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12-letter words containing m, l, a

  • funambulists — Plural form of funambulist.
  • fundamentals — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • funeral home — an establishment where the dead are prepared for burial or cremation, where the body may be viewed, and where funeral services are sometimes held.
  • galactometer — a lactometer.
  • galactosemia — an inherited disorder characterized by the inability to metabolize galactose and requiring a galactose-free diet to avoid consequent mental retardation and eye, spleen, and liver abnormalities.
  • galvanometer — an instrument for detecting the existence of small electric currents and determining their strength.
  • galvanometry — the method or process of determining the strength of electric currents.
  • gamal nasser — Gamal Abdel [guh-mahl ab-doo l,, juh-] /gəˈmɑl ˈæb dʊl,, dʒə-/ (Show IPA), 1918–70, Egyptian military and political leader: prime minister of Egypt 1954–56; president of Egypt 1956–58; president of the United Arab Republic 1958–70.
  • gambling den — a building operating as a business where money can be staked on playing games of chance
  • gambling man — adult male who gambles
  • gambrel roof — a gable roof, each side of which has a shallower slope above a steeper one. Compare mansard (def 1).
  • game console — Also called game(s) console, gaming console, video-game console. a computer system specially made for playing video games by connecting it to a television or other display for video and sound.
  • gaming table — a table used for gambling, especially one designed with a game board and slots for chips.
  • gamopetalous — having the petals united.
  • gamophyllous — having leaves united by their edges.
  • gamosepalous — having the sepals united.
  • gangliectomy — (medicine) Excision of a ganglion; surgical removal of a mass of tissue.
  • garam masala — an aromatic mixture of ground spices used in Indian cookery, usually containing black pepper, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, coriander, nutmeg, and turmeric.
  • gastric mill — a gizzard in decapod crustaceans, as lobsters, crabs, and shrimps, having an arrangement of teeth and small bones for grinding food and bristles for filtering small particles.
  • gastrodermal — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
  • gelande jump — jump made in downhill skiing
  • gelatiniform — Having the form of gelatin.
  • genoa salami — a hard, garlic-flavored salami of pork and veal or, especially in the U.S., pork and beef.
  • geothermally — By geothermal means, especially by means of geothermal energy.
  • germanophile — a person who is friendly toward or admires or studies Germany or German culture.
  • giant fulmar — either of two large white or brownish petrels of the genus Macronectes, of the Antarctic Ocean and adjacent seas.
  • giant slalom — a slalom race in which the course has more gates and is longer and steeper than that in a regular slalom.
  • gila monster — a large, venomous lizard, Heloderma suspectum, of the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico, covered with beadlike scales of yellow, orange, and black.
  • glacial meal — finely ground rock material produced by the grinding action of a glacier on its bed.
  • glacial milk — waters of a glacial stream in which particles of light-colored silt are suspended.
  • glacier milk — water flowing in a stream from the snout of a glacier and containing particles of rock
  • gladsomeness — (archaic) gladness.
  • glamour girl — a girl or woman whose appearance or lifestyle is considered glamorous by popular standards.
  • glamour puss — a person with an unusually attractive face.
  • glamour-puss — a person with an unusually attractive face.
  • glaucomatous — Ophthalmology. abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye, most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains (open-angle glaucoma or chronic glaucoma) or by pressure of the iris against the lens, which traps the aqueous humor (angle-closure glaucoma or acute glaucoma)
  • glenohumeral — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the glenoid fossa and the humerus.
  • glioblastoma — A highly invasive glioma in the brain.
  • glossematics — a school of linguistic analysis developed by Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) in Copenhagen in the 1930s based on the study of the distribution of glossemes.
  • godzillagram — (networking)   /god-zil'*-gram/ (From Japan's national hero and datagram) 1. A network packet that in theory is a broadcast to every machine in the universe. The typical case is an IP datagram whose destination IP address is [255.255.255.255]. Fortunately, few gateways are foolish enough to attempt to implement this case! 2. A network packet of maximum size. An IP Godzillagram has 65,536 octets. Compare super source quench.
  • gold farming — the practice of selling virtual assets gained in a computer game for real money
  • gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.
  • governmental — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • graham flour — unbolted wheat flour, containing all of the wheat grain; whole-wheat flour.
  • graham's law — the principle that the rates of diffusion and effusion of a gas are inversely proportional to the square root of its density, proposed by Thomas Graham (1805-69) in 1831
  • gram calorie — calorie (def 1a). Abbreviation: g-cal.
  • grammatology — the scientific study of systems of writing.
  • grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
  • grass family — the large plant family Gramineae (or Poaceae), characterized by mostly herbaceous but sometimes woody plants with hollow and jointed stems, narrow sheathing leaves, petalless flowers borne in spikelets, and fruit in the form of seedlike grain, and including bamboo, sugar cane, numerous grasses, and cereal grains such as barley, corn, oats, rice, rye, and wheat.
  • gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
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