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18-letter words containing g, a, m

  • phantasmagorically — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
  • photochemical smog — air pollution containing ozone and other reactive chemical compounds formed by the action of sunlight on nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons, especially those in automobile exhaust.
  • phytohemagglutinin — a lectin, obtained from the red kidney bean, that binds to the membranes of T cells and stimulates metabolic activity, cell division, etc.
  • pig-tailed macaque — a forest-dwelling southeast Asian macaque, Macaca nemestrina, having a short, curled tail, colonized for animal behavior studies.
  • pigmy hippopotamus — a related but smaller animal, Choeropsis liberiensis
  • plane trigonometry — the branch of trigonometry dealing with plane triangles.
  • postmaster general — the executive head of the postal system of a country.
  • pragmatic sanction — any one of various imperial decrees with the effect of fundamental law.
  • primate of england — a title of the archbishop of Canterbury.
  • principal argument — the radian measure of the argument between −π and π of a complex number. Compare argument (def 8c).
  • production manager — a supervisor of the budget, crew and other details in the production of a film or play
  • programme of study — the prescribed syllabus that pupils must be taught at each key stage in the National Curriculum
  • programme planning — the act of creating plans or schedules, esp in relation to your occupation
  • programmer's cheer — (humour)   "Shift to the left! Shift to the right! Pop up, push down! Byte! Byte! Byte!" [Origin?]
  • programming skills — the skills required to write a program so that data may be processed by a computer
  • project management — leadership of a task or programme
  • promotion campaign — a campaign designed to encourage the sale of (a product) by advertising or securing financial support
  • propaganda machine — the group of people, publications, etc, such as of a government, country etc, responsible for the organized dissemination of information, allegations, etc, to assist or damage the cause of a government, movement, etc
  • psychogalvanometer — a type of galvanometer for detecting and measuring psychogalvanic currents.
  • psychopharmacology — the branch of pharmacology dealing with the psychological effects of drugs.
  • ptomaine poisoning — (erroneously) food poisoning thought to be caused by ptomaine.
  • publicity campaign — an effort to convey information to the public
  • publishing company — a firm which publishes books
  • punishment beating — a form of corporal punishment carried out by a paramilitary organization on a member of another sectarian organization, usually in Northern Ireland
  • pygmy hippopotamus — a small hippopotamus, Choeropsis liberiensis, of forests and swamps in western Africa.
  • radiometric dating — any method of determining the age of earth materials or objects of organic origin based on measurement of either short-lived radioactive elements or the amount of a long-lived radioactive element plus its decay product.
  • reciprocating pump — A reciprocating pump is a pump which uses a backward and forward movement to move a fluid.
  • recruitment agency — company that places job candidates
  • reggio nell'emilia — a city in N Italy.
  • registered company — a company which has officially registered its business
  • remanent magnetism — magnetization in minerals induced by a former magnetic field and persisting after the field changes.
  • repayment mortgage — a mortgage that you pay back in monthly repayments which consist of the accrued interest in addition to the original amount borrowed
  • replacement engine — an engine used to replace or substitute an older or broken engine (in a vehicle, etc)
  • residual magnetism — remanence.
  • retrograde amnesia — a memory disorder characterized by an inability to remember events or experiences that occurred before a significant point in time.
  • rhyming dictionary — a specialist dictionary organized by the final sounds of words, used to write poetry
  • roman congregation — any of the executive departments of the Curia Romana as the administration of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • rotational molding — a method for molding hollow plastic objects by placing finely divided particles in a hollow mold that is rotated about two axes, exposing it to heat and then to cold.
  • rule of engagement — a directive issued by a military authority controlling the use and degree of force, especially specifying circumstances and limitations for engaging in combat.
  • runge-kutta method — a numerical method, involving successive approximations, used to solve differential equations.
  • running commentary — non-stop description of sth
  • running martingale — martingale (def 2).
  • sampling equipment — Sampling equipment is equipment which is used to remove small amounts of something for analysis and monitoring.
  • sampling frequency — sample rate
  • sampling statistic — any function of observed data, esp one used to estimate the corresponding parameter of the underlying distribution, such as the sample mean, sample variance, etc
  • saturation bombing — intense area bombing intended to destroy everything in the target area.
  • schengen agreement — an agreement, signed in 1985 at a meeting of European leaders near Schengen, Luxembourg, but not implemented until 1995, to gradually abolish border controls within Europe; it was supplemented in 1990 by the Schengen Convention; in 1999 the agreement was incorporated into European Union law. Twenty-six countries acceded by 2015; the UK is not a signatory
  • security agreement — business: contract
  • segmental phonemes — phonemes consisting of sound segments; hence, the vowel, consonant, and semivowel sounds of a language
  • self-disparagement — the act of disparaging.
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