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14-letter words containing m, a, n, g, e

  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
  • submachine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • sugared almond — Sugared almonds are nuts which have been covered with a hard sweet coating.
  • summer tanager — a tanager, Piranga rubra, of the south and central U.S., the male of which is rose-red, the female olive-green above and yellow below.
  • suprasegmental — above, beyond, or in addition to a segment.
  • take a meeting — to attend a business conference
  • tenant farming — farming land owned by sb else
  • terminological — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
  • test marketing — to offer (a new product) for sale, usually in a limited area, in order to ascertain and evaluate consumer response.
  • tetragrammaton — the Hebrew word for God, consisting of the four letters yod, he, vav, and he, transliterated consonantally usually as YHVH, now pronounced as Adonai or Elohim in substitution for the original pronunciation forbidden since the 2nd or 3rd century b.c.
  • text messaging — sending typed mobile phone messages
  • the long march — a journey of about 10 000 km (6000 miles) undertaken (1934–35) by some 100 000 Chinese Communists when they were forced out of their base in Kiangsi in SE China. They made their way to Shensi in NW China; only about 8000 survived the rigours of the journey
  • the mabinogion — a collection of Welsh tales based on old Celtic legends and mythology in which magic and the supernatural play a large part
  • the-mabinogion — a collection of medieval Welsh romances that were translated (1838–49) by Lady Charlotte Guest.
  • thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
  • thermomagnetic — of or relating to the effect of heat on the magnetic properties of a substance.
  • thermostatting — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • thomas youngerThomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
  • time and again — frequently
  • time signature — a numerical or other indication at the beginning of a piece showing the meter.
  • top management — highest level of business leadership
  • turing machine — a hypothetical device with a set of logical rules of computation: the concept is used in mathematical studies of the computability of numbers and in the mathematical theories of automata and computers.
  • unmarriageable — suitable or attractive for marriage: The handsome and successful young man was considered eminently marriageable.
  • unprogrammable — not able to be programmed
  • value judgment — an estimate, usually subjective, of the worth, quality, goodness, evil, etc., of something or someone.
  • voting machine — a mechanical apparatus used in a polling place to register and count the votes.
  • west glamorgan — a county in S Wales. 315 sq. mi. (815 sq. km).
  • wheel clamping — the practice of attaching wheel clamps to vehicles
  • whipping cream — cream with enough butterfat to allow it to be made into whipped cream.
  • white mahogany — an Australian eucalyptus, Eucalyptus acmenioides.
  • wing commander — British. an officer in the Royal Air Force equivalent in rank to a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force.
  • woman suffrage — the right of women to vote; female suffrage.
  • wyoming valley — a valley in NE Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River: Indian massacre 1778.
  • yearly meeting — any of several associations of local Quaker congregations.
  • young marrieds — young married people
  • zonal geranium — a widely cultivated plant, Pelargonium hortorum, having white, pink, or red flowers and rounded leaves that are sometimes banded or blotched with contrasting colors.
  • zygomatic bone — a bone on each side of the face below the eye, forming the prominence of the cheek; cheekbone.
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