11-letter words containing m, o, i, r, a
- formularize — formulate.
- formulating — Present participle of formulate.
- formulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- francomania — an obsession with France or French things
- friar minor — a friar belonging to the branch of the Franciscan order that observes the strict rule of St. Francis. Compare capuchin (def 4), Friar Minor Conventual.
- fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
- gamotropism — the tendency of gametes to attract each other
- gastronomic — the art or science of good eating.
- gemmiparous — producing or reproducing by buds or gemmae.
- geometrical — of or relating to geometry or to the principles of geometry.
- germaphobia — Pathological fear of germs.
- germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
- germination — to begin to grow or develop.
- glamorizing — Present participle of glamorize.
- glamourized — Simple past tense and past participle of glamourize.
- glomerating — Present participle of glomerate.
- glomeration — a glomerate condition; conglomeration.
- gorilla arm — The side-effect that destroyed touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s. It seems the designers of all those spiffy touch-menu systems failed to notice that humans aren't designed to hold their arms in front of their faces making small motions. After more than a very few selections, the arm begins to feel sore, cramped, and oversized - the operator looks like a gorilla while using the touch screen and feels like one afterward. This is now considered a classic cautionary tale to human-factors designers; "Remember the gorilla arm!" is shorthand for "How is this going to fly in *real* use?".
- gorillagram — a jocular greetings message delivered to someone celebrating a birthday, engagement, etc, by a person dressed as a gorilla
- gormandized — Simple past tense and past participle of gormandize.
- gormandizer — A person who gormandizes; a glutton or gourmand.
- gormandizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gormandize.
- gourmandise — unrestrained enjoyment of fine foods, wines, and the like.
- gourmandism — a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
- gourmandize — to enjoy fine food and drink, especially often and in lavish quantity.
- gradiometer — any instrument used to measure a gradient, as the rate of change of the geomagnetic field. Compare gradient (def 3a).
- graminivore — An herbivorous animal, a grazer, that feeds primarily on grasses.
- graminology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of grasses
- granitiform — resembling granite
- granuliform — having a granular structure
- graphomania — The compulsion to write books.
- guinea worm — a long, slender roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa.
- gymnorhinal — (of a bird) having the nostrils exposed, not covered by feathers.
- haematocrit — Alternative spelling of hematocrit.
- haemorrhoid — (UK) alternative spelling of hemorrhoid.
- halomorphic — containing or resulting from the presence of neutral salts or alkaline salts or the presence of both
- harmolodics — the technique of each musician in a group simultaneously improvising around the melodic and rhythmic patterns in a tune, rather than one musician improvising on its underlying harmonic pattern while the others play an accompaniment
- harmonicist — Someone who plays the harmonica.
- harmoniphon — an obsolete musical instrument consisting of a mouth tube and keyboard that acts on reeds which vibrate to give a sound similar to an oboe
- harmonising — Present participle of harmonise.
- harmonistic — pertaining to a harmonist or harmony.
- harmonizers — Plural form of harmonizer.
- harmonizing — Present participle of harmonize.
- hemeralopia — a condition of the eyes in which sight is normal in the night or in a dim light but is abnormally poor or wholly absent in the day or in a bright light.
- hemeralopic — (medicine) Unable to see clearly in bright light; day-blind; suffering from hemeralopia.
- hemorrhagic — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
- homographic — a word of the same written form as another but of different meaning and usually origin, whether pronounced the same way or not, as bear 1 “to carry; support” and bear 2 “animal” or lead 1 “to conduct” and lead 2 “metal.”.
- honorariums — Plural form of honorarium.
- honourarium — Nonstandard spelling of honorarium.
- hyperoxemia — abnormal acidity of the blood.