17-letter words containing g, r, e, n, m, o
- marriage ceremony — official part of a wedding
- megaelectron volt — million electron volts.
- memory management — (memory management, storage) A collection of techniques for providing sufficient memory to one or more processes in a computer system, especially when the system does not have enough memory to satisfy all processes' requirements simultaneously. Techniques include swapping, paging and virtual memory. Memory management is usually performed mostly by a hardware memory management unit.
- mercury poisoning — illness caused by exposure to mercury
- methylidyne group — the trivalent group ≡CH.
- micropaleontology — the branch of paleontology dealing with the study of microscopic fossils.
- 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.
- 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
- military governor — the military officer in command of a military government.
- montagu's harrier — a brownish European bird of prey, Circus pygargus, with long narrow wings and a long tail: family Accipitridae (hawks, harriers, etc)
- mother of vinegar — mother2 .
- motorcycle engine — the engine of a motorcycle
- motorcycle racing — sport: competing on motorcycles
- motoring magazine — a magazine about cars
- multigenerational — of or relating to several generations, as of a family, or society: a multigenerational novel covering 300 years.
- multiple cropping — the use of the same field for two or more crops, whether of the same or of different kinds, successively during a single year.
- 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.
- network marketing — a marketing strategy in which sales representatives of a company recruit other salespeople and earn commissions on their own sales and on the sales made by their team: Use your personal relationships to be successful in network marketing.
- neuropharmacology — the branch of pharmacology concerned with the effects of drugs on the nervous system.
- non-argumentative — fond of or given to argument and dispute; disputatious; contentious: The law students were an unusually argumentative group.
- northern michigan — the peninsula between lakes Superior and Michigan constituting the N part of Michigan. Abbreviation: U.P.
- nothing more than — merely, solely
- number eight iron — a club with an iron head the face of which has more slope than a pitcher but less slope than a niblick.
- on speaking terms — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
- open-end mortgage — a mortgage agreement against which new sums of money may be borrowed under certain conditions.
- opening arguments — the statements or arguments provided by lawyers at the beginning of a trial
- organic chemistry — the branch of chemistry, originally limited to substances found only in living organisms, dealing with the compounds of carbon.
- organized ferment — ferment (def 1).
- organized militia — a former military organization functioning under both state and federal authority.
- outline agreement — a contract, etc, setting out the preliminary terms or guidelines for an agreement; a preliminary agreement
- performance drugs — the drugs that are taken illegally by athletes to enhance their sporting performance
- permutation group — a mathematical group whose elements are permutations and in which the product of two permutations is the same permutation as is obtained by performing them in succession.
- personnel manager — head of Human Resources department
- phantom pregnancy — the occurrence of signs of pregnancy, such as enlarged abdomen and absence of menstruation, when no embryo is present, due to hormonal imbalance
- poor man's orange — a grapefruit
- portfolio manager — a person employed by others to make investments for them
- precision bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped, as accurately as possible, on a specific, usually small, target.
- program generator — a computer program that can be used to help to create other computer programs
- program statement — a single instruction in a computer program
- programme planner — someone who creates plans or schedules in regards to their line of work or occupation
- reformed spelling — a revised orthography intended to simplify the spelling of English words, especially to eliminate unpronounced letters, as by substituting thru for through, tho for though, slo for slow, etc.
- remote monitoring — (protocol) (RMON) A network management protocol that allows network information to be gathered at a single computer. Whereas SNMP gathers network data from a single type of Management Information Base (MIB), RMON 1 defines nine additional MIBs that provide a much richer set of data about network usage. For RMON to work, network devices, such as hubs and switches, must be designed to support it. The newest version of RMON, RMON 2, provides data about traffic at the network layer in addition to the physical layer. This allows administrators to analyse traffic by protocol.
- role-playing game — a game in which participants adopt the roles of imaginary characters in an adventure under the direction of a Game Master.
- sandringham house — a residence of the royal family, in Sandringham, a village in E England, in Norfolk near the E shore of the Wash
- see someone right — to ensure fair treatment of (someone)
- senior management — the most senior staff of an organization or business, including the heads of various divisions or departments led by the chief executive
- sleeping problems — difficulties in getting to sleep or in staying asleep
- smarandache logic — neutrosophic logic