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16-letter words containing a, n, g, u, s

  • misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
  • misunderstanding — failure to understand correctly; mistake as to meaning or intent.
  • modern languages — languages currently spoken
  • montagu's blenny — a small blenny, Coryphoblennius galerita, found among rocks in shallow water
  • mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
  • mount washington — a mountain in N New Hampshire, in the White Mountains: the highest peak in the northeast US; noted for extreme weather conditions. Height: 1917 m (6288 ft)
  • munching squares — A display hack dating back to the PDP-1 (ca. 1962, reportedly discovered by Jackson Wright), which employs a trivial computation (repeatedly plotting the graph Y = X XOR T for successive values of T - see HAKMEM items 146--148) to produce an impressive display of moving and growing squares that devour the screen. The initial value of T is treated as a parameter, which, when well-chosen, can produce amazing effects. Some of these, later (re)discovered on the LISP Machine, have been christened "munching triangles" (try AND for XOR and toggling points instead of plotting them), "munching w's", and "munching mazes". More generally, suppose a graphics program produces an impressive and ever-changing display of some basic form, foo, on a display terminal, and does it using a relatively simple program; then the program (or the resulting display) is likely to be referred to as "munching foos". [This is a good example of the use of the word foo as a metasyntactic variable.]
  • mutation testing — (testing)   A method to determine test set thoroughness by measuring the extent to which a test set can discriminate the program from slight variants of the program.
  • neuropathologies — the pathology of the nervous system.
  • neuropathologist — A specialist who practices neuropathology.
  • nitrogen mustard — any of the class of poisonous, blistering compounds, as C 5 H 1 1 Cl 2 N, analogous in composition to mustard gas but containing nitrogen instead of sulfur: used in the treatment of cancer and similar diseases; mechlorethamine.
  • nondurable goods — goods that remain usable for, or must be replaced within, a relatively short period of time, as food, apparel, or fabrics
  • organophosphorus — Denoting synthetic organic compounds containing phosphorus, especially pesticides and nerve gases of this kind.
  • osculating plane — the plane containing the circle of curvature of a point on a given curve.
  • pacific sturgeon — a dark gray sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, inhabiting marine and fresh waters along the northwestern coast of North America, valued as a food and sport fish.
  • pleasure-seeking — always looking for pleasure
  • portuguese india — a former Portuguese overseas territory on the W coast of India, consisting of the districts of Gôa, Daman, and Diu: annexed by India December 1961. Capital: Gôa.
  • pressure flaking — a method of manufacturing a flint tool by pressing flakes from a stone core with a pointed implement, usually of wood tipped with antler or copper.
  • preunderstanding — to perceive the meaning of; grasp the idea of; comprehend: to understand Spanish; I didn't understand your question.
  • punitive damages — law: penalty payment
  • purchasing agent — a person who buys materials, supplies, equipment, etc., for a company.
  • purchasing power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
  • qin shi huang di — Ch'in Shih Huang Ti.
  • quasi-managerial — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
  • quinquagenarians — Plural form of quinquagenarian.
  • regular gasoline — unleaded gasoline or petrol, as for fuelling a vehicle, etc
  • reporting clause — A reporting clause is a clause which indicates that you are talking about what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'She said' is a reporting clause.
  • run a tight ship — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
  • run rings around — a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, especially one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc.
  • russian dressing — a sharp mayonnaise dressing containing chopped pickles, chili sauce or ketchup, pimientos, etc.
  • saint petersburg — Also called Russian Empire. Russian Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Capital: St. Petersburg (1703–1917).
  • saint-ulmo-light — St. Elmo's fire.
  • santiago de cuba — a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
  • sawn-off shotgun — A sawn-off shotgun is a shotgun on which the barrel has been cut short. Guns like this are often used by criminals because they can be easily hidden.
  • sculpture garden — a garden that showcases sculptures in landscaped surroundings
  • sebaceous glands — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
  • security manager — The security manager of a store is the person responsible for organizing all security in the store and to whom security guards report.
  • self-liquidating — capable of being sold and converted into cash within a short period of time or before the date on which the supplier must be paid.
  • self-lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • self-subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • self-vulcanizing — to treat (rubber) with sulfur and heat, thereby imparting strength, greater elasticity, durability, etc.
  • shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • shugart, alan f. — Alan F. Shugart
  • single occupancy — a type of travel accommodation, as at a hotel, for one person in a room.
  • sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
  • slugging average — a measure of the effectiveness of a batter in making base hits, obtained by dividing the total bases reached by hitting by the number of official times at bat and carrying out the result to three decimal places. A batter making 275 total bases in 500 times at bat has a slugging average of .550.
  • smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
  • soft brown sugar — a type of moist sugar made by coating white sugar with dark molasses
  • sounding balloon — a balloon carrying instruments aloft to make atmospheric measurements, especially a radiosonde balloon.
  • sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
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