18-letter words containing m, e, r, g, s
- government housing — housing owned and managed by the federal or state government, which is rented out to tenants, esp as a form of affordable housing
- gravity escapement — an escapement, used especially in large outdoor clocks, in which the impulse is given to the pendulum by means of a weight falling through a certain distance.
- gray manganese ore — manganite.
- grease the palm of — to influence by giving money to; bribe
- greater manchester — a metropolitan county in central England, with the city of Manchester as its center. 498 sq. mi. (1290 sq. km).
- green-eyed monster — jealousy: Othello fell under the sway of the green-eyed monster.
- greenhouse warming — the increase in the mean temperature of the earth attributed to the greenhouse effect
- grist for the mill — If you say that something is grist for the mill, you mean that it is useful for a particular purpose or helps support someone's point of view.
- gulf stream system — a major ocean-current system consisting of the Gulf Stream and the Florida and North Atlantic currents.
- gum digger's spear — a long steel probe used by gum diggers digging for kauri gum
- higher mathematics — the advanced portions of mathematics, customarily considered as embracing all beyond ordinary arithmetic, geometry, algebra, and trigonometry.
- hungry programmers — (body) A group of programmers producing free software.
- hypodermic syringe — a small glass piston or barrel syringe having a detachable, hollow needle for use in injecting solutions subcutaneously.
- instrument landing — an aircraft landing accomplished by use of gauges on the instrument panel and ground-based radio equipment, with limited reference to outside visual signals.
- investment manager — financial advisor
- james-lange theory — a theory that emotions are caused by bodily sensations; for example, we are sad because we weep
- king james version — Authorized Version.
- lagrange's theorem — the theorem that the order of each subgroup of a finite group is a factor of the order of the group.
- limburger (cheese) — a semisoft cheese of whole milk, with a strong odor and flavor, made originally in Limburg, Belgium
- low-start mortgage — a mortgage in which interest only is repaid for a fixed period at the outset, to make it more affordable
- madagascar jasmine — a Madagascan twining, woody vine, Stephanotis floribunda, of the milkweed family, having waxy-white, fragrant flowers.
- magistrate's court — a court having limited jurisdiction over minor civil and criminal matters, as matters of contract not exceeding a particular amount of money.
- magistrates' court — law: handles minor crimes
- magnesium arsenate — a white, water-insoluble powder, Mg 3 (AsO 4) 2 ⋅xH 2 O, used chiefly as an insecticide.
- magnesium peroxide — a white, tasteless, water-insoluble powder, MgO 2 , used as an antiseptic and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
- magnesium stearate — Magnesium stearate is a salt that is often used as a diluent and lubricant in tablets and capsules.
- magnetic resonance — the response by atoms, molecules, or nuclei subjected to a magnetic field to radio waves or other forms of energy: used in medicine for scanning
- magnetocrystalline — (physics) Describing the interaction between the magnetization and the crystal structure of a material.
- manufactured goods — products made by machine
- manufacturing base — the manufacturing industries of an area or a country considered as a unit and a constituent part of the economy
- margaret of valois — ("Queen Margot") 1533–1615, 1st wife of Henry IV of France: queen of Navarre; patron of science and literature (daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici).
- marketing research — the study of influences upon customer and consumer behaviour and the analysis of market characteristics and trends
- marketing strategy — a general plan or set of plans dealing with marketing, especially over a long period
- materials handling — the loading, unloading, and movement of goods, as within a factory or warehouse, especially by the aid of mechanical devices.
- member of congress — law: elected representative
- menthol cigarettes — cigarettes that are flavoured with menthol
- micrometeorologist — a person who specializes in micrometeorology
- microsoft exchange — (messaging) Microsoft's messaging and enterprise collaboration server. Exchange's primary role is as an electronic mail message store but it can also store calendars, task lists, contact details, and other data.
- middleburg heights — a town in N Ohio.
- 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.
- moog (synthesizer) — an early musical synthesizer
- mortgage insurance — policy to compensate for property loan payments
- multi-user dungeon — Multi-User Dimension
- 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.
- new storage system — (storage) (NSS) A major Multics implementation project during the 1970s. The initial Multics file system design had evolved from the one-huge-disk world of CTSS. When multiple disk units were used they were just assigned increasing ranges of disk addresses, so a segment could have pages scattered over all disks on the system. This provided good I/O parallelism but made crash recovery expensive. NSS redesigned the lower levels of the file system, introducing the concepts of logical volume and physical volume and a mapping from a Multics directory branch to a VTOC entry for each file. The new system had much better recovery performance in exchange for a small space and performance cost.
- 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.
- operations manager — business director
- osteogenic sarcoma — osteosarcoma