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18-letter words containing m, a, r, i, g

  • minority programme — a programme that appeals to a minority of the available audience
  • moccasin telegraph — the transmission of rumour or secret information; the grapevine
  • molecular genetics — a subdivision of genetics concerned with the structure and function of genes at the molecular level.
  • monographic series — a series of monographs issued in uniform style or format and related by subject or by issuing agency.
  • montgomery village — a city in central Maryland.
  • morning-after pill — a contraceptive pill containing only an estrogen and used by women within a few hours after sexual intercourse.
  • mortgage insurance — policy to compensate for property loan payments
  • moving bed reactor — A moving bed reactor is a reactor in which a layer of catalyst in the form of granules is moved between a reaction area and a regeneration area.
  • national agreement — written formal agreements covering rates of pay and other terms and conditions of employment that are the result of collective bargaining at national level between one or more trade unions and employers in a sector of the economy
  • national guardsman — guardsman (def 2).
  • neo-pythagoreanism — a philosophical system, established in Alexandria and Rome in the second century b.c., consisting mainly of revived Pythagorean doctrines with elements of Platonism and Stoicism.
  • nightmare scenario — If you describe a situation or event as a nightmare scenario, you mean that it is the worst possible thing that could happen.
  • no laughing matter — sth serious
  • nonpharmacological — Not pharmacological.
  • of your own making — If you say that something such as a problem you have is of your own making, you mean you have caused or created it yourself.
  • operations manager — business director
  • order of magnitude — You can use order of magnitude when you are giving an approximate idea of the amount or importance of something.
  • osteogenic sarcoma — osteosarcoma
  • overnight telegram — a type of domestic telegram sent at a reduced rate with a minimum charge for 10 words or less and accepted until midnight for delivery the following day.
  • palmer archipelago — a group of islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, off the NW coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
  • parachute regiment — an airborne regiment of an army
  • parallel computing — parallel processing
  • parallel importing — the importing of certain goods, esp pharmaceutical drugs, by dealers who undersell local manufacturers
  • pemphigus vulgaris — a potentially fatal blistering skin disease, characterized by large blisters on the skin, mucous membranes of the mouth, genitals, intestines, etc, which eventually rupture and form painful denuded areas from which critical amounts of bodily protein, fluid, and blood may be lost
  • perceptual mapping — the use of a graph or map in the development of a new product, in which the proximity of consumers' images of the new product to those of an ideal product provide an indication of the new product's likely success
  • phantasmagorically — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
  • plane trigonometry — the branch of trigonometry dealing with plane triangles.
  • pragmatic sanction — any one of various imperial decrees with the effect of fundamental law.
  • primate of england — a title of the archbishop of Canterbury.
  • principal argument — the radian measure of the argument between −π and π of a complex number. Compare argument (def 8c).
  • production manager — a supervisor of the budget, crew and other details in the production of a film or play
  • programme planning — the act of creating plans or schedules, esp in relation to your occupation
  • programming skills — the skills required to write a program so that data may be processed by a computer
  • promotion campaign — a campaign designed to encourage the sale of (a product) by advertising or securing financial support
  • propaganda machine — the group of people, publications, etc, such as of a government, country etc, responsible for the organized dissemination of information, allegations, etc, to assist or damage the cause of a government, movement, etc
  • radiometric dating — any method of determining the age of earth materials or objects of organic origin based on measurement of either short-lived radioactive elements or the amount of a long-lived radioactive element plus its decay product.
  • reciprocating pump — A reciprocating pump is a pump which uses a backward and forward movement to move a fluid.
  • recruitment agency — company that places job candidates
  • reggio nell'emilia — a city in N Italy.
  • registered company — a company which has officially registered its business
  • remanent magnetism — magnetization in minerals induced by a former magnetic field and persisting after the field changes.
  • replacement engine — an engine used to replace or substitute an older or broken engine (in a vehicle, etc)
  • residual magnetism — remanence.
  • retrograde amnesia — a memory disorder characterized by an inability to remember events or experiences that occurred before a significant point in time.
  • rhyming dictionary — a specialist dictionary organized by the final sounds of words, used to write poetry
  • roman congregation — any of the executive departments of the Curia Romana as the administration of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • rotational molding — a method for molding hollow plastic objects by placing finely divided particles in a hollow mold that is rotated about two axes, exposing it to heat and then to cold.
  • running commentary — non-stop description of sth
  • running martingale — martingale (def 2).
  • sampling frequency — sample rate
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