16-letter words containing g, u, m
- discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
- distinguishments — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- document imaging — the process of converting paper documents into an electronic or digital format
- drinking-up time — (in Britain) a short time allowed for finishing drinks before closing time in a public house
- drumhead cabbage — acommon type of cabbage with tightly packed leaves and a rounded form with a slightly flattened top
- dynamic language — (language) (Dylan) A simple object-oriented Lisp dialect, most closely resembling CLOS and Scheme, developed by Advanced Technology Group East at Apple Computer. See also Marlais.
- east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- el camino bignum — (humour) /el' k*-mee'noh big'nuhm/ The road mundanely called El Camino Real, a road through the San Francisco peninsula that originally extended all the way down to Mexico City and many portions of which are still intact. Navigation on the San Francisco peninsula is usually done relative to El Camino Real, which defines logical north and south even though it isn't really north-south many places. El Camino Real runs right past Stanford University. The Spanish word "real" (which has two syllables: /ray-al'/) means "royal"; El Camino Real is "the royal road". In the Fortran language, a "real" quantity is a number typically precise to seven significant digits, and a "double precision" quantity is a larger floating-point number, precise to perhaps fourteen significant digits (other languages have similar "real" types). When a hacker from MIT visited Stanford in 1976, he remarked what a long road El Camino Real was. Making a pun on "real", he started calling it "El Camino Double Precision" - but when the hacker was told that the road was hundreds of miles long, he renamed it "El Camino Bignum", and that name has stuck. (See bignum).
- embourgeoisement — (chiefly UK) The taking-up of middle-class attitudes or values; bourgeoisification; the process of becoming affluent.
- emulator program — (networking) (EP) IBM software that emulates a 2701/2/3 hard-wired IBM 360 communications controller and resides in a 370x/372x/374x comms controller. See also Partitioned Emulation Program (PEP).
- feather geranium — a Eurasian weed, Chenopodium botrys, of the amaranth family, having clusters of inconspicuous flowers and unpleasant smelling, lobed leaves.
- flamborough head — a chalk promontory in NE England, on the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire
- flight simulator — a device used in pilot and crew training that provides a cockpit environment and sensations of flight under actual conditions.
- flying ambulance — an aircraft used to take sick or injured people to hospital
- for good measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
- freezing mixture — a mixture of two substances, usually salt and ice, to give a temperature below 0°C
- gallium arsenide — a crystalline and highly toxic semiconductor, GaAs, used in light-emitting diodes, lasers, and electronic devices.
- garlic mushrooms — mushrooms, often pan-fried, cooked with garlic
- gaudeamus igitur — let us therefore rejoice
- general factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
- gentlemen's club — a private social club whose members were traditionally aristocratic males
- george m pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
- gingerbread plum — a tree, Neocarya macrophylla, of western Africa, bearing a large, edible, starchy fruit.
- giuseppe mazzini — Giuseppe [joo-zep-pe] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ/ (Show IPA), 1805–72, Italian patriot and revolutionary.
- global community — the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent
- go out on a limb — say sth daring
- gonzález márquez — Felipe (feˈlipe). born 1942, Spanish statesman; prime minister of Spain (1982–96)
- gossip columnist — a person who writes a gossip column
- government house — the official residence of a colonial governor, as in a British Commonwealth country.
- government issue — (often initial capital letter) issued or supplied by the government or one of its agencies.
- gross misconduct — a proven crime in connection with employment that is serious enough to require dismissal
- gulf of martaban — an inlet of the Bay of Bengal in Myanmar
- gum up the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- gynandromorphous — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
- hamstring injury — an instance of physical damage to a person's hamstring
- have a big mouth — to speak indiscreetly, loudly, or excessively
- headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
- hemagglutinating — That causes hemagglutination.
- hemagglutination — the clumping of red blood cells.
- high-muck-a-muck — an important, influential, or high-ranking person, especially one who is pompous or conceited.
- homeric laughter — loud, hearty laughter, as of the gods.
- huffman encoding — Huffman coding
- hummingbird moth — hawk moth.
- hydraulic mining — placer mining using a pressurized stream of water.
- image consultant — imagemaker.
- imaginary number — Also called imaginary, pure imaginary number. a complex number having its real part equal to zero.
- imago europe plc — A UK Internet provider. There sevice is called Imago On-line. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- immunohematology — the study of blood and blood-forming tissue in relation to the immune response.
- immunoregulation — (immunology) The control of immune responses between lymphocytes and macrophages.