15-letter words containing m, i, g, r, a, n
- criminal damage — intentionally damaging property that belongs to someone else, including public property
- culture jamming — a form of political and social activism which, by means of fake adverts, hoax news stories, pastiches of company logos and product labels, computer hacking, etc, draws attention to and at the same time subverts the power of the media, governments, and large corporations to control and distort the information that they give to the public in order to promote consumerism, militarism, etc
- cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
- customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
- deagglomeration — Deagglomeration is the process of breaking up agglomerates.
- decriminalising — Present participle of decriminalise.
- decriminalizing — (rare) present participle of decriminalize To change the laws so something is no longer a crime.
- defragmentation — (computing) The action of defragmenting, particularly with respect to a computer disk or drive.
- deglamorization — the act or process of making less glamorous
- dematerializing — Present participle of dematerialize.
- demi-vegetarian — a person who eats poultry and fish, but no red meat
- diagonal matrix — a square matrix in which all the entries except those along the diagonal from upper left to lower right are zero.
- disembarrassing — Present participle of disembarrass.
- draughtsmanship — (British) alternative spelling of draftsmanship.
- dryland farming — a mode of farming, practiced in regions of slight or insufficient rainfall, that relies mainly on tillage methods rendering the soil more receptive of moisture and on the selection of suitable crops.
- dynamic pricing — the practice of offering goods at a price that changes according to the level of demand, the type of customer, the state of the weather, etc
- dynamic routing — (networking) (Or "adaptive routing") Routing that adjusts automatically to network topology or traffic changes.
- electromagnetic — Of or relating to the interrelation of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
- electronic game — any of various small handheld computerized games, usually battery-operated, having a small screen on which graphics are displayed and buttons to operate the game
- emerging market — a financial or consumer market in a newly developing country or former communist country
- engagement ring — ring worn by bride-to-be
- ewing's sarcoma — a form of malignant bone tumour most commonly found in children and young people
- examining board — an organization that sets and corrects exams
- factory farming — Factory farming is a system of farming which involves keeping animals indoors, often with very little space, and giving them special foods so that they grow more quickly or produce more eggs or milk.
- family grouping — a system, used usually in the infant school, of grouping children of various ages together, esp for project work
- fantasmagorical — Alternative form of phantasmagorical.
- feynman diagram — a network of lines that represents a series of emissions and absorptions of elementary particles by other elementary particles, from which the probability of the series can be calculated.
- fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
- figurate number — a number having the property that the same number of equally spaced dots can be arranged in the shape of a regular geometrical figure.
- first gentleman — (often initial capital letters) the husband of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
- flame hardening — the surface hardening of ferrous metals by heating the metal with an oxyacetylene flame followed by rapid cooling
- flamingo-flower — a central American plant, Anthurium scherzeranum, of the arum family, having a red, coiled spadix and a bright red, shiny, heart-shaped spathe, grown as an ornamental.
- flowering maple — any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Abutilon, of the mallow family, having large, bright-colored flowers.
- fragmentariness — The quality of being fragmentary.
- french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
- gambier islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean, in French Polynesia. Chief settlement: Rikitéa. Pop: 1097 (2002). Area: 30 sq km (11 sq miles)
- gaming platform — a computer system specially made for playing video games; a console: The new gaming platforms have much better graphics resolution than previous generation consoles.
- gamma radiation — a photon of penetrating electromagnetic radiation (gamma radiation) emitted from an atomic nucleus.
- garage mechanic — sb employed to repair vehicles
- gastronomically — the art or science of good eating.
- general meeting — business: for all members
- gerald mulligan — Gerald Joseph ("Gerry"; "Jeru") 1927–96, U.S. jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer.
- geranium family — the plant family Geraniaceae, typified by herbaceous plants or small shrubs having lobed leaves, showy flowers, and slender, beak-shaped fruit, and including the crane's-bills, stork's-bills, and cultivated geraniums of the genus Pelargonium.
- german-speaking — able to speak German
- gesneria family — the plant family Gesneriaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having a basal rosette of usually toothed leaves, tubular two-lipped flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the African violet, gloxinia, and streptocarpus.
- gingerbread man — biscuit in the shape of a man
- girlie magazine — soft porn magazine
- glass harmonica — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated, revolving glass bowls, the rims of which are moistened and set in vibration by friction from the fingertips.
- glass menagerie — a play (1945) by Tennessee Williams.
- golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)