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14-letter words containing m, a, g, i

  • beta geminorum — Pollux
  • bildungsromane — a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
  • bioclimatology — the study of the effects of climatic conditions on living organisms
  • biogeochemical — of or relating to biogeochemistry
  • bioregionalism — the conviction that environmental and social policies should be determined by the bioregion rather than economics or politics
  • blind stamping — an impression on a book cover without using colour or gold leaf
  • block sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical literary analysis by random selection of a starting point and consideration of the continuous passage following it
  • boring machine — a machine that bores holes, tunnels, etc
  • bring onstream — To bring onstream a plant, mine, oilfield, etc. is to start production there.
  • bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
  • buying manager — The buying manager of a store is a senior employee whose job is to manage the purchase and delivery of products and supplies, maintaining stock levels.
  • cadmium orange — a yellow color approaching orange.
  • cairngormstone — (mineral, rare) A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, found especially in the mountains of w Cairngorm in Scotland.
  • cambridge blue — a lightish blue colour
  • cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
  • cambridgeshire — a county of E England, in East Anglia: includes the former counties of the Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and lies largely in the Fens: Peterborough became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Cambridge. Pop (excluding Peterborough): 571 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Peterborough): 3068 sq km (184 sq miles)
  • camp fire girl — a girl who is a member of Camp Fire, Inc., an organization for girls founded in 1910, and since 1975 also including boys, to promote character-building activities
  • campaign chest — money collected and set aside for use in a campaign, especially a political one; a campaign fund.
  • campaign medal — a medal awarded for performance of specified service, usually in time of war or national emergency.
  • campaign trail — the series of appearances that a politician makes at different locations as part of a political campaign, esp before an election
  • campina grande — a city in NE Brazil, in E Paraíba state. Pop: 366 000 (2005 est)
  • caprimulgiform — Of or pertaining to the taxonomic order Caprimulgiformes.
  • carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
  • celto-germanic — having the characteristics of both the Celtic and Germanic peoples.
  • change machine — a machine that provides smaller denomination coins or notes in exchange for larger ones
  • chemical agent — an agent that produces chemical reactions
  • chromatic sign — Music. accidental (def 5).
  • cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
  • cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
  • cinemicrograph — a motion picture filmed through a microscope.
  • cinnamon sedge — an angler's name for a small caddis fly, Limnephilus lunatus, having pale hind wings, that frequents sluggish water
  • circumagitated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumagitate.
  • circumgalactic — (astronomy) Surrounding a galaxy.
  • circumgyration — the act of rolling, turning, or travelling about
  • circumgyratory — characterized by circumgyration
  • circumnavigate — If someone circumnavigates the world or an island, they sail all the way around it.
  • circumstancing — Present participle of circumstance.
  • civil marriage — a marriage performed by some official other than a clergyman
  • cleaning woman — A cleaning woman is the same as a cleaning lady.
  • climate change — change occurring in the Earth's overall climate and in particular climates, now regarded as a result of human activity and resulting generally in global warming
  • climatological — the science that deals with the phenomena of climates or climatic conditions.
  • climatologists — Plural form of climatologist.
  • climbing frame — A climbing frame is a structure that has been made for children to climb and play on. It consists of metal or wooden bars joined together.
  • clingmans dome — mountain on the Tenn.-N.C. border; highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains: 6,642 ft (2,024 m)
  • clouded magpie — a geometrid moth, Abraxas sylvata, that is paler than the magpie moth
  • colombian gold — a potent marijuana grown in South America.
  • combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
  • comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
  • commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
  • conglomerating — Present participle of conglomerate.
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