13-letter words containing r, a, g, m
- gastrostomies — Plural form of gastrostomy.
- general magic — A software company based in Mountain View, California. Products released in 1994 after four years in development include: Telescript - a communications-oriented programming language; Magic Cap - an OOPS designed for PDAs; and a new, third generation GUI. Motorola's Envoy, due for release in the third quarter of 1994, will use Magic Cap as its OS. What PostScript did for cross-platform, device-independent documents, Telescript aims to do for cross-platform, network-independent messaging. Telescript protects programmers from many of the complexities of network protocols. Competitors for Magic Cap include Microsoft's Windows for Pens/Winpad, PenPoint, Apple Computer's Newton Intelligence and GEOS by GeoWorks.
- generalissimo — the supreme commander of the armed forces.
- generationism — the belief that some generations are superior to others
- geometrically — of or relating to geometry or to the principles of geometry.
- geometricians — Plural form of geometrician.
- german africa — the former German colonies in Africa, comprising German East Africa, German Southwest Africa, Cameroons, and Togoland.
- german silver — any of various alloys of copper, zinc, and nickel, usually white and used for utensils, drawing instruments, etc.; nickel silver.
- germinability — the degree of ability of a seed to germinate or sprout.
- germinal disk — blastodisk.
- gerrymandered — Simple past tense and past participle of gerrymander.
- gerrymanderer — a person who gerrymanders
- ginger family — the plant family Zingiberaceae, characterized by tropical, often aromatic herbaceous plants having rhizomes, long sheathing leaves, and clusters of tubular flowers, and including cardamon, ginger, and turmeric.
- giulio romano — (Giulio Pippi de' Giannuzzi) 1492?–1546, Italian painter and architect.
- glacier cream — a barrier cream, esp against ultraviolet radiation, used when climbing above the snow line
- glamorisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
- glamorization — to make glamorous.
- glamour model — a woman who models topless or nude for photographs
- glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
- glutamatergic — (biochemistry, neurology) Of or pertaining to the neurotransmission of glutamate.
- gnu assembler — (GAS) A Unix assembler for the GNU project. Many CPU types are handled and COFF and IEEE-695 formats are supported as well as standard a.out. Current version 2.2 ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, i386, 386BSD, BSD/386, Linux, PS/2-AIX, VAX, Ultrix, BSD, VMS. The assembler has been merged with GNU Binutils. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- gobar numeral — any of a set of ancient numerals derived from Hindu numerals
- gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
- gourmandizing — Present participle of gourmandize.
- graecia magna — Magna Graecia.
- graffiti-bomb — Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
- graham island — an island in the Pacific Ocean, in W British Columbia, Canada: largest and northernmost of the Queen Charlotte Islands. 2485 sq. mi. (6436 sq. km).
- grain sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as durra or milo, having starchy seeds, grown for grain and forage.
- gram molecule — that quantity of a substance whose weight in grams is numerically equal to the molecular weight of the substance.
- gram's method — a method of staining and distinguishing bacteria, in which a fixed bacterial smear is stained with crystal violet, treated with Gram's solution, decolorized with alcohol, counterstained with safranine, and washed with water.
- gram-negative — (of bacteria) not retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
- gram-positive — (of bacteria) retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
- gram-variable — of or relating to bacteria that stain irregularly with Gram's stain, being neither Gram-positive nor Gram-negative.
- graminicolous — (esp of parasitic fungi) living on grass
- graminivorous — feeding or subsisting on grass: a graminivorous bird.
- grammatically — of or relating to grammar: grammatical analysis.
- grammaticized — Simple past tense and past participle of grammaticize.
- grand marnier — a French cognac-based liqueur with an orange flavour
- grand marshal — marshal (def 8).
- grand old man — a highly respected, usually elderly man who has been a major or the most important figure in a specific field for many years.
- grand slammer — Bridge. the winning of all thirteen tricks of a deal. Compare little slam.
- grandma moses — Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma Moses") 1860–1961, U.S. painter.
- grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
- grantsmanship — skill in securing grants, as for research, from federal agencies, foundations, or the like.
- granulomatous — an inflammatory tumor or growth composed of granulation tissue.
- graphemically — In terms of or by means of graphemes.
- grass sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as Sudan grass, grown for pasturage and hay.
- gravity meter — gravimeter (def 2).
- gray eminence — a person who wields unofficial power, especially through another person and often surreptitiously or privately.
- grease monkey — a mechanic, especially one who works on automobiles or airplanes.