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14-letter words containing g, u, n, m

  • extinguishment — The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
  • fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
  • final judgment — judgment (def 8).
  • foramen magnum — the large opening in the base of the skull forming the passage from the cranial cavity to the spinal canal.
  • fragrant sumac — a sprawling shrub, Rhus aromatica, of the cashew family, native to eastern North America, having aromatic foliage and greenish-yellow flowers in small spikes.
  • framing square — a steel square usually having on its faces various tables and scales useful to the carpenter.
  • gallamine blue — a type of mordant dye
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
  • gamma function — a function defined by Γ(x) = ∫0∞tx–1e–tdt, where x is real and greater than zero
  • gamma globulin — a protein fraction of blood plasma that responds to stimulation of antigens, as bacteria or viruses, by forming antibodies: administered therapeutically in the treatment of some viral diseases.
  • gaussian image — the point in an optical system with spherical aberration at which the paraxial rays meet.
  • generic markup — (text)   In computerised document preparation, a method of adding information to the text indicating the logical components of a document, such as paragraphs, headers or footnotes. SGML is an example of such a system. Specific instructions for layout of the text on the page do not appear in the markup.
  • george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
  • gerald sussman — (person)   (Gerald J. Sussman, Jerry) A noted hacker at MIT and one of the developers of SCHEME and 6.001.
  • gewurztraminer — a type of white grape used in winemaking.
  • glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
  • glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
  • go up in smoke — the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
  • granny dumping — the abandonment of an elderly person, especially a relative, at a hospital, bus station, etc.
  • granulomatosis — any disease characterized by the formation of numerous granulomas.
  • ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
  • guantanamo bay — a bay on the SE coast of Cuba.
  • guarantee form — a document that spells out the terms of a legally binding guarantee
  • gulf of mannar — the part of the Indian Ocean between SE India and the island of Sri Lanka: pearl fishing
  • gulf of panama — a wide inlet of the Pacific in Panama
  • gum tragacanth — tragacanth.
  • gum turpentine — turpentine (sense 2)
  • gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
  • gynomonoecious — having both female and hermaphrodite flowers on the same plant.
  • haemagglutinin — Alternative spelling of hemagglutinin.
  • hemagglutinate — to cause the clumping of red blood cells in
  • hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • housing market — property trade
  • housing scheme — arrangement offering subsidized housing
  • huffman coding — (algorithm)   A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
  • illuminatingly — In an illuminating manner.
  • image-building — improving the brand image or public image of something or someone by good public relations, advertising, etc
  • imaginary unit — the complex number i.
  • immunoblotting — The use of immunoblots to analyse proteins.
  • immunogenetics — the branch of immunology dealing with the study of immunity in relation to genetic makeup.
  • immunogenicity — causing or capable of producing an immune response.
  • immunoglobulin — any of several classes of structurally related proteins that function as antibodies or receptors and are found in plasma and other body fluids and in the membrane of certain cells. Compare IgA, IgD, IgE, IgG, IgM.
  • immunostaining — (uncountable, immunology) Any of several staining techniques that are used to detect specific proteins.
  • impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
  • judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
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