15-letter words containing a, m, u, g, s
- manual steering — Manual steering is steering in which the driver does all the work, without the help of mechanical power.
- marburg disease — a viral disease producing a severe and often fatal illness with fever, rash, diarrhea, vomiting, and gastrointestinal bleeding, transmitted to humans through contact with infected green monkeys.
- margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
- massage parlour — A massage parlour is a place where people go and pay for a massage. Some places that are called massage parlours are in fact places where people pay to have sex.
- measuring chain — a flexible length of metal links used in calculating distances
- measuring glass — a graduated glass container used to measure quantities of liquid
- measuring spoon — a spoon for measuring amounts, as in cooking, usually part of a set of spoons of different sizes.
- metalinguistics — the study of the relation between languages and the other cultural systems they refer to.
- microsporangium — a sporangium containing microspores.
- mogi das cruzes — a city in SE Brazil, E of São Paulo.
- mucosanguineous — containing or made up of blood and mucus
- multilingualism — using or able to speak several or many languages with some facility.
- musical evening — a social evening with a musical programme
- nonmucilaginous — Not mucilaginous.
- numismatologist — One versed in numismatology.
- opus anglicanum — fine embroidery, esp of church vestments, produced in England c.1200–c.1350; characterized by the rich materials used, esp silver gilt thread
- organomagnesium — pertaining to or noting an organic compound, especially an organic halide, containing magnesium linked to carbon.
- pergamentaceous — (esp of plants) resembling parchment, whether in texture or composition
- plagiostomatous — plagiostome
- plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
- programme music — music that is intended to depict or evoke a scene or idea
- right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
- saguia el hamra — the N part of Western Sahara.
- sausage machine — a machine for making sausages
- school-gate mum — a young family-oriented working mother, considered by political parties as forming a significant part of the electorate
- semi-figurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- south glamorgan — a county in SE Wales. 161 sq. mi. (416 sq. km).
- stamping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
- steamed pudding — a traditional pudding containing fat, sugar, eggs, flour, and other ingredients, which is steamed
- sturm und drang — a style or movement of German literature of the latter half of the 18th century: characterized chiefly by impetuosity of manner, exaltation of individual sensibility and intuitive perception, opposition to established forms of society and thought, and extreme nationalism.
- sub-machine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
- subminimum wage — See example at subminimum (def 1).
- summer triangle — a group of three first-magnitude stars (Deneb, Vega, and Altair) visible during the summer in the N skies
- surface grammar — grammar understood at the level of normal communication, rather than at the underlying level of 'deep' semantic and syntactic analysis
- tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
- tissue-matching — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
- unmitigatedness — the state of being unmitigated
- untransmigrated — not transmigrated; not transferred or caused to be transferred
- ust-kamenogorsk — a city in E Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.