14-letter words containing g, c, r
- margaritaceous — resembling mother-of-pearl; pearly.
- margin account — an account opened by a customer with a brokerage house in which listed securities can be purchased on margin.
- marginal hacks — (humour) Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the D.C. Power Lab).
- marking scheme — a plan or guidelines used in the marking of school children's or students' written work by teaching staff
- marrons glaces — chestnuts cooked in syrup and glazed
- megakaryocytes — Plural form of megakaryocyte.
- megakaryocytic — Of, pertaining to, or containing megakaryocytes.
- mercapto group — the univalent group –SH.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- message center — an office or other area where incoming and outgoing messages, mail, etc., are received and transmitted, as by telephone, computer, or messenger.
- metapragmatics — Language that characterizes or describes the pragmatic function of some speech.
- meteorological — pertaining to meteorology or to phenomena of the atmosphere or weather.
- mexican orange — an aromatic, evergreen citrus shrub, Choisya ternata, of Mexico, having fragrant, white flowers, grown as an ornamental.
- michigan rummy — a variety of five hundred rummy in which each player scores his or her melds as played.
- micro-organism — any organism too small to be viewed by the unaided eye, as bacteria, protozoa, and some fungi and algae.
- microbarograph — a barograph for recording minute fluctuations of atmospheric pressure.
- microbiologist — the branch of biology dealing with the structure, function, uses, and modes of existence of microscopic organisms.
- microcomputing — the use of microcomputers.
- microfortnight — One millionth of the fundamental unit of time in the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measurement; 1.2096 sec. (A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 1/4th of a barrel; the mass unit of the system is taken to be a firkin of water). The VMS operating system has a lot of tuning parameters that you can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at boot if it realises that the current value is bogus. This time is specified in microfortnights! Multiple uses of the millifortnight (about 20 minutes) and nanofortnight have also been reported.
- micromagnetism — (physics) The study of magnetism at the sub-micrometre scale.
- micromarketing — the marketing of products or services designed to meet the needs of a very small section of the market
- microorganisms — any organism too small to be viewed by the unaided eye, as bacteria, protozoa, and some fungi and algae.
- micropathology — the branch of pathology dealing with the microscopic study of changes that occur in tissues and cells during disease.
- micropegmatite — a rock with a microscopic pegmatitic structure
- microsociology — the sociological study of small groups and social units within a larger social system.
- microsporangia — Plural form of microsporangium.
- mie scattering — the scattering of light by particles that are large relative to the wavelength of the light.
- milling cutter — any of various rotating toothed cutters used in a milling machine to cut or shape metal parts
- miscategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- misgovernaunce — misgovernment
- mispronouncing — Present participle of mispronounce.
- misrecognition — Incorrect recognition.
- misrecognizing — Present participle of misrecognize.
- monoglycerides — Plural form of monoglyceride.
- morganatically — In a morganatic manner.
- morning coffee — a mid-morning snack with a cup of coffee drunk during a short break at work, or in your house, when you might invite someone in
- morris dancing — Morris dancing is a type of old English country dancing which is performed by people wearing special costumes.
- mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- mourning cloak — a common butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) having purplish-brown wings with a wide yellow border, found throughout Europe and North America
- moving picture — A moving picture is a film.
- mpeg-4 aac ssr — MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding Scalable Sampling Rate
- mulching mower — a lawn mower that shreds blades of grass into very small pieces that are left on the lawn to decay and return moisture and nutrients to the soil
- myocardiograph — an instrument for recording the movements of the heart.
- myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.
- narcodiagnosis — the use of drugs to produce narcosis as an aid in diagnosis.
- narratological — of or relating to narratology
- nerve wracking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
- nerve-wracking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
- neurocognition — Any form of cognition that is associated with the functioning of one or more specific areas of the brain.
- neurocognitive — Pertaining to cognitive functions that are linked to a particular area, pathway or network of the brain.