11-letter words containing s, i, g, m
- fast-moving — moving or capable of moving at high speed.
- film rights — the rights purchased from the author of a work that enable a film maker to make a film of it
- filmsetting — photocomposition.
- fingermarks — Plural form of fingermark.
- fishmongers — Plural form of fishmonger.
- foreglimpse — a revelation or glimpse of the future.
- foreignisms — Plural form of foreignism.
- formalising — Present participle of formalise.
- formulising — formulate.
- fragmentise — Alternative form of fragmentize.
- gallicanism — the movement or body of doctrines, chiefly associated with the Gallican church, advocating the restriction of papal authority in certain matters.
- gaming laws — laws relating to gambling and playing games for money
- gamogenesis — sexual reproduction.
- gamotropism — the tendency of gametes to attract each other
- gangsterism — the methods or behavior of gangsters.
- garnishment — Law. a warning, served on a third party to hold, subject to the court's direction, money or property belonging to a debtor who is being sued by a creditor. a summons to a third party to appear in litigation pending between a creditor and debtor.
- gas mileage — the ratio of the number of miles travelled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned; fuel efficiency
- gastronomic — the art or science of good eating.
- gemmiferous — bearing buds or gemmae; gemmiparous.
- gemmiparous — producing or reproducing by buds or gemmae.
- gemmologist — the science dealing with natural and artificial gemstones.
- gemologists — Plural form of gemologist.
- genteelisms — Plural form of genteelism.
- geocentrism — A belief that Earth is the center of the universe and does not move.
- geodynamics — (used with a singular verb) the science dealing with dynamic processes or forces within the earth.
- geoisotherm — isogeotherm.
- ghost image — ghost (def 8).
- glassmaking — the art of making glass or glassware.
- glimmerings — Plural form of glimmering.
- gliomatosis — excessive growth of neuroglia in the brain or spinal cord
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- glumiferous — having glumes
- glutaminase — an enzyme used to treat cancer
- gobsmacking — Causing one to be gobsmacked; astounding, flabbergasting.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- grammarians — Plural form of grammarian.
- gravimeters — Plural form of gravimeter.
- grimm's law — the statement of the regular pattern of consonant correspondences presumed to represent changes from Proto-Indo-European to Germanic, according to which voiced aspirated stops became voiced obstruents, voiced unaspirated stops became unvoiced stops, and unvoiced stops became unvoiced fricatives: first formulated in 1820–22 by Jakob Grimm, though the facts had been noted earlier by Rasmus Rask.
- guesstimate — to estimate without substantial basis in facts or statistics.
- guestimates — Plural form of guestimate.
- guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild