11-letter words containing n, a, g, m, i
- attempering — Present participle of attemper.
- badmouthing — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- balmain bug — a flattish edible Australian shellfish, Ibacus peronii, similar to the Moreton Bay bug
- bamboozling — Present participle of bamboozle.
- barking mad — If you say that someone is barking mad, you mean that they are insane or are acting very strangely.
- beam engine — an early type of steam engine, in which a pivoted beam is vibrated by a vertical steam cylinder at one end, so that it transmits motion to the workload, such as a pump, at the other end
- beam riding — a method of missile guidance in which the missile steers itself along the axis of a conically scanned microwave beam
- betting man — a person who is in the habit of placing bets
- blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- boring clam — piddock
- brand image — The brand image of a particular brand of product is the image or impression that people have of it, usually created by advertising.
- brickmaking — the activity of making bricks
- brisingamen — the magic necklace worn by Freya.
- calcimining — Present participle of calcimine.
- campaigners — Plural form of campaigner.
- campaigning — Military. military operations for a specific objective. Obsolete. the military operations of an army in the field for one season.
- car bombing — an instance when a bomb which someone has hidden under or in a car explodes
- carpogonium — the female sex organ of red algae, consisting of a swollen base containing the ovum and a long neck down which the male gametes pass
- centigramme — Alternative spelling of centigram.
- centimorgan — a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency
- cga monitor — a type of (early) computer monitor designed to operate with CGA technology
- champignons — Plural form of champignon.
- championing — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
- checkmating — Present participle of checkmate.
- chimichanga — a savoury deep-fried filled tortilla
- cinemagoers — Plural form of cinemagoer.
- climatising — to acclimate to a new environment.
- climatizing — to acclimate to a new environment.
- coal mining — the act, process, or industry of extracting coal from the earth
- coalignment — Alignment together.
- cognominate — of or relating to a cognomen
- collimating — Present participle of collimate.
- commutating — Present participle of commutate.
- compaginate — to join or unite
- compassings — contrivances or schemes
- compilating — Present participle of compilate.
- complaining — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
- cramponning — climbing using crampons
- craniognomy — the scientific study of the shape and characteristics of the skull
- culminating — final; decisive
- damascening — Present participle of damascene.
- damping off — any of various diseases of plants, esp the collapse and death of seedlings caused by the parasitic fungus Pythium debaryanum and related fungi in conditions of excessive moisture
- damping-off — a disease of seedlings, occurring either before or immediately after emerging from the soil, characterized by rotting of the stem at soil level and eventual collapse of the plant, caused by any of several soil fungi.
- data mining — Data mining involves collecting information from data stored in a database, for example in order to find out about people's shopping habits.
- daydreaming — indulgence in daydreams
- deamidating — Present participle of deamidate.
- degerminate — degerm (def 2).
- demagnetise — To make something nonmagnetic by removing its magnetic properties.
- demagnetize — to lose magnetic properties or remove magnetic properties from
- demagoguing — a person, especially an orator or political leader, who gains power and popularity by arousing the emotions, passions, and prejudices of the people.