12-letter words containing s, g, r, a, m
- gamal nasser — Gamal Abdel [guh-mahl ab-doo l,, juh-] /gəˈmɑl ˈæb dʊl,, dʒə-/ (Show IPA), 1918–70, Egyptian military and political leader: prime minister of Egypt 1954–56; president of Egypt 1956–58; president of the United Arab Republic 1958–70.
- game reserve — wildlife park, safari park
- games master — a man who teaches games and sports in a school
- gametophores — Plural form of gametophore.
- garam masala — an aromatic mixture of ground spices used in Indian cookery, usually containing black pepper, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, coriander, nutmeg, and turmeric.
- garnishments — Plural form of garnishment.
- gastric mill — a gizzard in decapod crustaceans, as lobsters, crabs, and shrimps, having an arrangement of teeth and small bones for grinding food and bristles for filtering small particles.
- gastrocnemii — Plural form of gastrocnemius.
- gastrodermal — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- gastrodermis — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- gastronomics — the cooking style typical of a region or country
- gastronomies — Plural form of gastronomy.
- gastronomist — a connoisseur of good food; gourmet; epicure.
- gastrotomies — Plural form of gastrotomy.
- gendarmeries — Plural form of gendarmerie.
- german sixth — (in musical harmony) an augmented sixth chord having a major third and a perfect fifth between the root and the augmented sixth
- germinations — Plural form of germination.
- gerrymanders — Plural form of gerrymander.
- 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.
- glamour puss — a person with an unusually attractive face.
- glamour-puss — a person with an unusually attractive face.
- gormandising — Present participle of gormandise.
- gormandizers — gourmandise1 .
- graham's law — the principle that the rates of diffusion and effusion of a gas are inversely proportional to the square root of its density, proposed by Thomas Graham (1805-69) in 1831
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- graminivores — Plural form of graminivore.
- grammaticise — to make grammatical
- grammaticism — a point or principle of grammar.
- gramophonist — a person who uses a gramophone
- gran turismo — (of an automobile) certified as conforming to the specifications, as fuel capacity and engine displacement, for a class of standard automobiles (Gran Turismo) qualified to engage in various types of competitions. Abbreviation: GTO.
- grand master — the head of a military order of knighthood, a lodge, fraternal order, or the like.
- grandmasters — Plural form of grandmaster.
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- granny smith — a variety of crisp, green-skinned apple, for eating raw or for cooking.
- grass family — the large plant family Gramineae (or Poaceae), characterized by mostly herbaceous but sometimes woody plants with hollow and jointed stems, narrow sheathing leaves, petalless flowers borne in spikelets, and fruit in the form of seedlike grain, and including bamboo, sugar cane, numerous grasses, and cereal grains such as barley, corn, oats, rice, rye, and wheat.
- gravitropism — (biology, botany) a plant's ability to change its growth in response to gravity.
- 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.
- greenmarkets — Plural form of greenmarket.
- 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.
- groom's cake — a fruit cake in layers of graduated size, served at a wedding.
- gross margin — the difference between total revenue and the cost of goods sold
- gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- haemorrhages — Plural form of haemorrhage.
- hamstringing — Present participle of hamstring.
- heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
- hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
- heterogamous — Genetics. having unlike gametes, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to isogamous).