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14-letter words containing m, s, g

  • gooseneck lamp — a desk lamp having a flexible shaft or stem.
  • gosling, james — James Gosling
  • grammar school — an elementary school.
  • grammaticaster — (derogatory) A pedantic, inferior grammarian.
  • granulomatosis — any disease characterized by the formation of numerous granulomas.
  • grassman's law — an observation, made by H. G. Grassman, that when aspirated consonants occurred in successive syllables in Sanskrit and classical Greek, one, usually the first, was unaspirated, becoming a voiced stop in Sanskrit and a voiceless stop in Greek.
  • grease remover — a substance that removes grease
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • guided missile — an aerial missile, as a rocket, steered during its flight by radio signals, clockwork controls, etc.
  • gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
  • gynandromorphs — Plural form of gynandromorph.
  • gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
  • gynomonoecious — having both female and hermaphrodite flowers on the same plant.
  • gypsum plaster — plaster made primarily of gypsum.
  • h.g.j. moseleyHenry Gwyn Jeffreys [gwin] /gwɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1915, English physicist: pioneer in x-ray spectroscopy.
  • haematogenesis — (physiology) The origin and development of blood.
  • haematophagous — (of certain animals) feeding on blood
  • half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
  • hangman's knot — a slip noose for hanging a person, usually having eight or nine turns around the rope.
  • heating system — a system that provides heat to a building or number of buildings
  • hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
  • highland games — a meeting in which competitions in sport, piping, and dancing are held: originating in the Highlands of Scotland
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • home schooling — Home schooling is the practice of educating your child at home rather than in a school.
  • homogenisation — Alternative spelling of homogenization.
  • housing market — property trade
  • housing scheme — arrangement offering subsidized housing
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hypophalangism — the condition of having fewer than the normal number of phalanges per finger or toe.
  • imaginary axis — the vertical axis in an Argand diagram.
  • immunogenetics — the branch of immunology dealing with the study of immunity in relation to genetic makeup.
  • immunostaining — (uncountable, immunology) Any of several staining techniques that are used to detect specific proteins.
  • imposing stone — a slab, formerly of stone but now usually of metal, on which pages of type or plates are imposed and on which type correcting in the page is done.
  • impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
  • in a good seam — doing well, esp financially
  • intersegmental — of, relating to, or characterized by segments or segmentation.
  • iris diaphragm — a composite diaphragm with a central aperture readily adjustable for size, used to regulate the amount of light admitted to a lens or optical system.
  • isthmian games — one of the great national festivals of ancient Greece, held every two years on the Isthmus of Corinth.
  • judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
  • jumping spider — any of several small, hairy spiders, of the family Salticidae, that stalk and jump upon their prey instead of snaring it in a web.
  • kings mountain — a ridge in N South Carolina: American victory over the British 1780.
  • laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
  • last judgement — In the Christian religion, the Last Judgement is the last day of the world when God will judge everyone who has died and decide whether they will go to Heaven or Hell.
  • leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
  • legitimateness — The quality of being legitimate.
  • legitimisation — (British) alternative spelling of legitimization.
  • lemongrass oil — an aromatic oil made from lemon grass and used in aromatherapy, as a pesticide, and as a preservative
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
  • lipogrammatism — the practice or art of writing lipograms
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