15-letter words containing a, d, i, n, g, m
- gerald mulligan — Gerald Joseph ("Gerry"; "Jeru") 1927–96, U.S. jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer.
- gingerbread man — biscuit in the shape of a man
- glycaemic index — an index indicating the effects of various foods on blood sugar. Fast-releasing foods that raise blood sugar levels quickly are high on the index, while slow-releasing foods, at the bottom of the index, give a slow but sustained release of sugar
- golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
- guidance system — The guidance system of a missile or rocket is the device which controls its course.
- guru meditation — (operating system) The Amiga equivalent of Unix's panic (sometimes just called a "guru" or "guru event"). When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the form "GURU MEDITATION #XXXXXXXX.YYYYYYYY" may appear, indicating what the problem was. An Amiga guru can figure things out from the numbers. In the earliest days of the Amiga, there was a device called a "Joyboard" which was basically a plastic board built onto a joystick-like device; it was sold with a skiing game cartridge for the Atari game machine. It is said that whenever the prototype OS crashed, the system programmer responsible would concentrate on a solution while sitting cross-legged, balanced on a Joyboard, resembling a meditating guru. Sadly, the joke was removed in AmigaOS 2.04. The Jargon File claimed that a guru event had to be followed by a Vulcan nerve pinch but, according to a correspondent, a mouse click was enough to start a reboot.
- gynandromorphic — (of an organism) Having male and female characteristics.
- hedonic damages — compensation based on what the victim of a crime might have earned in the future
- high and mighty — self-important, arrogant
- high-and-mighty — haughty; arrogant.
- holding company — a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations (distinguished from parent company).
- homing guidance — a method of missile guidance in which internal equipment enables it to steer itself onto the target, as by sensing the target's heat radiation
- immunodiagnosis — serodiagnosis.
- integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
- laminated glass — Laminated glass is safety glass in which a transparent plastic film is placed between plates of glass.
- laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
- loading program — a series of instructions entered automatically in a program that starts the processing.
- mackinac bridge — a suspension bridge over the Straits of Mackinac, connecting the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan: one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. 3800-foot (1158-meter) center span; 7400 feet (2256 meters) in total length.
- madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
- magnesium oxide — magnesia.
- magnetic domain — a portion of a ferromagnetic material where the magnetic moments are aligned with one another because of interactions between molecules or atoms.
- magnetic needle — a slender magnetized steel rod that, when adjusted to swing in a horizontal plane, as in a compass, indicates the direction of the earth's magnetic fields or the approximate position of north and south.
- maid-in-waiting — an unmarried woman who serves as an attendant to a queen or princess; lady-in-waiting.
- mailing address — postal or delivery address
- malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
- managing editor — an editor assigned to the supervision and coordination of certain editorial activities of a newspaper, magazine, book publishing company, or the like. Abbreviation: M.E., m.e.
- mandarin orange — mandarin (def 4).
- manganese oxide — a type of metallic oxide used to colour glass purple
- marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
- marigold window — wheel window.
- meibomian gland — any of the small sebaceous glands in the eyelid, beneath the conjunctiva
- mid-ocean ridge — any of several seismically active submarine mountain ranges that extend through the Atlantic, Indian, and South Pacific oceans: each is hypothesized to be the locus of seafloor spreading.
- midgard serpent — a serpent, the child of Loki and Angerboda, who lies wrapped around the world, tail in mouth, and is destined to kill and to be killed by Thor at Ragnarok; Jormungand.
- mineral kingdom — minerals collectively.
- misapprehending — Present participle of misapprehend.
- miscoordinating — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- mohandas gandhi — Indira [in-deer-uh] /ɪnˈdɪər ə/ (Show IPA), 1917–84, Indian political leader: prime minister 1966–77 and 1980–84 (daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru).
- mongolian idiot — a person affected with Down syndrome
- moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
- nonintimidating — not intimidating, free of intimidation
- not give a damn — If you say that someone does not give a damn about something, you are emphasizing that they do not care about it at all.
- old high german — High German before 1100. Abbreviation: OHG.
- oligohydramnios — (medicine) A deficit of amniotic fluid in the amniotic sac, causing distinctive deformations of the foetus.
- orange chromide — an Asian cichlid fish, Etropus maculatus, with a brownish-orange spotted body
- orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
- organized crime — illegal activities co-ordinated by groups
- overdramatizing — Present participle of overdramatize.
- phonocardiogram — the graphic record produced by a phonocardiograph.
- powder magazine — a compartment for the storage of ammunition and explosives.
- primary winding — an induction coil that is the part of an electric circuit in which a changing current induces a current in a neighbouring circuit