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12-letter words containing r, e, m, a, i, g

  • emargination — A notch (or series of notches) in a margin.
  • embarrassing — Causing embarrassment.
  • emigrational — Relating to emigration.
  • epigrammatic — Of the nature or in the style of an epigram; concise, clever, and amusing.
  • father image — a person substituted in one's mind for one's father and often the object of emotions felt toward the father
  • file manager — a program that organizes and arranges files in a computer
  • fire-damaged — damaged by fire or in a fire
  • flagelliform — long, slender, and flexible, like the lash of a whip.
  • fragmentized — fragmented.
  • garnishments — Plural form of garnishment.
  • gastrocnemii — Plural form of gastrocnemius.
  • gastrodermis — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
  • gastronomies — Plural form of gastronomy.
  • gastrotomies — Plural form of gastrotomy.
  • gay marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
  • gelatiniform — Having the form of gelatin.
  • gendarmeries — Plural form of gendarmerie.
  • generic name — non-brand name of a product
  • geometrician — a person skilled in geometry.
  • germ carrier — an organism carrying microorganisms, esp microorganisms that produce disease in animals or plants
  • german sixth — (in musical harmony) an augmented sixth chord having a major third and a perfect fifth between the root and the augmented sixth
  • germanophile — a person who is friendly toward or admires or studies Germany or German culture.
  • germinations — Plural form of germination.
  • gila monster — a large, venomous lizard, Heloderma suspectum, of the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico, covered with beadlike scales of yellow, orange, and black.
  • glacier milk — water flowing in a stream from the snout of a glacier and containing particles of rock
  • gormandizers — gourmandise1 .
  • gourmandizer — One who gourmandizes.
  • gram calorie — calorie (def 1a). Abbreviation: g-cal.
  • graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
  • graminivores — Plural form of graminivore.
  • grammaticise — to make grammatical
  • grammaticize — (transitive) To render grammatical.
  • grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
  • graven image — an idol.
  • gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
  • gravitometer — an instrument that measures specific gravities
  • great primer — an 18-point type of a size larger than Columbian, formerly used for Bibles.
  • great schism — a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378–1417, over papal succession, during which there were two, or sometimes three, claimants to the papal office.
  • greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
  • gregarianism — the practice of living or clustering together in crowds or flocks
  • grimsel pass — an Alpine pass in S Switzerland. 7159 feet (2184 meters) high.
  • gyromagnetic — of or relating to the magnetic properties of a rotating charged particle.
  • haemorrhagic — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of hemorrhagic.
  • haulage firm — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • heartwarming — gratifying; rewarding; satisfying: a heartwarming response to his work.
  • heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
  • hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
  • hellgrammite — the aquatic larva of a dobsonfly, used as bait in fishing.
  • hemorrhaging — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
  • hierogrammat — a writer of hierograms.
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