9-letter words containing m, i, s, g
- famishing — Present participle of famish.
- fastigium — the highest point of a fever or disease; the period of greatest development of an infection.
- filmgoers — Plural form of filmgoer.
- flamingos — Plural form of flamingo.
- fumblings — Plural form of fumbling.
- fumigants — Plural form of fumigant.
- gaelicism — a word, phrase or idiom peculiar to the Gaelic language
- gallicism — a French idiom or expression used in another language, as Je ne sais quoi when used in English.
- galvanism — Electricity. electricity, especially as produced by chemical action.
- gambrinus — a mythical Flemish king, the reputed inventor of beer.
- game fish — an edible fish capable of affording sport to the angler in its capture.
- ganderism — foolish behaviour
- gandhiism — the principles associated with Mohandas Gandhi, especially his principles of noncooperation and passive resistance in gaining political and social reforms.
- gargarism — (obsolete) Something used to gargle with; a gargle.
- gasconism — the quality of being boastful; boastfulness
- gelsemine — a bitter crystalline alkaloid obtained from the yellow jasmine vine (Gelsemium sempervirens)
- gelsemium — the dried rhizome and root of yellow jasmine, formerly used as a sedative in the form of a powder, tincture, or fluid extract.
- gemfishes — Plural form of gemfish.
- geminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of geminate.
- gemminess — the state or quality of being gemmy or gemlike
- genderism — The belief that gender is a binary, comprising male and female, and that the aspects of a person's gender are inherently linked to their sex at birth.
- gentilism — the quality of being a gentile, especially heathenism; paganism.
- geomatics — The discipline of gathering, storing, processing, and delivering geographic information.
- geonomics — a doctrine holding that humans own what is created by them, but that those things found in nature, such as land, belong to no one person but instead belong equally to all mankind
- geraniums — Plural form of geranium.
- germanism — a usage, idiom, or other feature that is characteristic of the German language.
- germanist — a specialist in the study of German culture, literature, or linguistics.
- germinals — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the seventh month of the year, extending from March 21 to April 19.
- germiness — the state of being germy
- germiston — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- gigantism — abnormally great development in size or stature of the whole body or of parts of the body, most often due to dysfunction of the pituitary gland.
- gilgamesh — a legendary Sumerian king, the hero of Sumerian and Babylonian epics.
- gimcracks — Plural form of gimcrack.
- ginglymus — a joint in which movement is limited to one plane.
- ginormous — extremely large; huge.
- gladsheim — the golden palace of Odin, of which Valhalla was a part.
- glamorise — (British spelling, Irish, South African, Australian and NZ) alternative spelling of glamorize.
- glimpsing — Present participle of glimpse.
- gloamings — Plural form of gloaming.
- globalism — the attitude or policy of placing the interests of the entire world above those of individual nations.
- gloomiest — Superlative form of gloomy.
- goldsmith — Oliver, 1730?–74, Irish poet, playwright, essayist, and novelist.
- gomphosis — an immovable articulation in which one bone or part is received in a cavity in another, as a tooth in its socket.
- gongorism — imitation of the ornate and intricate style of Góngora y Argote.
- gosperism — /gos'p*r-izm/ A hack, invention, or saying due to arch-hacker R. William (Bill) Gosper. This notion merits its own term because there are so many of them. Many of the entries in HAKMEM are Gosperisms. See also life.
- gothicism — conformity or devotion to the gothic style in the arts.
- grampians — a region in E Scotland. 3361 sq. mi. (8704 sq. km).
- griminess — The characteristic or quality of being grimy.
- gristmill — a mill for grinding grain, especially the customer's own grain.
- grumpiest — surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy.