11-letter words containing g, r, i, m, l
- gorilla arm — The side-effect that destroyed touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s. It seems the designers of all those spiffy touch-menu systems failed to notice that humans aren't designed to hold their arms in front of their faces making small motions. After more than a very few selections, the arm begins to feel sore, cramped, and oversized - the operator looks like a gorilla while using the touch screen and feels like one afterward. This is now considered a classic cautionary tale to human-factors designers; "Remember the gorilla arm!" is shorthand for "How is this going to fly in *real* use?".
- gorillagram — a jocular greetings message delivered to someone celebrating a birthday, engagement, etc, by a person dressed as a gorilla
- graminology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of grasses
- grammatical — of or relating to grammar: grammatical analysis.
- granuliform — having a granular structure
- greenmailer — One who greenmails.
- grimacingly — With a grimace.
- grimm's law — the statement of the regular pattern of consonant correspondences presumed to represent changes from Proto-Indo-European to Germanic, according to which voiced aspirated stops became voiced obstruents, voiced unaspirated stops became unvoiced stops, and unvoiced stops became unvoiced fricatives: first formulated in 1820–22 by Jakob Grimm, though the facts had been noted earlier by Rasmus Rask.
- grumblingly — While or as if grumbling.
- gutturalism — The quality of being guttural.
- gymnorhinal — (of a bird) having the nostrils exposed, not covered by feathers.
- hallmarking — Present participle of hallmark.
- hellgramite — The aquatic larval form of the dobsonfly, having a segmented body with legs on each segment, and a head with prominent pincers, prized as fish bait.
- hypermiling — to improve fuel mileage in a motor vehicle, as by adopting certain driving techniques or making design alterations to the vehicle.
- imaginarily — existing only in the imagination or fancy; not real; fancied: an imaginary illness; the imaginary animals in the stories of Dr. Seuss.
- imperilling — Present participle of imperil.
- imploringly — to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat: They implored him to go.
- impregnable — susceptible to impregnation, as an egg.
- impregnably — In an impregnable manner; in a manner to defy attack.
- informingly — In an informing manner.
- integralism — the belief that one's religious convictions should dictate one's political and social actions.
- intermingle — Mix or mingle together.
- kilometrage — The total distance, in kilometres, travelled.
- lagomorphic — Shaped like a hare.
- lammergeier — the largest Eurasian bird of prey, Gypaëtus barbatus, ranging in the mountains from southern Europe to China, having a wingspread of 9 to 10 feet (2.7 to 3 meters) and black feathers hanging from below the bill like a mustache.
- lamotrigine — An anticonvulsant drug used in the treatment of epilepsy.
- lamplighter — a person employed to light and extinguish street lamps, especially those burning gas.
- lampworking — the method or process of producing articles made of glass tubes or rods formed or shaped while softened by the flame of a lamp or blast lamp.
- laryngismus — Laryngospasm.
- legerdemain — sleight of hand.
- legitimator — a person who makes something legitimate
- legitimizer — One who, or that which, legitimizes.
- ley farming — the alternation at intervals of several years of crop growing and grassland pasture
- ligamentary — Of or relating to ligaments.
- light cream — sweet cream with less butterfat than heavy cream.
- light meter — exposure meter.
- light-armed — carrying light weapons: light-armed troops.
- living room — a room in a home used, especially by a family, for leisure activities, entertaining guests, etc.; parlor.
- loading arm — A loading arm is a flexible piping unit that loads and unloads liquids and gases.
- logarithmic — pertaining to a logarithm or logarithms.
- long primer — a 12-point type.
- lumberingly — With heavy, clumsy movements.
- madrigalist — a composer or singer of madrigals.
- magisterial — of, relating to, or befitting a master; authoritative; weighty; of importance or consequence: a magisterial pronouncement by the director of the board.
- magistrally — In a magistral manner; authoritatively; dogmatically.
- magpie lark — a black-and-white pied bird, Grallina cyanoleuca, inhabiting areas near water in Australia and southern New Guinea.
- mail bridge — (messaging) A mail gateway that forwards electronic mail messages between two or more networks if they meet certain administrative criteria.
- malariology — the study of malaria.
- malingerers — Plural form of malingerer.
- malingering — to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.