12-letter words containing m, a, n, g, e
- geometrician — a person skilled in geometry.
- george meany — George, 1894–1980, U.S. labor leader: 3rd president of the AFL 1952–55; 1st president of the AFL-CIO 1955–79.
- german ocean — an arm of the Atlantic between Great Britain and the European mainland. About 201,000 sq. mi. (520,600 sq. km); greatest depth, 1998 feet (610 meters).
- german sixth — (in musical harmony) an augmented sixth chord having a major third and a perfect fifth between the root and the augmented sixth
- germanophile — a person who is friendly toward or admires or studies Germany or German culture.
- germanophobe — a person who hates or fears Germany, Germans, or German culture.
- germinations — Plural form of germination.
- gerrymanders — Plural form of gerrymander.
- gila monster — a large, venomous lizard, Heloderma suspectum, of the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico, covered with beadlike scales of yellow, orange, and black.
- gladsomeness — (archaic) gladness.
- glenohumeral — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the glenoid fossa and the humerus.
- gnathostomes — Plural form of gnathostome.
- gormandizers — gourmandise1 .
- gourmandizer — One who gourmandizes.
- governmental — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- graeco-roman — of or having both Greek and Roman characteristics: the Greco-Roman influence.
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- graminivores — Plural form of graminivore.
- grand master — the head of a military order of knighthood, a lodge, fraternal order, or the like.
- grandmasters — Plural form of grandmaster.
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- graven image — an idol.
- green manure — a crop of growing plants, as clover and other nitrogen-fixing plants, plowed under to enrich the soil.
- greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- greenmarkets — Plural form of greenmarket.
- gregarianism — the practice of living or clustering together in crowds or flocks
- gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
- gum-benjamin — Also called gum benjamin, gum benzoin. a reddish-brown, aromatic balsamic resin occurring in almondlike fragments and having a vanillalike odor, obtained from trees of the genus Styrax, especially S. benzoin, of Java, Sumatra, etc.: used in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics and in medicine internally as an expectorant and externally as an antiseptic.
- gynecomastia — abnormal enlargement of the breast in a male.
- gyromagnetic — of or relating to the magnetic properties of a rotating charged particle.
- haemogenesis — Haematopoiesis.
- halogen lamp — a gas-filled, high-intensity incandescent lamp having a tungsten filament and containing a small amount of a halogen, such as iodine, that vaporizes on heating and redeposits any evaporated tungsten particles back onto the filament: used especially in motion-picture projectors and automobile headlights.
- hamming code — (algorithm) Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
- heartwarming — gratifying; rewarding; satisfying: a heartwarming response to his work.
- heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
- hemangiomata — See under angioma.
- hematogenous — originating in the blood.
- hemorrhaging — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
- home banking — a system whereby a person at home or in an office can use a computer with a modem to call up information from a bank or to transfer funds electronically
- home staging — the professional service of preparing homes for sale in such a way as to appeal to potential buyers and generate higher selling prices: Realtors who encourage sellers to invest in home staging are reporting substantial monetary returns—for both themselves and their clients.
- homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- homologumena — the books in the New Testament generally held as authoritative and canonical by the early church.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- human genome — genetic code of human beings
- hunger march — a procession of protest or demonstration by the unemployed
- imagineering — the implementing of creative ideas into practical form.
- imogene coca — Imogene, 1908–2001, U.S. comic actress.
- impregnating — Present participle of impregnate.
- impregnation — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
- in agreement — of the same opinion