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11-letter words containing m, o, r, l

  • gold-rimmed — Gold-rimmed glasses have gold-coloured frames.
  • golden gram — (in the East Indies) the chickpea used as a food for people and cattle.
  • 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
  • graminology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of grasses
  • grammalogue — a word symbolized by a sign or letter.
  • granuliform — having a granular structure
  • granulomata — an inflammatory tumor or growth composed of granulation tissue.
  • great mogul — the emperor of the former Mogul Empire in India founded in 1526 by Baber.
  • ground plum — a prostrate milk vetch, Astragalus crassicarpus, of the legume family, growing in the prairie regions of North America.
  • gymnorhinal — (of a bird) having the nostrils exposed, not covered by feathers.
  • half-formed — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
  • halomorphic — containing or resulting from the presence of neutral salts or alkaline salts or the presence of both
  • hammer blow — a blow from a hammer
  • hammercloth — a cloth covering for the driver's seat on a horse-drawn carriage.
  • hammerlocks — Plural form of hammerlock.
  • 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
  • heliochrome — a photograph that reproduces the natural colours of the subject
  • heliochromy — the process and practice of producing a photograph that reproduces the natural colours of the subject
  • heliometers — Plural form of heliometer.
  • heliometric — Of or relating to the heliometer, or to heliometry.
  • helmsperson — A helmsman or helmswoman.
  • hematocryal — cold-blooded; poikilothermal.
  • 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.
  • hemielytron — hemelytron.
  • herald moth — a noctuid moth, Scoliopteryx libatrix, having brownish cryptically mottled forewings and plain dull hind wings. The adult hibernates and has a prolonged life
  • hermoupolis — a port in Greece, capital of Cyclades department, on the E coast of Syros Island. Pop: (municipality): 13 496 (2001)
  • heteroplasm — (pathology) Tissue growing in a part of the body where it does not normally occur.
  • holomorphic — analytic (def 5).
  • holy mother — honorific title of the Virgin Mary, often applied by analogy to the Roman Catholic Church.
  • home-helper — someone who provides part-time or full-time care for a sick or disabled person at home.
  • homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
  • homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
  • homopolymer — a polymer consisting of a single species of monomer, as polyadenylic acid or polyglutamic acid.
  • homothermal — homoiothermal.
  • hormonelike — Resembling a hormone or some aspect of one.
  • horror film — a film with a frightening storyline and atmosphere
  • humorlessly — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
  • humourously — (UK, uncommon, nonstandard) alternative spelling of humorously.
  • hylomorphic — (of a creature) composed of corporeal and spiritual matter.
  • hyperbolism — the use of hyperbole.
  • hypermotile — Abnormally or excessively motile.
  • hypernormal — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
  • hypothermal — lukewarm; tepid.
  • illinformed — lacking adequate or proper knowledge or information, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects: The public is ill-informed of the danger.
  • illuminator — a person or thing that illuminates.
  • immemorable — That cannot be remembered or has been forgotten.
  • immobiliser — Something or someone that immobilises.
  • immobilizer — to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.
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