14-letter words containing m, a, g, i
- genetic marker — any distinct inheritable indicator of identity and ancestry.
- gentian family — the plant family Gentianaceae, typified by herbaceous plants having simple opposite leaves, usually blue flowers with five united petals, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the closed gentian, fringed gentian, centaury, exacum, and marsh pink.
- geodemographic — Of or pertaining to geography and demography.
- geometric mean — the mean of n positive numbers obtained by taking the n th root of the product of the numbers: The geometric mean of 6 and 24 is 12.
- geometric pace — a modern form of a Roman pace, a measure of length taken as 5 feet
- geometrization — the application of geometrical concepts to a different field
- gerrymandering — U.S. Politics. the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible.
- gewurztraminer — a type of white grape used in winemaking.
- ginseng family — the plant family Araliaceae, characterized by often prickly herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having alternate leaves and dense clusters of small, whitish or greenish flowers, and including the devil's-club, ginseng, ivy, schefflera, and wild sarsaparilla.
- glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
- glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
- global dimming — a decrease in the amount of sunlight reaching the surface of the earth, believed to be caused by pollution in the atmosphere
- global warming — an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect.
- glycaemic load — an index indicating the amount of carbohydrate contained in a specified serving of a particular food. It is calculated by multiplying the food's glycaemic index by its carbohydrate content in grams and then dividing by 100
- gold medallist — the winner of competition or race, who is awarded a gold medal
- gonadectomized — Having undergone gonadectomy.
- gone a million — done for; sunk
- good samaritan — a person who gratuitously gives help or sympathy to those in distress. Luke 10:30–37.
- gosling, james — James Gosling
- grammaticality — the state or quality of being grammatical.
- grammaticalize — to convert (a content word or part of one) into a functor, as in using OE līc, “body,” as a suffix in adjectives and adverbs, such as OE frēondlīc, “friendly.”.
- grammaticaster — (derogatory) A pedantic, inferior grammarian.
- grammaticizing — Present participle of grammaticize.
- 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.
- great renaming — (history) The flag day in 1986 on which all of the non-local groups on the Usenet had their names changed from the net.- format to the current multiple-hierarchies scheme. Used especially in discussing the history of newsgroup names. "The oldest sources group is comp.sources.misc; before the Great Renaming, it was net.sources."
- great zimbabwe — Formerly Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia. a republic in S Africa: a former British colony and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence 1980. 150,330 sq. mi. (389,362 sq. km). Capital: Harare.
- gregorian mode — church mode.
- 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 marriage — (among primitive peoples) a form of marriage in which a group of males is united with a group of females to form a single conjugal unit.
- guatemala city — a republic in N Central America. 42,042 sq. mi. (108,889 sq. km).
- guided imagery — a relaxation technique in which words, sounds, etc., are used to evoke positive mental images, feelings, and thoughts.
- haemagglutinin — Alternative spelling of hemagglutinin.
- haematogenesis — (physiology) The origin and development of blood.
- haematological — Alternative spelling of hematological.
- have it coming — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
- heating system — a system that provides heat to a building or number of buildings
- heidelberg man — the primitive human being reconstructed from the Heidelberg jaw.
- 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.
- hierogrammatic — of or relating to a hierogram
- highland games — a meeting in which competitions in sport, piping, and dancing are held: originating in the Highlands of Scotland
- homogenisation — Alternative spelling of homogenization.
- homogenization — to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
- housing market — property trade
- 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.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hyperglycaemia — an abnormally high level of glucose in the blood.