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

  • final judgment — judgment (def 8).
  • fine champagne — a high-quality cognac distilled from grapes grown in the Grande Champagne or Petite Champagne vineyards of western France.
  • flagellomaniac — a person who is enthusiastic about or derives (sexual) pleasure from whipping or being whipped
  • flash smelting — a smelting process for sulphur-containing ores in which the dried and powdered ore, mixed with oxygen, is ignited on discharge from a nozzle, melts, and drops to the bottom of a settling chamber. Sulphur is released mainly in its solid form, thus reducing atmospheric pollution
  • flying machine — a vehicle that sustains itself in and propels itself through the air; an airplane, helicopter, glider, or the like.
  • foramen magnum — the large opening in the base of the skull forming the passage from the cranial cavity to the spinal canal.
  • fragmentations — Plural form of fragmentation.
  • fragmentedness — The quality of being fragmented.
  • fragrant sumac — a sprawling shrub, Rhus aromatica, of the cashew family, native to eastern North America, having aromatic foliage and greenish-yellow flowers in small spikes.
  • framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
  • framing square — a steel square usually having on its faces various tables and scales useful to the carpenter.
  • free-machining — (of certain metals) readily machinable at high speeds with low force.
  • gallamine blue — a type of mordant dye
  • galvanotropism — the directional growth of an organism, esp a plant, in response to an electrical stimulus
  • gambling debts — debts acquired as a result of money spent gambling
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • game of chance — a game in which the outcome is determined by chance rather than by the skill of its players, as roulette.
  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
  • gaming licence — a licence that allows an establishment, business, club, etc, to offer games that can be played for money
  • gaming machine — for gambling
  • gamma function — a function defined by Γ(x) = ∫0∞tx–1e–tdt, where x is real and greater than zero
  • gamma globulin — a protein fraction of blood plasma that responds to stimulation of antigens, as bacteria or viruses, by forming antibodies: administered therapeutically in the treatment of some viral diseases.
  • gamma-carotene — one of the forms of the pigment carotene
  • ganglionectomy — the excision of a ganglion.
  • garden webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
  • gaussian image — the point in an optical system with spherical aberration at which the paraxial rays meet.
  • generalissimos — Plural form of generalissimo.
  • generic markup — (text)   In computerised document preparation, a method of adding information to the text indicating the logical components of a document, such as paragraphs, headers or footnotes. SGML is an example of such a system. Specific instructions for layout of the text on the page do not appear in the markup.
  • genetic marker — any distinct inheritable indicator of identity and ancestry.
  • gentian family — the plant family Gentianaceae, typified by herbaceous plants having simple opposite leaves, usually blue flowers with five united petals, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the closed gentian, fringed gentian, centaury, exacum, and marsh pink.
  • geometric mean — the mean of n positive numbers obtained by taking the n th root of the product of the numbers: The geometric mean of 6 and 24 is 12.
  • geometrization — the application of geometrical concepts to a different field
  • george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
  • gerald sussman — (person)   (Gerald J. Sussman, Jerry) A noted hacker at MIT and one of the developers of SCHEME and 6.001.
  • german measles — rubella.
  • german speaker — a person who speaks German
  • germanomethane — (chemistry) germanium tetrahydride.
  • gerrymandering — U.S. Politics. the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible.
  • gewurztraminer — a type of white grape used in winemaking.
  • ginseng family — the plant family Araliaceae, characterized by often prickly herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having alternate leaves and dense clusters of small, whitish or greenish flowers, and including the devil's-club, ginseng, ivy, schefflera, and wild sarsaparilla.
  • glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
  • glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
  • global dimming — a decrease in the amount of sunlight reaching the surface of the earth, believed to be caused by pollution in the atmosphere
  • global warming — an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect.
  • globe amaranth — a plant, Gomphrena globosa, native to the Old World tropics, having dense heads of variously colored flowers that retain their color when cut.
  • gloom and doom — an account or prediction of adversity, especially in economic or business affairs; bad news: a trade journal full of gloom and doom about next year's trends.
  • golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
  • gonadectomized — Having undergone gonadectomy.
  • gone a million — done for; sunk
  • good samaritan — a person who gratuitously gives help or sympathy to those in distress. Luke 10:30–37.
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