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14-letter words containing a, s, r, i, g

  • lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • lipogrammatism — the practice or art of writing lipograms
  • lipogrammatist — a person who writes lipograms
  • lopping shears — long-handled pruning shears.
  • lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
  • luminous range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible in clear weather, disregarding interference from obstructions and from the curvature of the earth and depending on the power of the light.
  • lupus vulgaris — a rare form of tuberculosis of the skin, characterized by brownish tubercles that often heal slowly and leave scars.
  • macro-organism — an organism that can be seen with the naked eye.
  • macrobiologist — One who studies macrobiology.
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
  • macrosociology — the sociological study of large-scale social systems and long-term patterns and processes.
  • macrosporangia — Plural form of macrosporangium.
  • magic mushroom — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
  • magistral line — the line from which the position of the other lines of fieldworks is determined.
  • magnetic storm — a temporary disturbance of the earth's magnetic field, induced by radiation and streams of charged particles from the sun.
  • magnetic strip — a strip of magnetic material on which information may be stored, as by an electromagnetic process, for automatic reading, decoding, or recognition by a device that detects magnetic variations on the strip: a credit card with a magnetic strip to prevent counterfeiting.
  • magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
  • maraging steel — a low-carbon steel that has been heated and quenched to form martensite: contains up to 25 percent nickel.
  • margaritaceous — resembling mother-of-pearl; pearly.
  • marginal hacks — (humour)   Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the D.C. Power Lab).
  • marking scheme — a plan or guidelines used in the marking of school children's or students' written work by teaching staff
  • marriage bonds — the strong feeling of being united that is associated with marriage
  • marsh marigold — a yellow-flowered plant, Caltha palustris, of the buttercup family, growing in marshes and meadows; cowslip.
  • mass marketing — the organization of the sale of a product to a large number of people
  • masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
  • mastigophorous — carrying a cane or whip
  • matjes herring — young herring that have not spawned, often prepared with vinegar, sugar, salt, and spices.
  • measuring worm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
  • megasporangium — a sporangium containing megaspores.
  • menage a trois — a domestic arrangement in which three people having sexual relations occupy the same household.
  • metal spraying — a process in which a layer of one metal is sprayed onto another in the molten state
  • metamorphosing — to change the form or nature of; transform.
  • metapragmatics — Language that characterizes or describes the pragmatic function of some speech.
  • micro-organism — any organism too small to be viewed by the unaided eye, as bacteria, protozoa, and some fungi and algae.
  • micromagnetism — (physics) The study of magnetism at the sub-micrometre scale.
  • microorganisms — any organism too small to be viewed by the unaided eye, as bacteria, protozoa, and some fungi and algae.
  • microsporangia — Plural form of microsporangium.
  • mie scattering — the scattering of light by particles that are large relative to the wavelength of the light.
  • mineral rights — right to extract minerals from land
  • mineral spring — a spring of water that contains a significant amount of dissolved minerals.
  • misarrangement — incorrect or poor arrangement
  • miscategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • misgovernaunce — misgovernment
  • mistranslating — Present participle of mistranslate.
  • molly maguires — a secret society organized in Ireland in 1843 to terrorize landlords' agents in order to prevent evictions
  • morris dancing — Morris dancing is a type of old English country dancing which is performed by people wearing special costumes.
  • murrhine glass — glassware believed to resemble the murrhine cups of ancient Rome.
  • narcodiagnosis — the use of drugs to produce narcosis as an aid in diagnosis.
  • natural rights — any right that exists by virtue of natural law.
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