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13-letter words containing d, e, m, a, g

  • magnetic wood — wood containing fine particles of nickel-zinc ferrite which absorb microwave radio signals, used to line rooms where mobile phone use is undesirable
  • maiden voyage — the first voyage of a ship after its acceptance by the owners from the builders.
  • managed bonds — investment in a combination of fixed interest securities, equities, gilts, and property, in which an investment manager, acting on a client's behalf, varies the amount invested in each according to the returns expected
  • managed funds — funds which are managed by a mutual fund manager on behalf of investors
  • managed trade — a system whereby the government sets and specifies trade targets and policies
  • mango madness — the irrational behaviour of a person suffering from the effects of living in tropical heat
  • mannheim gold — a brass alloy used to imitate gold; red brass.
  • market garden — Chiefly British. truck farm.
  • masterminding — to plan and direct (a usually complex project or activity), especially skillfully: Two colonels had masterminded the revolt.
  • measuring rod — ruler, gauge, stick for measuring
  • merchandising — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
  • merchandizing — Alternative spelling of merchandising.
  • message board — bulletin board system
  • method acting — film, theater: acting approach
  • millau bridge — a road bridge, the highest in the world, crossing the River Tarn in the Massif Central in SW France; designed by Sir Norman Foster and opened in 2004
  • mills grenade — a type of high-explosive grenade weighing about 1.5 pounds (0.7 kg).
  • mind-altering — causing marked changes in patterns of mood and behavior, as a hallucinogenic drug.
  • mixed farming — agriculture: raising both crops and livestock
  • moderate gale — a wind of 32–38 miles per hour (14–17 m/sec).
  • modern greats — (at Oxford University) the Honour School of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
  • molding plane — a plane having a blade or a number of blades profiled to form moldings.
  • mood-altering — (especially of drugs) capable of changing one's emotional state.
  • mordant rouge — a solution of aluminum acetate in acetic acid, used in dyeing and calico printing.
  • mortgage bond — a bond secured by a mortgage on real estate or other property.
  • much-maligned — If you describe someone or something as much-maligned, you mean that they are often criticized by people, but you think the criticism is unfair or exaggerated because they have good qualities too.
  • multidigitate — having many digits or finger-like projections
  • muzzleloading — Of a gun, having ammunition loaded from the front of the barrel where it will exit.
  • name-dropping — the introduction into one's conversation, letters, etc., of the names of famous or important people as alleged friends or associates in order to impress others.
  • nonjudgmental — not judged or judging on the basis of one's personal standards or opinions: They tried to adopt a nonjudgmental attitude that didn't reflect their own biases. My guidance counselor in high school was sympathetic and nonjudgmental.
  • overdemanding — excessively demanding
  • pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
  • phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
  • phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
  • predominating — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
  • preprogrammed — to program in advance: to preprogram a manufacturing process.
  • quadragesimal — of, relating to, or suitable for Lent; Lenten.
  • quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
  • radiotelegram — a message transmitted by radiotelegraphy.
  • riding master — a person who teaches equitation.
  • scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
  • scrambled egg — eggs stirred while cooking
  • segmentalized — separated into parts, sections, elements, classes, etc.; compartmentalized: a segmentalized society.
  • semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
  • single-masted — (of a boat) having a single mast
  • trade embargo — a government order imposing a trade barrier
  • tzom gedaliah — a Jewish fast day observed on the third day of the month of Tishri in memory of the treacherous murder of Gedaliah, Jewish governor of Judah appointed by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia.
  • uncamouflaged — the act, means, or result of obscuring things to deceive an enemy, as by painting or screening objects so that they are lost to view in the background, or by making up objects that from a distance have the appearance of fortifications, guns, roads, etc.: Was camouflage used extensively on fighter aircraft during World War I?
  • under-manager — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
  • under-meaning — what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import: the three meanings of a word.
  • unimpregnated — not saturated, soaked or infused (with something)
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