9-letter words containing m, e, g
- ferrogram — a slide prepared to illustrate the suspended iron particles in the lubricant of a machine
- film gate — (in motion-picture cameras and projectors) a mechanism that holds the film flat in the focal plane of the lens during exposure or projection.
- filmgoers — Plural form of filmgoer.
- flagellum — A slender threadlike structure, especially a microscopic whiplike appendage that enables many protozoa, bacteria, spermatozoa, etc., to swim.
- flame gun — a type of flame-thrower for destroying garden weeds
- flugelman — fugleman.
- fomenting — Present participle of foment.
- foregleam — A gleam or glimpse of the future; foreglimpse.
- fragments — Plural form of fragment.
- fumigated — Simple past tense and past participle of fumigate.
- gaelicism — a word, phrase or idiom peculiar to the Gaelic language
- gain time — delay sth for advantage
- galeiform — helmet-shaped; resembling a galea.
- gall mite — a mite of the family Eriophyidae that feeds on plant juices, damaging buds, leaves, and twigs and causing galls and other deformities.
- gallamine — A particular nondepolarizing muscle relaxant.
- galumphed — Simple past tense and past participle of galumph.
- galumpher — a person or animal that leaps or moves heavily or clumsily
- gamahuche — to practise cunnilingus or fellatio on
- gambadoes — Gamashes; spatterdashes.
- gambolled — to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic.
- game away — to squander or lose in gambling
- game bird — any bird hunted chiefly for sport, as a quail or pheasant, especially such a bird that is protected by game laws.
- game face — a facial expression that suggests a strong determination to succeed
- game fish — an edible fish capable of affording sport to the angler in its capture.
- game fowl — a domestic fowl of a breed much used for fighting.
- game laws — a law enacted for the preservation of game, as by restricting the number and kinds of game that may be taken and by designating periods of the year when specified game may be taken.
- game park — a game preserve, especially in Africa.
- game plan — a carefully thought-out strategy or course of action, as in politics, business, or one's personal affairs.
- game room — a room used for recreation, especially for table games.
- game show — a television or radio program in which contestants answer questions or play games of skill or chance in order to win money or other prizes.
- game tree — (games) A tree representing contingencies in a game. Each node in a game tree represents a possible position (e.g., possible configuration of pieces on a chessboard) in the game, and each branching ("edge" in graph terms) represents a possible move.
- game-ball — (of a person) in perfect health
- game-cock — a rooster of a fighting breed, or one bred and trained for fighting.
- gameboard — A portable surface on which a game is played, and which is marked for play of that game.
- gamecocks — Plural form of gamecock.
- gamesters — Plural form of gamester.
- gameyness — quality of being gamey
- gaminerie — the impish or mischievous behaviour of a gamin or gamine
- ganderism — foolish behaviour
- garageman — a person who works in a garage, as a mechanic or attendant.
- garmented — (poetic) Wearing a garment; attired.
- gas meter — an apparatus for measuring and recording the amount of gas produced or consumed, especially such an apparatus metering the amount of household gas piped into a dwelling.
- gasometer — an apparatus for measuring and storing gas in a laboratory.
- gasometre — (nonstandard, and, now, largely obsolete) Alternative form of gasometer.
- gasometry — the measurement of gases.
- gastraeum — the underside of the body, especially of a bird
- gaudeamus — a university students' gathering or merry-making
- gaugamela — an ancient village in Assyria, E of Nineveh: Alexander the Great defeated Darius III here in 331 b.c. The battle is often mistakenly called “battle of Arbela.”.
- gear pump — lobular pump.
- gell-mann — Murray, born 1929, U.S. physicist: devised a system for classifying elementary particles and postulated theory of quarks; Nobel Prize 1969.