and past participle of glamour.
- glamourie — Alternative spelling of glamoury.
- glassworm — arrowworm.
- glen more — valley across N Scotland, traversed by the Caledonian Canal: 60 mi (97 km) long
- glomerate — compactly clustered.
- glomerous — (obsolete) Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass.
- glomerule — a cyme condensed into a headlike cluster.
- glomeruli — Irregular plural form of glomerulus.
- glow-worm — the wingless female or larva of the European beetle, Lampyris noctiluca, which emits a sustained greenish light.
- glowworms — Plural form of glowworm.
- go formal — to go dressed in evening clothes
- godmother — a woman who serves as sponsor for a child at baptism.
- goldminer — a person who mines gold or works in a gold mine.
- gongorism — imitation of the ornate and intricate style of Góngora y Argote.
- gosperism — /gos'p*r-izm/ A hack, invention, or saying due to arch-hacker R. William (Bill) Gosper. This notion merits its own term because there are so many of them. Many of the entries in HAKMEM are Gosperisms. See also life.
- gossamere — Obsolete form of gossamer.