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11-letter words containing o, m, i

  • gliomatosis — excessive growth of neuroglia in the brain or spinal cord
  • glomerating — Present participle of glomerate.
  • glomeration — a glomerate condition; conglomeration.
  • glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
  • glumiferous — having glumes
  • gobsmacking — Causing one to be gobsmacked; astounding, flabbergasting.
  • gold mining — the act or process of mining gold.
  • gold-rimmed — Gold-rimmed glasses have gold-coloured frames.
  • goldschmidt — Richard Benedikt. 1878–1958, US geneticist, born in Germany. He advanced the theory that heredity is determined by the chemical configuration of the chromosome molecule rather than by the qualities of the individual genes
  • gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
  • goniometers — Plural form of goniometer.
  • goniometric — Of, relating to, or determined by a goniometer.
  • gonochorism — (biology) The situation in which the individuals of a species are of one of two distinct sexes, and retain that sexuality throughout their lives.
  • gonycampsis — abnormal curvature of the knee.
  • goosepimple — Alt form goose pimple.
  • 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.
  • gossypiboma — (surgery) A gauze or surgical sponge left inside a patient's body during surgery.
  • 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.
  • grey import — an imported vehicle that does not have an exact model equivalent in the receiving country
  • guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
  • guinea worm — a long, slender roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa.
  • gum benzoin — Also called gum benjamin, gum benzoin. a reddish-brown, aromatic balsamic resin occurring in almondlike fragments and having a vanillalike odor, obtained from trees of the genus Styrax, especially S. benzoin, of Java, Sumatra, etc.: used in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics and in medicine internally as an expectorant and externally as an antiseptic.
  • gumbo-limbo — a tropical American tree, Bursera simaruba, having reddish bark and yielding a sweet, aromatic resin used in varnishes.
  • gummiferous — producing gum
  • gymnodinium — any marine or freshwater dinoflagellate of the genus Gymnodinium, certain species of which cause red tide.
  • gymnophobia — An inordinate fear or hatred of being naked, and possibly nudity or nudists and naturists.
  • gymnorhinal — (of a bird) having the nostrils exposed, not covered by feathers.
  • gynostegium — a specialized caplike mass of tissue covering a gynoecium.
  • gynostemium — the united stamens and pistil of an orchid.
  • haemangioma — Alternative spelling of hemangioma.
  • haematocrit — Alternative spelling of hematocrit.
  • haematoidin — Alternative form of hematoidin.
  • haemocyanin — a blue copper-containing respiratory pigment in crustaceans and molluscs that functions as haemoglobin
  • haemoglobin — (protein) alternative spelling of hemoglobin.
  • haemolutein — (obsolete) bilirubin.
  • haemophilia — (pathology) Any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding, usually passed from mother to son.
  • haemophilic — Of or pertaining to haemophilia.
  • haemophobia — Alternative spelling of hemophobia.
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