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16-letter words containing c, o, s, m, g

  • magazine section — a magazinelike section in the Sunday editions of many newspapers, containing articles rather than news items and often letters, reviews, stories, puzzles, etc.
  • magmatic stoping — the process by which country rock is broken up and engulfed by the upward movement of magma
  • magnesiochromite — (mineral) A chromite species with the formula MgCr2O4.
  • magnetic compass — a compass having a magnetized needle generally in line with the magnetic poles of the earth.
  • magnetoacoustics — (used with a singular verb) the branch of physics studying the effects of magnetism on acoustics or their interaction.
  • magnetochemistry — the study of magnetic and chemical phenomena in their relation to one another.
  • magnetoreceptors — Plural form of magnetoreceptor.
  • magnetostriction — a change in dimensions exhibited by ferromagnetic materials when subjected to a magnetic field.
  • magnetostrictive — Of or pertaining to magnetostriction.
  • malacostracology — (obsolete) carcinology, the study of crustaceans.
  • malicious damage — Malicious damage is damage caused on purpose to the property of another person.
  • 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 customs — the acts that are traditionally done in connection with a marriage
  • megacorporations — Plural form of megacorporation.
  • megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
  • mercator sailing — sailing according to rhumb lines, which appear as straight lines on a Mercator chart.
  • microaggressions — Plural form of microaggression.
  • 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
  • microphotographs — Plural form of microphotograph.
  • migratory locust — any of several locusts that migrate in great swarms, especially Locusta migratoria, of Africa and Asia.
  • misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
  • misogynistically — In a misogynistic manner.
  • morning sickness — nausea occurring in the early part of the day, especially as a characteristic symptom in the first months of pregnancy.
  • mortgagee clause — a clause attached to a fire-insurance policy for protecting a mortgagee against loss or damage.
  • mos technologies — MOS Technology
  • 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.
  • non-compromising — an endangering, especially of reputation; exposure to danger, suspicion, etc.: a compromise of one's integrity.
  • overcompensating — Present participle of overcompensate.
  • phantasmagorical — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
  • pharmacogenetics — the branch of pharmacology that examines the relation of genetic factors to variations in response to drugs.
  • pharmacogenomics — the study of human genetic variability in relation to drug action and its application to medical treatment
  • physiognomically — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
  • psychoimmunology — the branch of medicine studying the effects of psychological phenomena on the immune system; the intersection of psychology and immunology.
  • recorded message — words spoken by someone and recorded electronically in order to be replayed again in future, esp automatically over the phone
  • richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
  • saxo grammaticus — c1150–1206? Danish historian and poet.
  • scheme of things — Someone's scheme of things is the way in which they think that things in their life should be organized.
  • second messenger — any of various intracellular chemical substances, as cyclic AMP, that transmit and amplify the messages delivered by a first messenger to specific receptors on the cell surface.
  • self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • shipping company — business that sends goods overseas
  • shopping complex — a shopping centre
  • simon boccanegra — an opera (1857) by Giuseppe Verdi.
  • something fierce — desperately, intensely
  • sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
  • spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
  • stamp collecting — Stamp collecting is the hobby of building up a collection of stamps.
  • steamboat gothic — a florid architectural style suggesting the gingerbread-decorated construction of river boats of the Victorian period.
  • stock management — the monitoring and control of goods and stock so that new stock can be ordered as required and the right numbers and quantities made available at all times
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