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12-letter words containing g, u, a, m, n

  • ivy geranium — a trailing geranium, Pelargonium peltatum, of southern Africa, having a fleshy stem that becomes woody with age, glossy, ivy-shaped leaves, and clusters of flowers ranging from white to deep rose in color.
  • judgment day — the day of the Last Judgment; doomsday.
  • judgmentally — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
  • jumping bean — the seed of any of certain Mexican plants of the genera Sebastiania and Sapium, of the spurge family: the movements of a moth larva inside the seed cause it to move about or jump.
  • jumping hare — springhare.
  • jumping jack — a toy consisting of a jointed figure that is made to jump, move, or dance by pulling a string or stick attached to it.
  • jumpstarting — Present participle of jumpstart.
  • karnaugh map — A Karnaugh map is a pictorial method used to minimize Boolean expressions without having to use Boolean algebra theorems.
  • kim dae jung — 1925–2009, president of South Korea 1998–2003.
  • lake managua — a lake in W Nicaragua: drains into Lake Nicaragua by the Tipitapa River. Length: 61 km (38 miles). Width: about 26 km (16 miles)
  • languishment — the act or state of languishing.
  • lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
  • 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.
  • magic number — the atomic number or neutron number of an exceptionally stable nuclide.
  • magnetopause — the boundary between the earth's magnetosphere and interplanetary space, about 40,000 miles (65,000 km) above the earth, marked by an abrupt decrease in the earth's magnetic induction.
  • magniloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful.
  • magnus annus — the Great Year: a cycle of years, usually a thousand, that begins with a Golden Age, steadily deteriorates, and ends with a universal catastrophe, either a fire or a flood.
  • magnus hitch — a knot similar to a clove hitch but taking one more turn around the object to which the line is being bent; rolling hitch.
  • mailing tube — an elongated cylinder of cardboard, used for mailing rolled-up papers, magazines, etc.
  • maneuverings — Plural form of maneuvering.
  • mangelwurzel — a variety of the beet Beta vulgaris, cultivated as food for livestock.
  • manipulating — Present participle of manipulate.
  • manoeuvering — Present participle of manoeuver.
  • manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
  • manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
  • mao tse-tung — 1893–1976, Chinese Communist leader: chairman of the People's Republic of China 1949–59; chairman of the Chinese Communist Party 1943–76.
  • masquerading — a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes.
  • masturbating — Present participle of masturbate.
  • meaningfully — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
  • meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
  • menstruating — to undergo menstruation.
  • mesognathous — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
  • message unit — a measure of the duration of and distance covered by local telephone calls, used by telephone companies as a basis for assessing service charges.
  • metagnathous — Ornithology. having the tips of the mandibles crossed, as the crossbills.
  • metalanguage — any language or symbolic system used to discuss, describe, or analyze another language or symbolic system.
  • minimum wage — lowest hourly earnings permitted by law
  • minimum-wage — of or relating to a minimum wage: minimum-wage demands.
  • minor league — professional non-premier sports association
  • minor-league — of or relating to a minor league.
  • misconjugate — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
  • misfeaturing — distorting the features
  • modularizing — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
  • monogamously — In a monogamous manner.
  • mount pisgah — the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan
  • mucilaginous — of, relating to, or secreting mucilage.
  • muddle along — If you muddle along, you live or exist without a proper plan or purpose in your life.
  • mulligatawny — a curry-flavored soup of East Indian origin, made with chicken or meat stock.
  • multi-garnet — A better constraint system for Garnet. Version 2.1 by Michael Sannella <[email protected]>.
  • multiangular — having many angles; polyangular.
  • multicasting — the act or process of a person or thing that casts.
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