16-letter words containing c, l, i, n, g, m
- macro-linguistic — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
- macrolinguistics — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
- magellanic cloud — either of two irregular galactic clusters in the southern heavens that are the nearest independent star system to the Milky Way.
- magical thinking — a conviction that thinking is equivalent to doing, occurring in dreams, the thought patterns of children, and some types of mental disorders, especially obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- magnetic anomaly — a departure from the normal magnetic field of the earth.
- magneto-electric — of or relating to the induction of electric current or electromotive force by means of permanent magnets.
- marginal costing — a method of cost accounting and decision making used for internal reporting in which only marginal costs are charged to cost units and fixed costs are treated as a lump sum
- marriage licence — an official document stating that a marriage will be allowed to take place
- marriage license — permit to marry
- masculine ending — a final inflection or suffix designating that a word belongs to the masculine gender.
- megalomaniacally — In a megalomaniacal manner.
- meningomyelocele — (medicine) A congenital defect of the central nervous system of infants in which membranes and the spinal cord protrude through an opening or defect in the vertebral column.
- mercator sailing — sailing according to rhumb lines, which appear as straight lines on a Mercator chart.
- 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
- misogynistically — In a misogynistic manner.
- mongolian idiocy — (no longer in technical use) Down syndrome.
- montgomery clift — Montgomery, 1920–66, U.S. actor.
- mos technologies — MOS Technology
- 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
- myelomeningocele — (pathology) A form of spina bifida characterized by protrusion of the spinal meninges.
- overcomplicating — Present participle of overcomplicate.
- phantasmagorical — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
- phenomenological — the study of phenomena.
- physiognomically — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
- picture moulding — the edge around a framed picture
- pneumonic plague — a form of plague characterized by lung involvement.
- psychoimmunology — the branch of medicine studying the effects of psychological phenomena on the immune system; the intersection of psychology and immunology.
- recycling scheme — a scheme enabling the public to recycle waste
- schmaltz herring — herring caught just before spawning, when it has much fat
- self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- shopping complex — a shopping centre
- smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
- stamp collecting — Stamp collecting is the hobby of building up a collection of stamps.
- stomach stapling — Stomach stapling is an operation in which part of the stomach is removed in order to help a person to eat less and lose weight.
- thermal cracking — Thermal cracking is an extraction process in which hydrocarbons such as crude oil are heated to a high temperature to break the molecular bonds.
- trimethylglycine — betaine.
- uncompromisingly — not admitting of compromise or adjustment of differences; making no concessions; inaccessible to flexible bargaining; unyielding: an uncompromising attitude.
- vertical farming — a proposed system of growing crops in urban areas using specially designed skyscrapers