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12-letter words containing m, i, o, g, r

  • gran turismo — (of an automobile) certified as conforming to the specifications, as fuel capacity and engine displacement, for a class of standard automobiles (Gran Turismo) qualified to engage in various types of competitions. Abbreviation: GTO.
  • gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
  • gravitometer — an instrument that measures specific gravities
  • gravitropism — (biology, botany) a plant's ability to change its growth in response to gravity.
  • gross income — Accounting. total revenue received before any deductions or allowances, as for rent, cost of goods sold, taxes, etc.
  • gross margin — the difference between total revenue and the cost of goods sold
  • gyromagnetic — of or relating to the magnetic properties of a rotating charged particle.
  • haemorrhagic — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of hemorrhagic.
  • hamartiology — the doctrine of sin in Christian theology
  • hemorrhaging — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
  • hierogrammat — a writer of hierograms.
  • high polymer — a polymer composed of a large number of monomers.
  • hippodroming — (baseball) present participle of hippodrome; Staging games to suit gamblers, especially baseball.
  • hominy grits — grits (def 1).
  • housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • hydroforming — the production of high-octane aromatic compounds for motor fuels by catalytic reforming of naphthas in the presence of hydrogen.
  • hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
  • iambographer — a person who writes iambs
  • immigrations — Plural form of immigration.
  • impregnation — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
  • in good form — fit, healthy
  • in-migration — to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory.
  • income group — a group in a given population having incomes within a certain range
  • infrakingdom — (taxonomy) A taxonomic category sometimes inserted below subkingdom.
  • intromitting — Present participle of intromit.
  • ironmonger's — a shop where articles for the house and garden such as tools, nails, and pans are sold
  • john gilmore — (person)   A noted Unix hacker who cofounded Usenet's anarchic alt.* newsgroup hierarchy with Brian Reid. He also worked on GDB. E-mail: John Gilmore <[email protected]>.
  • karyomapping — a technique for determining whether an embryo has inherited a genetic defect by analysing DNA taken from it and its close relatives
  • kashmir goat — one of a long-haired breed of goat raised in Tibet and the higher elevations of China, the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, and Turkey for its meat, milk, and cashmere wool.
  • keeping room — hall (def 11).
  • king-of-arms — a title of certain of the principal heralds of England and certain other kingdoms empowered by their sovereigns to grant armorial bearings.
  • kremlinology — the study of the government of the former Soviet Union, especially the study of those factors governing its foreign affairs.
  • light bomber — a small airplane designed to carry light bomb loads relatively short distances, especially one having a gross loaded weight of less than 100,000 pounds (45,000 kg).
  • loading ramp — a ramp that is used for loading a ship
  • logical form — the syntactic structure that may be shared by different expressions as abstracted from their content and articulated by the logical constants of a particular logical system, esp the structure of an argument by virtue of which it can be shown to be formally valid. Thus John is tall and thin, so John is tall has the same logical form as London is large and dirty, so London is large, namely P & Q, so P
  • lognormality — the condition of having a natural logarithm with normal distribution
  • logocentrism — a method of literary analysis in which words and language are regarded as a fundamental expression of external reality, excluding nonlinguistic factors such as historical context.
  • long-termism — the tendency to focus attention on long-term gains
  • macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
  • macroglossia — Enlargement or hypertrophy of the tongue.
  • magnitogorsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River, near the boundary between Europe and Asia.
  • mammographic — Of, or pertaining to, mammography.
  • manoeuvering — Present participle of manoeuver.
  • manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
  • marconigraph — (dated) wireless telegraph.
  • mastigophora — a phylum of protozoans comprising nonphotosynthetic, chiefly free-living flagellates: some species are important pathogens of humans and other animals.
  • mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
  • meeting room — venue where discussions are held
  • megalocardia — hypertrophy of the heart.
  • mesogastrium — the mesentery of the embryonic stomach.
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