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16-letter words containing a, g, m

  • franking machine — a machine that franks letters
  • freight terminal — (on a rail network) a place where freight is stored while awaiting onward transport
  • frigate mackerel — a small, blue-green, black-striped fish, Auxis thazard, abundant in tropical seas, having dark, oily flesh that is sometimes used as food.
  • galenic pharmacy — the art or practice of preparing and dispensing galenicals.
  • gallium arsenide — a crystalline and highly toxic semiconductor, GaAs, used in light-emitting diodes, lasers, and electronic devices.
  • gamma correction — (hardware)   Adjustments applied during the display of a digital representation of colour on a screen in order to compensate for the fact that the Cathode Ray Tubes used in computer monitors (and televisions) produce a light intensity which is not proportional to the input voltage. The light intensity is actually proportional to the input voltage raised to the inverse power of some constant, called gamma. Its value varies from one display to another, but is usually around 2.5. Because it is more intuitive for the colour components (red, green and blue) to be varied linearly in the computer, the actual voltages sent to the monitor by the display hardware must be adjusted in order to make the colour component intensity on the screen proportional to the value stored in the computer's display memory. This process is most easily achieved by a dedicated module in the display hardware which simply scales the outputs of the display memory before sending them to the digital-to-analogue converters. More expensive graphics cards and workstations (particularly those used for CAD applications) will have a gamma correction facility. In combination with the "white-point" gamma correction is used to achieve precise colour matching.
  • garden apartment — an apartment on the ground floor of an apartment building having direct access to a backyard or garden.
  • garlic mushrooms — mushrooms, often pan-fried, cooked with garlic
  • garment district — an area in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City, including portions of Seventh Avenue and Broadway between 34th and 40th Streets and the streets intersecting them, that contains many factories, showrooms, etc., related to the design, manufacture, and wholesale distribution of clothing.
  • gaudeamus igitur — let us therefore rejoice
  • gelatin dynamite — a high explosive consisting of a gelatinized mass of nitroglycerin with cellulose nitrate added.
  • gender-normative — cisgender.
  • general american — any form of American English speech considered to show few regional peculiarities, usually including all dialects except for eastern New England, New York City, Southern, and South Midland (no longer in technical use). Abbreviation: GA.
  • general assembly — the legislature in some states of the U.S.
  • general factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
  • general medicine — non-surgical branch of medicine
  • genetic material — material that stores genetic information; DNA
  • gentleman friend — a man with whom a woman is romantically involved; suitor.
  • gentleman-farmer — a man whose wealth or income from other sources permits him to farm for pleasure rather than for basic income.
  • geometrical pace — a pace of 5 feet (1.5 meters), representing the distance between the places at which the same foot rests on the ground in walking.
  • geomorphological — Of or pertaining to geomorphology.
  • george m pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
  • george mcclellan — George Brinton [brin-tn] /ˈbrɪn tn/ (Show IPA), 1826–85, Union general in the American Civil War.
  • geothermal power — power generated using steam produced by heat emanating from the molten core of the earth
  • german cockroach — a common yellowish-brown cockroach, Blatta germanica, brought into the U.S. from Europe.
  • germinal vesicle — the large, vesicular nucleus of an ovum before the polar bodies are formed.
  • gingerbread palm — doom palm.
  • gingerbread plum — a tree, Neocarya macrophylla, of western Africa, bearing a large, edible, starchy fruit.
  • giuseppe mazzini — Giuseppe [joo-zep-pe] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ/ (Show IPA), 1805–72, Italian patriot and revolutionary.
  • give a hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.
  • global community — the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent
  • glycosylceramide — (organic chemistry) Any glycosyl derivative of a ceramide.
  • go out on a limb — say sth daring
  • gold star mother — an American woman whose son or daughter has died while serving in the United States Armed Forces
  • gonzález márquez — Felipe (feˈlipe). born 1942, Spanish statesman; prime minister of Spain (1982–96)
  • goosefoot family — formerly, the plant family Chenopodiaceae, characterized by often weedy herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually alternate leaves, small and inconspicuous flowers, and tiny, dry fruit, and including the beet, glasswort, goosefoot, Russian thistle, saltbush, and spinach; now part of the amaranth family, Amaranthaceae.
  • governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
  • gram atomic mass — the quantity of an element whose weight in grams is numerically equal to the atomic weight of the element.
  • grammar analysis — (language)   A program written in ABC for answering such questions as "what are the start symbols of all rules", "what symbols can follow this symbol", "which rules are left recursive", and so on. Includes a grammar of ISO Pascal. Version 1 by Steven Pemberton <[email protected]>. Ports to Unix, MS-DOS, Atari, Macintosh. FTP: ftp.eu.net, ftp.nluug.net programming/languages/abc/examples/grammar/.
  • granger movement — a campaign for state control of railroads and grain elevators, especially in the north central states, carried on during the 1870s by members of the Patrons of Husbandry (the Grange) a farmers' organization that had been formed for social and cultural purposes.
  • grant-maintained — funded by national government
  • gravity platform — (in the oil industry) a drilling platform that rests directly on the sea bed and is kept in position by its own weight; it is usually made of reinforced concrete
  • grim file reaper — (storage, operating system)   (GFR) An ITS and LISP Machine utility to remove files according to some program-automated or semi-automatic manual procedure, especially one designed to reclaim mass storage space or reduce name-space clutter (the original GFR actually moved files to tape). See also prowler, reaper. Compare GC, which discards only provably worthless stuff.
  • gulf of martaban — an inlet of the Bay of Bengal in Myanmar
  • gynandromorphism — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
  • gynandromorphous — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
  • hammer and tongs — with great vigor, determination, or vehemence: When he starts a job he goes at it hammer and tongs.
  • hamming distance — (data)   The minimum number of bits that must be changed in order to convert one bit string into another. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming.
  • hamming, richard — Richard Hamming
  • hamstring injury — an instance of physical damage to a person's hamstring
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