15-letter words containing g, u, n, m
- image-conscious — concerned about the way one comes across to other people and the impression one creates
- immunodiagnosis — serodiagnosis.
- immunoglobulins — Plural form of immunoglobulin.
- immunohistology — the microscopic study of tissues with the aid of antibodies that bind to tissue components and reveal their presence.
- immunologically — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
- immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
- inhomogeneously — lack of homogeneity.
- junggrammatiker — a group of linguists of the late 19th century who held that phonetic laws are universally valid and allow of no exceptions; neo-grammarians.
- juvenal plumage — the first plumage of birds, composed of contour feathers, which in certain species follows the naked nestling stage and in other species follows the molt of natal down.
- kissing gourami — a whitish labyrinth fish, Helostoma temmincki, found in southeastern Asia, noted for the habit of pressing its fleshy, protrusible lips against those of another: often kept in aquariums.
- leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
- leukaemogenesis — the development of leukaemia
- linear argument — (theory) A function argument which is used exactly once by the function. If the argument is used at most once then it is safe to inline the function and replace the single occurrence of the formal parameter with the actual argument expression. If the argument was used more than once this transformation would duplicate the argument expression, causing it to be evaluated more than once. If the argument is sure to be used at least once then it is safe to evaluate it in advance (see strictness analysis) whereas if the argument was not used then this would waste work and might prevent the program from terminating.
- linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
- luminous energy — light1 (def 2a).
- lump uncurrying — Chin's generalisation of uncurrying. A curried function taking several tuples as arguments can be transformed to take a single tuple containing all the components of the original tuples.
- lymphogranuloma — any of certain diseases characterized by granulomatous lesions of lymph nodes.
- machine gunning — the act of using a machine gun
- macrosporangium — megasporangium.
- magna cum laude — with great praise: used in diplomas to grant the next-to-highest of three special honors for grades above the average.
- magnanimousness — The quality of being magnanimous.
- magnesium light — the strongly actinic white light produced when magnesium is burned: used in photography, signaling, pyrotechnics, etc.
- magnesium oxide — magnesia.
- magnetic bubble — a tiny mobile magnetized area within a magnetic material, the basis of one type of solid-state storage medium (magnetic bubble memory)
- magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
- magnetic pickup — a phonograph pickup in which the vibrations of the stylus cause variations in or motions of a coil in a magnetic field that produces corresponding variations in an electrical voltage.
- magnetic pulley — a magnetic device for separating metal from sand, refuse, etc.
- mail user agent — (messaging) (MUA) The program that allows the user to compose and read electronic mail messages. The MUA provides the interface between the user and the Message Transfer Agent. Outgoing mail is eventually handed over to an MTA for delivery while the incoming messages are picked up from where the MTA left it (although MUA's running on single-user machines may pick up mail using POP). Popular MUAs for Unix include elm, mush, pine, and RMAIL.
- malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
- malpighian tuft — glomerulus (def 2).
- manual steering — Manual steering is steering in which the driver does all the work, without the help of mechanical power.
- manual training — training in the various manual arts and crafts, as woodworking.
- markup language — a set of standards, as HTML or SGML, used to create an appropriate markup scheme for an electronic document, as to indicate its structure or format.
- measuring chain — a flexible length of metal links used in calculating distances
- measuring glass — a graduated glass container used to measure quantities of liquid
- measuring spoon — a spoon for measuring amounts, as in cooking, usually part of a set of spoons of different sizes.
- metalinguistics — the study of the relation between languages and the other cultural systems they refer to.
- methylene group — the bivalent organic group >CH 2 , derived from methane.
- microcentrifuge — A centrifuge used in laboratories to separate materials from small samples (especially of biological material).
- micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
- microsporangium — a sporangium containing microspores.
- microtunnelling — a technique used to excavate tunnels mechanically for the laying of pipes
- mind how you go — Some people say 'Mind how you go' when they are saying goodbye to someone who is leaving.
- minimum tillage — no-tillage.
- modern language — one of the literary languages currently in use in Europe, as French, Spanish, or German, treated as a departmental course of study in a school, college, or university.
- monumentalizing — Present participle of monumentalize.
- moreton bay bug — a flattish edible shellfish, Thenus orientalis, of Northern Australian waters
- mother language — a language from which another language is descended; parent language.
- motoring public — the population that drive road vehicles
- mouse droppings — 1. (graphics, operating system, jargon) Pixels (usually single) that are not properly restored when the mouse pointer moves away from a particular location on the screen, producing the appearance that the mouse pointer has left droppings behind. The major causes for this problem are MS-DOS programs that write to the screen memory corresponding to the mouse pointer's current location without hiding the mouse pointer first, and mouse drivers that do not quite support the graphics mode in use. 2. (web, jargon) The client address recorded in a web server's log whenever a client connects to a site. Users may be unaware that their activity is being logged in this way but the potential for misuse of the information is limited.