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17-letter words containing g, r, a, d, e, m

  • humpbacked bridge — A humpbacked bridge or humpback bridge is a short and very curved bridge with a shape similar to a semi-circle.
  • hypophrygian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from B to B, with the final on E.
  • ideogrammatically — In terms of, or by means of, ideograms.
  • in (great) demand — If someone or something is in demand or in great demand, they are very popular and a lot of people want them.
  • isherwood framing — a system for framing steel vessels in which light, closely spaced, longitudinal frames are connected by heavy, widely spaced transverse frames with deep webs.
  • judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
  • lagrange's method — a procedure for finding maximum and minimum values of a function of several variables when the variables are restricted by additional conditions.
  • large-leaved lime — an ornamental European tree with small pale yellow flowers and which grown on lime-rich soils
  • macdonnell ranges — a mountain system of central Australia, in S central Northern Territory, extending about 160 km (100 miles) east and west of Alice Springs. Highest peak: Mount Zeil, 1531 m (5024 ft)
  • madiba generation — the generation born around 1994, when Nelson Mandela became the first president of a multiracial South Africa
  • magnetic meridian — a line on the earth's surface, passing in the direction of the horizontal component of the earth's magnetic field.
  • managing director — manager who oversees a project
  • marais des cygnes — a river in E central Kansas and W Missouri, flowing SE to the Osage River. 150 miles (241 km) long.
  • marriage guidance — counselling for married couples
  • mechanical digger — a machine used for excavation
  • medicochirurgical — pertaining to medicine and surgery.
  • mid-oceanic ridge — the continuous, double-ridged chain of mountains on the ocean floor, extending through the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and into the Indian and Pacific oceans
  • middle low german — Low German of the period c1100–c1500.
  • middle-age spread — an increase in bulk, especially in the waist and buttocks, associated with the onset of middle age and the body's decreasing ability to metabolize calories efficiently.
  • midmorning prayer — the third of the seven canonical hours; terce
  • mileage indicator — a device on a vehicle such as a car, plane, etc which indicates the number of miles travelled
  • misunderstandings — Plural form of misunderstanding.
  • mundane astrology — the astrology of worldly events, in contrast to the astrology of the individual: used especially in interpretations and forecasts involving politics, the stock market, weather, and disasters.
  • open-end mortgage — a mortgage agreement against which new sums of money may be borrowed under certain conditions.
  • organized ferment — ferment (def 1).
  • organized militia — a former military organization functioning under both state and federal authority.
  • performance drugs — the drugs that are taken illegally by athletes to enhance their sporting performance
  • powder metallurgy — the art or science of manufacturing useful articles by compacting metal and other powders in a die, followed by sintering.
  • programmed camera — a camera with electronic facilities for setting both aperture and shutter speed automatically on the basis of a through-the-lens light value and a given film speed
  • radiometeorograph — a device for the automatic transmission by radio of the data from a set of meteorological instruments
  • rat-tailed maggot — the aquatic larva of any of several syrphid flies of the genus Eristalis, that breathes through a long, thin tube at the posterior end of its body.
  • recurring decimal — Mathematics. repeating decimal.
  • repeating decimal — a decimal numeral that, after a certain point, consists of a group of one or more digits repeated ad infinitum, as 2.33333 …. or 23.0218181818 ….
  • ring-tailed lemur — a Madagascan prosimian primate, Lemur catta, with a long black and white ringed tail
  • sandringham house — a residence of the royal family, in Sandringham, a village in E England, in Norfolk near the E shore of the Wash
  • smarandache logic — neutrosophic logic
  • sound spectrogram — a graphic representation, produced by a sound spectrograph, of the frequency, intensity, duration, and variation with time of the resonance of a sound or series of sounds.
  • south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • unix brain damage — Something that has to be done to break a network program (typically a mailer) on a non-Unix system so that it will interoperate with Unix systems. The hack may qualify as "Unix brain damage" if the program conforms to published standards and the Unix program in question does not. Unix brain damage happens because it is much easier for other (minority) systems to change their ways to match non-conforming behaviour than it is to change all the hundreds of thousands of Unix systems out there. An example of Unix brain damage is a kluge in a mail server to recognise bare line feed (the Unix newline) as an equivalent form to the Internet standard newline, which is a carriage return followed by a line feed. Such things can make even a hardened jock weep.
  • user brain damage — (humour)   (UBD) A description (usually abbreviated) used to close a trouble report obviously due to utter cluelessness on the user's part. Compare pilot error; opposite: PBD; see also brain-damaged, PEBCAK.
  • wood meadow grass — a coarse, spreading grass, Poa nemoralis, of Eurasia, having flowers in long, narrow clusters.
  • yesterday morning — during the morning of the day preceding today
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