16-letter words containing c, i, n, g
- mercator sailing — sailing according to rhumb lines, which appear as straight lines on a Mercator chart.
- microaggressions — Plural form of microaggression.
- microangiopathic — Of, pertaining to or accompanied by microangiopathy.
- microengineering — The engineering of microscopic devices.
- microlinguistics — the branch of linguistics that is concerned with the study of languages in the abstract, and that looks at specific linguistic data without consideration of meaning
- microprogramming — microcode
- micropropagation — the propagation of plants from tissue cultures, often from single cells.
- misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
- misogynistically — In a misogynistic manner.
- mongolian idiocy — (no longer in technical use) Down syndrome.
- montgomery clift — Montgomery, 1920–66, U.S. actor.
- morning sickness — nausea occurring in the early part of the day, especially as a characteristic symptom in the first months of pregnancy.
- mos technologies — MOS Technology
- motoring offence — a crime committed which concerns driving
- moulding machine — a machine for pressing sand into a mould
- moulding process — the process of shaping or compacting a material into a frame or mould
- mourning clothes — clothes worn as a symbol of grief at a bereavement, esp black clothes
- moving staircase — Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
- 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.]
- myelomeningocele — (pathology) A form of spina bifida characterized by protrusion of the spinal meninges.
- nanotechnologies — Plural form of nanotechnology.
- nanotechnologist — Someone who does research into nanotechnology; someone studying things on the scale of nanometers.
- narcotics charge — a criminal charge or accusation concerning the use or dealing of illegal drugs
- narcotrafficking — the buying and selling of illegal drugs.
- necklace killing — an instance in which someone is killed by a burning tyre that has been placed around his or her neck.
- neurolinguistics — the study of the neurological processes underlying the development and use of language.
- new jack (swing) — a style of rhythm-and-blues music blending rap, disco, funk, soul, etc. and characterized by aggressive, boastful, romantic lyrics
- niche publishing — publishing books that are intended for a very specialized market
- nitrogen balance — the difference between the amount of nitrogen taken in and the amount excreted or lost: used to evaluate nutritional balance.
- non-compromising — an endangering, especially of reputation; exposure to danger, suspicion, etc.: a compromise of one's integrity.
- non-contingently — dependent for existence, occurrence, character, etc., on something not yet certain; conditional (often followed by on or upon): Our plans are contingent on the weather.
- non-genealogical — the study of family ancestries and histories.
- non-geographical — of or relating to geography.
- non-intersecting — to cut or divide by passing through or across: The highway intersects the town.
- non-intoxicating — causing or capable of causing intoxication: intoxicating beverages.
- noncorresponding — That does not correspond (to something else).
- nonmanufacturing — (economics) Outside of the manufacturing sector.
- nonparticipating — (of a person or thing) not participating: No penalties were given to nonparticipating students.
- nonphysiological — of or relating to physiology.
- nonreciprocating — Not reciprocating; not responding in kind.
- nucleating agent — a substance used to seed clouds to control rainfall and fog formation
- number crunching — a person or thing that performs a great many numerical calculations, as a financial analyst, statistician, computer, or computer program.
- number-crunching — a person or thing that performs a great many numerical calculations, as a financial analyst, statistician, computer, or computer program.
- objective danger — a danger, such as a stone fall or avalanche, to which climbing skill is irrelevant
- of a certain age — of an unspecified age, but no longer young
- oligonucleotides — Plural form of oligonucleotide.
- opening ceremony — a ceremony held in celebration of the start of something
- operating income — revenue from business operations after operating expenses are deducted from gross income.
- optical scanning — the process of interpreting data in printed, handwritten, bar-code, or other visual form by a device (optical scanner or reader) that scans and identifies the data.
- organ-pipe coral — an alcyonarian coral of the genus Tubipora, occurring in tropical waters, and forming a complex colony of brick-red, vertical tubules joined at intervals by transverse plates.