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16-letter words containing g, e, u, m

  • measuring device — gauge
  • miss one's guess — to fail to guess or predict accurately
  • misunderstanding — failure to understand correctly; mistake as to meaning or intent.
  • modern languages — languages currently spoken
  • modular language — (language)   (Modula) Wirth's 1977 predecessor of Modula-2. The original Modula was, more oriented toward concurrent programming, but otherwise quite similar.
  • molecular weight — the average weight of a molecule of an element or compound measured in units once based on the weight of one hydrogen atom taken as the standard or on 1/16 (0.0625) the weight of an oxygen atom, but after 1961 based on 1/12 (0.083) the weight of the carbon-12 atom; the sum of the atomic weights of all the atoms in a molecule. Abbreviation: mol. wt.
  • money laundering — Money laundering is the crime of processing stolen money through a legitimate business or sending it abroad to a foreign bank, to hide the fact that the money was illegally obtained.
  • montagu's blenny — a small blenny, Coryphoblennius galerita, found among rocks in shallow water
  • montague grammar — a model-theoretic semantic theory for natural language that seeks to encompass indexical expressions and opaque contexts within an extensional theory by constructing set-theoretic representations of the intension of an expression in terms of functions of possible worlds
  • mortgagee clause — a clause attached to a fire-insurance policy for protecting a mortgagee against loss or damage.
  • mosquito netting — netting used in the making of mosquito nets.
  • mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
  • 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
  • multiple listing — the listing of a home for sale with a number of real-estate brokers who participate in a shared listing service.
  • multiplepoinding — an action to determine the division of a property or fund between several claimants, brought by or on behalf of the present holder
  • munchen-gladbach — former name of Mönchengladbach.
  • munching squares — A display hack dating back to the PDP-1 (ca. 1962, reportedly discovered by Jackson Wright), which employs a trivial computation (repeatedly plotting the graph Y = X XOR T for successive values of T - see HAKMEM items 146--148) to produce an impressive display of moving and growing squares that devour the screen. The initial value of T is treated as a parameter, which, when well-chosen, can produce amazing effects. Some of these, later (re)discovered on the LISP Machine, have been christened "munching triangles" (try AND for XOR and toggling points instead of plotting them), "munching w's", and "munching mazes". More generally, suppose a graphics program produces an impressive and ever-changing display of some basic form, foo, on a display terminal, and does it using a relatively simple program; then the program (or the resulting display) is likely to be referred to as "munching foos". [This is a good example of the use of the word foo as a metasyntactic variable.]
  • muskegon heights — a city in W Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
  • mutation testing — (testing)   A method to determine test set thoroughness by measuring the extent to which a test set can discriminate the program from slight variants of the program.
  • nitrogen mustard — any of the class of poisonous, blistering compounds, as C 5 H 1 1 Cl 2 N, analogous in composition to mustard gas but containing nitrogen instead of sulfur: used in the treatment of cancer and similar diseases; mechlorethamine.
  • nuclear magneton — a unit of magnetic moment, used to measure proton spin and approximately equal to 1/1836 Bohr magneton.
  • number crunching — a person or thing that performs a great many numerical calculations, as a financial analyst, statistician, computer, or computer program.
  • number-crunching — a person or thing that performs a great many numerical calculations, as a financial analyst, statistician, computer, or computer program.
  • of human bondage — a novel (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham.
  • operating manual — a leaflet of instructions on how to use something (such as an electrical appliance, etc)
  • patent ambiguity — uncertainty of meaning created by the obscure or ambiguous language appearing on the face of a written instrument.
  • people smuggling — People smuggling or people trafficking is the practice of bringing immigrants into a country illegally.
  • picture moulding — the edge around a framed picture
  • pietermaritzburg — a province in the E part of the Republic of South Africa. 35,284 sq. mi. (91,886 sq. km). Capital: Pietermaritzburg.
  • pigeon guillemot — a black or brown-speckled seabird of the genus Cepphus, of northern seas, having a sharply pointed black bill, red legs, and white wing patches, as C. grylle (black guillemot) of the North Atlantic and the similar C. columba (pigeon guillemot) of the North Pacific.
  • pneumatic trough — a trough filled with liquid, especially water, for collecting gases in bell jars or the like by displacement.
  • pneumonic plague — a form of plague characterized by lung involvement.
  • portuguese timor — former (1914-75) Portuguese territory in the Malay Archipelago
  • postremogeniture — a system of inheritance under which the estate of a deceased person goes to his youngest son. Also called ultimogeniture. Compare primogeniture (def 2).
  • private judgment — personal opinion formed independently of the expressed position of an institution, as in matters of religion or politics.
  • punitive damages — law: penalty payment
  • quasi-legitimate — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
  • quasi-managerial — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
  • queen maud range — a mountain range in Antarctica, in Ross Dependency, S of the Ross Sea.
  • rough and tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
  • rough-and-tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
  • rumour-mongering — the act of spreading rumours
  • schaumburg-lippe — a former state in NW Germany.
  • security manager — The security manager of a store is the person responsible for organizing all security in the store and to whom security guards report.
  • semiagricultural — partly engaged in or given over to agriculture
  • shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
  • sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
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