11-letter words containing m, a, r, i
- germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
- germinating — Present participle of germinate.
- germination — to begin to grow or develop.
- germinative — capable of germinating, developing, or creating; of or pertaining to germination.
- gimbal-ring — Sometimes, gimbal. a contrivance, consisting of a ring or base on an axis, that permits an object, as a ship's compass, mounted in or on it to tilt freely in any direction, in effect suspending the object so that it will remain horizontal even when its support is tipped.
- gimcrackery — cheap, showy, useless trifles, ornaments, trinkets, etc.
- glamorizing — Present participle of glamorize.
- glamourized — Simple past tense and past participle of glamourize.
- glomerating — Present participle of glomerate.
- glomeration — a glomerate condition; conglomeration.
- 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.
- 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.
- guinea worm — a long, slender roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa.
- gutturalism — The quality of being guttural.
- gymnasiarch — (in ancient Greece) a magistrate who superintended the gymnasia and public games in certain cities.
- gymnorhinal — (of a bird) having the nostrils exposed, not covered by feathers.
- h-r diagram — Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.
- haematocrit — Alternative spelling of hematocrit.
- haemorrhoid — (UK) alternative spelling of hemorrhoid.
- hallmarking — Present participle of hallmark.
- halomorphic — containing or resulting from the presence of neutral salts or alkaline salts or the presence of both
- hammer mill — a mill for breaking up ore or crushing coal.
- hammersmith — a borough of Greater London, England.
- hammerstein — Oscar, 1847?–1919, U.S. theatrical manager, born in Germany.
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- hard dinkum — hard work; a difficult task.
- harmolodics — the technique of each musician in a group simultaneously improvising around the melodic and rhythmic patterns in a tune, rather than one musician improvising on its underlying harmonic pattern while the others play an accompaniment