15-letter words containing m, r, i, g
- 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.
- linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
- 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.
- luminous energy — light1 (def 2a).
- lump uncurrying — Chin's generalisation of uncurrying. A curried function taking several tuples as arguments can be transformed to take a single tuple containing all the components of the original tuples.
- mackinac bridge — a suspension bridge over the Straits of Mackinac, connecting the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan: one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. 3800-foot (1158-meter) center span; 7400 feet (2256 meters) in total length.
- macro-sociology — the sociological study of large-scale social systems and long-term patterns and processes.
- macrosporangium — megasporangium.
- magic mushrooms — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
- magnesioferrite — (mineralogy) A magnesium iron oxide mineral, a member of the magnetite series of spinels, which forms black metallic octahedral crystals.
- magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
- magnetic mirror — a region in a magnetic bottle where the magnetic field increases abruptly, causing charged particles that enter it to be reflected.
- magnetic stripe — magnetic strip.
- magnetoelectric — of or relating to the induction of electric current or electromotive force by means of permanent magnets.
- 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
- malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
- managing editor — an editor assigned to the supervision and coordination of certain editorial activities of a newspaper, magazine, book publishing company, or the like. Abbreviation: M.E., m.e.
- mandarin orange — mandarin (def 4).
- 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.
- marburg disease — a viral disease producing a severe and often fatal illness with fever, rash, diarrhea, vomiting, and gastrointestinal bleeding, transmitted to humans through contact with infected green monkeys.
- marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
- margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
- margin of error — statistics: variance
- 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.
- marine engineer — an officer who operates, maintains, and repairs the machinery of a ship.
- marriage broker — a person who arranges marriages, usually between strangers, for a fee.
- marriage bureau — an agency that provides introductions to single people seeking a marriage partner
- marriageability — The condition of being marriageable.
- master-planning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- maternity grant — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a flat-rate benefit for pregnant women on low incomes
- measuring chain — a flexible length of metal links used in calculating distances
- measuring glass — a graduated glass container used to measure quantities of liquid
- measuring spoon — a spoon for measuring amounts, as in cooking, usually part of a set of spoons of different sizes.
- megacorporation — a giant company formed from two or more large companies or a number of companies of various sizes.
- 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.
- metric topology — a topology for a space in which open sets are defined in terms of a given metric.
- microaggression — a subtle but offensive comment or action directed at a minority or other nondominant group that is often unintentional or unconsciously reinforces a stereotype: microaggressions such as "I don't see you as black.".
- microangiopathy — any disease of the small blood vessels.
- microbiological — Of or pertaining to microbiology.