11-letter words containing m, a, g, i
- gliomatosis — excessive growth of neuroglia in the brain or spinal cord
- glomerating — Present participle of glomerate.
- glomeration — a glomerate condition; conglomeration.
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- glutaminase — an enzyme used to treat cancer
- gobsmacking — Causing one to be gobsmacked; astounding, flabbergasting.
- gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
- gonycampsis — abnormal curvature of the knee.
- 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
- gormandized — Simple past tense and past participle of gormandize.
- gormandizer — A person who gormandizes; a glutton or gourmand.
- gormandizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gormandize.
- gossypiboma — (surgery) A gauze or surgical sponge left inside a patient's body during surgery.
- gourmandise — unrestrained enjoyment of fine foods, wines, and the like.
- gourmandism — a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
- gourmandize — to enjoy fine food and drink, especially often and in lavish quantity.
- gradiometer — any instrument used to measure a gradient, as the rate of change of the geomagnetic field. Compare gradient (def 3a).
- graminivore — An herbivorous animal, a grazer, that feeds primarily on grasses.
- graminology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of grasses
- grammarians — Plural form of grammarian.
- grammatical — of or relating to grammar: grammatical analysis.
- grand mufti — a Muslim religious leader.
- granitiform — resembling granite
- granuliform — having a granular structure
- graphomania — The compulsion to write books.
- gravimeters — Plural form of gravimeter.
- gravimetric — of or relating to measurement by weight.
- gravity dam — a dam resisting the pressure of impounded water through its own weight.
- great miami — Miami2 (def 2).
- greenmailer — One who greenmails.
- grim reaper — the personification of death as a man or cloaked skeleton holding a scythe.
- 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.
- guesstimate — to estimate without substantial basis in facts or statistics.
- guestimates — Plural form of guestimate.
- guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
- guinea worm — a long, slender roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa.
- gum disease — dental infection
- gum elastic — rubber1 (def 1).
- gutturalism — The quality of being guttural.
- gymnasiarch — (in ancient Greece) a magistrate who superintended the gymnasia and public games in certain cities.
- gymnastical — Alternative form of gymnastic.
- gymnophobia — An inordinate fear or hatred of being naked, and possibly nudity or nudists and naturists.
- gymnorhinal — (of a bird) having the nostrils exposed, not covered by feathers.
- h-r diagram — Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.
- haemangioma — Alternative spelling of hemangioma.
- haemoglobin — (protein) alternative spelling of hemoglobin.
- hallmarking — Present participle of hallmark.
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.