15-letter words containing g, r, o, a, m
- program picture — a motion picture produced on a low budget, usually shown as the second film of a double feature.
- program trading — trading on international stock exchanges using a computer program to exploit differences between stock index futures and actual share prices on world equity markets
- programmability — capable of being programmed.
- programme music — music that is intended to depict or evoke a scene or idea
- programme notes — notes designed to act as guide to an audience listening to live (esp classical) music. They will inform about the sequence of music played and may give some information about the music
- programme-maker — someone who creates programmes for television and radio
- project manager — sb who oversees project plan
- radio programme — something that is broadcast on radio
- radiogoniometer — a device used to detect the direction of radio waves, consisting of a coil that is free to rotate within two fixed coils at right angles to each other
- radiogoniometry — the science of detecting the direction of radio waves
- radioimmunology — the study of biological substances or processes with the aid of antigens or antibodies labeled with a radioactive isotope.
- ramrod straight — having a very straight figure
- random sampling — a method of selecting a sample (random sample) from a statistical population in such a way that every possible sample that could be selected has a predetermined probability of being selected.
- real programmer — (job, humour) (From the book "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche") A variety of hacker possessed of a flippant attitude toward complexity that is arrogant even when justified by experience. The archetypal "Real Programmer" likes to program on the bare metal and is very good at it, remembers the binary op codes for every machine he has ever programmed, thinks that high-level languages are sissy, and uses a debugger to edit his code because full-screen editors are for wimps. Real Programmers aren't satisfied with code that hasn't been bummed into a state of tenseness just short of rupture. Real Programmers never use comments or write documentation: "If it was hard to write", says the Real Programmer, "it should be hard to understand." Real Programmers can make machines do things that were never in their spec sheets; in fact, they are seldom really happy unless doing so. A Real Programmer's code can awe with its fiendish brilliance, even as its crockishness appals. Real Programmers live on junk food and coffee, hang line-printer art on their walls, and terrify the crap out of other programmers - because someday, somebody else might have to try to understand their code in order to change it. Their successors generally consider it a Good Thing that there aren't many Real Programmers around any more. For a famous (and somewhat more positive) portrait of a Real Programmer, see "The Story of Mel". The term itself was popularised by a 1983 Datamation article "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal" by Ed Post, still circulating on Usenet and Internet in on-line form.
- regulation time — the standard duration of a sports game, before the addition of any extra time to determine a winner, etc
- remonstratingly — in an remonstrating or dissenting manner
- right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
- ringtail monkey — a Central and South American monkey, Cebus capucinus, having a prehensile tail and hair on the head resembling a cowl.
- rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- routeing domain — (networking) (US "routing") A set of routers that exchange routeing information within an administrative domain.
- sarcoptic mange — mange caused by burrowing mites of the genus Sarcoptes.
- second mortgage — a mortgage the lien of which is next in priority to a first mortgage.
- semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
- semipornography — partial pornography; material that is almost pornographic
- serial monogamy — a form of monogamy characterized by several successive, short-term marriages over the course of a lifetime.
- sharing economy — a system in which people rent, borrow, or share commodities, services, and resources owned by individuals, usually with the aid of online technology, in an effort to save money, cut costs, and reduce waste.
- smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc
- south glamorgan — a county in SE Wales. 161 sq. mi. (416 sq. km).
- spermatogenesis — the origin and development of spermatozoa.
- stamford bridge — a village in N England, east of York: site of a battle (1066) in which King Harold of England defeated his brother Tostig and King Harald Hardrada of Norway, three weeks before the Battle of Hastings
- stamping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
- start something — to cause a disturbance or trouble
- steam generator — steam-producing power plant
- steam reforming — a process in which methane from natural gas is heated, with steam, usually with a catalyst, to produce a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen used in organic synthesis and as a fuel
- tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
- the working man — working class people collectively
- theory of games — game theory.
- thermobarograph — a device that simultaneously records the temperature and pressure of the atmosphere
- thermogeography — the study of the geographical variation and distribution of temperature.
- topographic map — a map showing topographic features, usually by means of contour lines.
- trading company — a company that is owned by the people who have bought shares in that company
- traumatological — relating to traumatology
- urban migration — the process of people moving from rural areas to cities
- ust-kamenogorsk — a city in E Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
- utility program — system software used to perform standard operations, as sorting data or copying data from one file to another, for application programs or other system software.
- voronoi diagram — (mathematics, graphics) (Or "Voronoi tessellation", "Voronoi decomposition", "Dirichlet tessellation", After Georgy Feodosevich Voronoy) For a set S of points in a Euclidean space, the partition Vor(S) of the plane into the voronoi polygons associated with the members of S, where each polygon is defined by the set of points nearer to some given point in S than to any other point in S. The Voronoi diagram is the dual of the Delaunay triangulation of S.