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

  • 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
  • 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 equipment — Sampling equipment is equipment which is used to remove small amounts of something for analysis and monitoring.
  • sampling statistic — any function of observed data, esp one used to estimate the corresponding parameter of the underlying distribution, such as the sample mean, sample variance, etc
  • saturation bombing — intense area bombing intended to destroy everything in the target area.
  • security agreement — business: contract
  • self-disparagement — the act of disparaging.
  • self-incriminating — serving to incriminate oneself or to expose oneself to prosecution: self-incriminating testimony.
  • significant symbol — a verbal or nonverbal gesture, as a word or smile, that has acquired a conventionalized meaning.
  • ski-mountaineering — a combination of the sports of skiing and mountaineering, for example by climbing up a mountain then skiing down it
  • societal marketing — marketing that takes into account society's long-term welfare
  • something to spare — a surplus of something
  • specimen signature — a signature to be compared to an original signature in order to verify someone's identity
  • spherical geometry — the branch of geometry that deals with figures on spherical surfaces.
  • standing committee — a permanent committee, as of a legislature, society, etc., intended to consider all matters pertaining to a designated subject.
  • station management — (networking)   (SMT) Station Management One of the 4 key FDDI component layers. SMT is an overlay function that handles the management of the FDDI ring. It handles neighbor identification, fault detection and reconfiguration, insertion and de-insertion from the ring, and traffic statistics monitoring.
  • stinking chamomile — mayweed.
  • stirling's formula — a relation that approximates the value of n factorial (n!), expressed as .
  • strait of magellan — a strait between the mainland of S South America and Tierra del Fuego, linking the S Pacific with the S Atlantic. Length: 600 km (370 miles). Width: up to 32 km (20 miles)
  • sugarloaf mountain — a mountain in SE Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, at the entrance to Guanabara Bay. 1280 feet (390 meters).
  • super giant slalom — a slalom race in which the course is longer and has more widely spaced gates than in a giant slalom.
  • sustaining program — a radio or television program without a commercial sponsor.
  • swarm intelligence — the collective behaviour of a group of animals, esp social insects such as ants, bees, and termites, that are each following very basic rules
  • swedish gymnastics — a system of passive and active exercising of muscles and joints
  • sympathetic string — a thin wire string, as in various obsolete musical instruments, designed to vibrate sympathetically with the bowed or plucked strings to reinforce the sound.
  • system-programming — a program, as an operating system, compiler, or utility program, that controls some aspect of the operation of a computer (opposed to application program).
  • teaching equipment — teaching aids
  • the beautiful game — football
  • the damage is done — If you say 'the damage is done', you mean that it is too late now to prevent the harmful effects of something that has already happened.
  • the magnolia state — a nickname referring to Mississippi
  • the major rogation — April 25, observed by Christians as a day of solemn supplication for the harvest and marked by processions, special prayers, and blessing of the crops
  • the middle passage — the journey across the Atlantic Ocean from the W coast of Africa to the Caribbean: the longest part of the journey of the slave ships sailing to the Caribbean or the Americas
  • third man argument — (in the philosophy of Aristotle) the argument against the existence of Platonic Forms that since the Form of Man is itself a perfect man, a further form (the "third" man) would be required to explain this, and so ad infinitum
  • transmogrification — to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.
  • traveling salesman — a male representative of a business firm who travels in an assigned territory soliciting orders for a company's products or services.
  • two-minute warning — a time-out called by an official to notify both teams that two minutes remain in a half.
  • unit magnetic pole — the unit of magnetic pole strength equal to the strength of a magnetic pole that repels a similar pole with a force of one dyne, the two poles being placed in a vacuum and separated by a distance of one centimeter.
  • urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
  • vosges (mountains) — mountain range in NE France, west of the Rhine: highest peak, c. 4,700 ft (1,433 m)
  • wage determination — the process of setting wage rates or establishing wage structures in particular situations
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