13-letter words containing m, i, s, g
- goose pimples — Goose pimples are the same as goose bumps.
- gossip column — newspaper: celebrity news article
- gossipmongers — Plural form of gossipmonger.
- gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
- graham island — an island in the Pacific Ocean, in W British Columbia, Canada: largest and northernmost of the Queen Charlotte Islands. 2485 sq. mi. (6436 sq. km).
- grain sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as durra or milo, having starchy seeds, grown for grain and forage.
- gram-positive — (of bacteria) retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
- graminicolous — (esp of parasitic fungi) living on grass
- graminivorous — feeding or subsisting on grass: a graminivorous bird.
- grantsmanship — skill in securing grants, as for research, from federal agencies, foundations, or the like.
- great grimsby — seaport in Humberside, NE England, at the mouth of the Humber estuary: county district pop. 91,000
- grimes golden — a yellow variety of apple that ripens in late autumn.
- grimes graves — an area of Neolithic flint mines in Suffolk, England, comprising more than 300 mine shafts and galleries.
- gross premium — A gross premium is the total premium of an insurance contract before brokerage or discounts have been deducted.
- guessing game — a situation in which conjectures must be made because information is not available or forthcoming
- guesstimating — Present participle of guesstimate.
- guesstimation — (pejorative) An estimation made without good justification and often biased.
- gymnastically — In a gymnastic manner.
- gynaecomastia — abnormal overdevelopment of the breasts in a man
- gynomonoecism — the condition of having female flowers and also flowers that have a pistil and stamen on the same plant
- gyromagnetism — the condition or state of being gyromagnetic
- haematologist — A scientist, usually a medical doctor, who specializes in haematology.
- hellgrammites — Plural form of hellgrammite (Alternative spelling of hellgramites).
- hematogenesis — hematopoiesis.
- hematologists — Plural form of hematologist.
- histaminergic — releasing histamine
- histogramming — (mathematics) The construction of histograms.
- home shopping — buying items via tv or internet
- home straight — the section of a racecourse forming the approach to the finish
- homeschooling — a school set up in the home.
- homogeneities — Plural form of homogeneity.
- house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
- ignominiously — marked by or attended with ignominy; discreditable; humiliating: an ignominious retreat.
- illegitimizes — illegitimatize.
- image formats — (graphics, file format) There are many formats used to store images in files. GIF, TIFF and JPEG are very common. Others are BIFF, bmp, Clear, FITS, IFF, NFF, OFF, PCX, PNG, TGA, XBM. Some of these are documented on-line at the following sites:
- imaginariness — The state of being imaginary.
- imagistically — (often initial capital letter) a theory or practice of a group of poets in England and America between 1909 and 1917 who believed that poetry should employ the language of common speech, create new rhythms, have complete freedom in subject matter, and present a clear, concentrated, and precise image.
- immunogenesis — the production of an immune response
- impersonating — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- impoverishing — Present participle of impoverish.
- improgressive — (archaic) Not progressive.
- in god's name — If someone uses such expressions as what in God's name, why in God's name, or how in God's name, they are emphasizing how angry, annoyed, or surprised they are.
- infringements — Plural form of infringement.
- inhomogeneous — lack of homogeneity.
- instrumenting — Present participle of instrument.
- inter-segment — one of the parts into which something naturally separates or is divided; a division, portion, or section: a segment of an orange.
- ironmongeries — a hardware store or business.
- isoamyl group — the univalent group C 5 H 11 .
- james gosling — (person) The software engineer who wrote GOSMACS, and served as Sun Microsystems, Inc. project leader for both NeWS, and Java. He is currently (1997) a Vice President and "Distinguished Engineer" at Sun.