17-letter words containing m, a, g, r, e, t
- 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
- paymaster general — a government minister responsible for making payments by government departments
- 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.
- 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
- picture messaging — Picture messaging is the sending of photographs or pictures from one mobile phone to another.
- popular etymology — folk etymology.
- portfolio manager — a person employed by others to make investments for them
- powder metallurgy — the art or science of manufacturing useful articles by compacting metal and other powders in a die, followed by sintering.
- 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
- putative marriage — a marriage contracted in violation of an impediment, but in good faith on the part of one or both of the contracting persons.
- 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.
- 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 ….
- repeating firearm — a firearm capable of discharging a number of shots without reloading.
- request programme — a programme on the radio where listeners can request certain songs or tracks
- ring-tailed lemur — a Madagascan prosimian primate, Lemur catta, with a long black and white ringed tail
- self-estrangement — to turn away in feeling or affection; make unfriendly or hostile; alienate the affections of: Their quarrel estranged the two friends.
- self-impregnating — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
- senior management — the most senior staff of an organization or business, including the heads of various divisions or departments led by the chief executive
- sentence fragment — a phrase or clause written as a sentence but lacking an element, as a subject or verb, that would enable it to function as an independent sentence in normative written English.
- similar triangles — triangles that are similar due to the equality of corresponding angles and the proportional similarity of the corresponding sides
- 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.
- squeegee merchant — a person who attempts to make money by squeegeeing the windscreens of cars that are stopped at traffic lights and then asking for payment
- statutory meeting — company shareholders' discussion
- steamboat springs — a town in NW Colorado: ski resort.
- stress management — coping with psychological pressure
- sweet mock orange — the syringa, Philadelphus coronarius.
- temperature gauge — a device which shows the temperature or heat of something
- tenancy agreement — property rental contract
- the major leagues — the two main leagues of professional baseball clubs in the U.S., the National League and the American League
- the morning after — the aftereffects of excess, esp a hangover
- thermocoagulation — the coagulation of tissue by heat-producing high-frequency electric currents, used therapeutically to remove small growths or to create specific lesions in the brain.
- threshing machine — a machine for removing grains and seeds from straw and chaff.
- trailing geranium — an ivy-leaved variety of geranium, Pelargonium peltatum
- trigger mechanism — a physiological or psychological process caused by a stimulus and resulting in a usually severe reaction.
- ultimate strength — the quantity of the utmost tensile, compressive, or shearing stress that a given unit area of a certain material is expected to bear without failing.
- urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
- variable-geometry — denoting an aircraft in which the wings are hinged to give the variable aspect ratio colloquially known as a swing-wing
- wire entanglement — a barbed-wire obstacle, usually mounted on posts and zigzagged back and forth along a front, designed to channel, delay, or halt an advance by enemy foot soldiers.
- wrangell-mountain — Mount, an active volcano in SE Alaska, in the Wrangell Mountains. 14,006 feet (4269 meters).
- yesterday morning — during the morning of the day preceding today
- zygomatic process — any of several bony processes that articulate with the cheekbone.