15-letter words containing m, a, r, l, g
- juxtaglomerular — (anatomy) Near, or adjoining a renal glomerulus.
- largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
- laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
- laser machining — Laser machining is a process in which material is removed from a surface using light from a laser.
- lemon-grass oil — a yellowish to brownish oil distilled from the leaves of certain lemon grasses, especially Cymbopogon citratus, used chiefly in perfumery.
- leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
- like grim death — as if afraid for one's life
- limiting factor — Physiology. the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps.
- linear argument — (theory) A function argument which is used exactly once by the function. If the argument is used at most once then it is safe to inline the function and replace the single occurrence of the formal parameter with the actual argument expression. If the argument was used more than once this transformation would duplicate the argument expression, causing it to be evaluated more than once. If the argument is sure to be used at least once then it is safe to evaluate it in advance (see strictness analysis) whereas if the argument was not used then this would waste work and might prevent the program from terminating.
- loading program — a series of instructions entered automatically in a program that starts the processing.
- logarithmically — In a logarithmic manner.
- long parliament — the Parliament that assembled November 3, 1640, was expelled by Cromwell in 1653, reconvened in 1659, and was dissolved in 1660.
- lymphogranuloma — any of certain diseases characterized by granulomatous lesions of lymph nodes.
- macro-sociology — the sociological study of large-scale social systems and long-term patterns and processes.
- magnetoelectric — of or relating to the induction of electric current or electromotive force by means of permanent magnets.
- magnetorheology — the study of the relationships between the particle and fluid properties of magnetic suspensions.
- mail user agent — (messaging) (MUA) The program that allows the user to compose and read electronic mail messages. The MUA provides the interface between the user and the Message Transfer Agent. Outgoing mail is eventually handed over to an MTA for delivery while the incoming messages are picked up from where the MTA left it (although MUA's running on single-user machines may pick up mail using POP). Popular MUAs for Unix include elm, mush, pine, and RMAIL.
- mailing address — postal or delivery address
- make a long arm — to reach out for something, as from a sitting position
- malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
- manual steering — Manual steering is steering in which the driver does all the work, without the help of mechanical power.
- manual training — training in the various manual arts and crafts, as woodworking.
- marginalisation — (British) alternative spelling of marginalization.
- marginalization — to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.
- marigold window — wheel window.
- markup language — a set of standards, as HTML or SGML, used to create an appropriate markup scheme for an electronic document, as to indicate its structure or format.
- marlborough leg — a tapered leg having a square section.
- marriageability — The condition of being marriageable.
- massage parlour — A massage parlour is a place where people go and pay for a massage. Some places that are called massage parlours are in fact places where people pay to have sex.
- master-planning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- measuring glass — a graduated glass container used to measure quantities of liquid
- megalokaryocyte — Megakaryocyte.
- messier catalog — a catalog of nonstellar objects compiled by Charles Messier in 1784 and later slightly extended, now known to contain nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters.
- metallo-organic — organometallic.
- metallurgically — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- microbiological — Of or pertaining to microbiology.
- mineral kingdom — minerals collectively.
- mineralogically — With regard to mineralogy.
- modern language — one of the literary languages currently in use in Europe, as French, Spanish, or German, treated as a departmental course of study in a school, college, or university.
- mollier diagram — a graph showing the enthalpy of a substance as a function of its entropy when some physical property of the substance, as temperature or pressure, is kept at a specified constant value.
- morale-boosting — A morale-boosting action or event makes people feel more confident and cheerful.
- morphologically — the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.
- mortgage lender — a financial institution which provides money to borrowers for mortgages
- mortgage relief — (formerly) a reduction of tax on income being used to pay off a mortgage
- mother language — a language from which another language is descended; parent language.
- mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
- noli me tangere — a person or thing that must not be touched or interfered with.
- noli-me-tangere — a person or thing that must not be touched or interfered with.
- non-grammatical — (of a sentence or expression) not conforming to the grammatical rules of a given language.
- nongovernmental — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.