17-letter words containing m, u, g, i, n
- instrument flying — the control and navigation of an aircraft by reference to its gauges, with no or only limited visual reference outside the cockpit.
- judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
- jumping-off place — a place for use as a starting point: Paris was the jumping-off place for our tour of Europe.
- jumping-off point — A jumping-off point or a jumping-off place is a place, situation, or occasion which you use as the starting point for something.
- khingan mountains — a mountain system of NE China, in W Manchuria. Highest peak: 2034 m (6673 ft)
- langmuir isotherm — A Langmuir isotherm is a classical relationship between the concentrations of a solid and a fluid, used to describe a state of no change in the sorption process.
- light machine gun — any air-cooled machine gun having a caliber not greater than 0.30 inches (7.6 mm).
- macro-linguistics — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
- magellanic clouds — either of two irregular galactic clusters in the southern heavens that are the nearest independent star system to the Milky Way.
- magnesium sulfate — a white, water-soluble salt, MgSO 4 , used chiefly in medicine and in the processing of leather and textiles.
- many-valued logic — the study of logical systems in which the truth-values that a proposition may have are not restricted to two, representing only truth and falsity
- marriage guidance — counselling for married couples
- mercury poisoning — illness caused by exposure to mercury
- metatungstic acid — an oxyacid acid of tungsten. Formula: H2W4O13
- methylidyne group — the trivalent group ≡CH.
- millennium bridge — a steel bridge for pedestrians over the River Thames linking the City of London at St Paul's Cathedral with the Tate Modern Gallery at Bankside: it has a span of 325 m (1056 ft)
- misunderstandings — Plural form of misunderstanding.
- modeling language — modelling language
- montagu's harrier — a brownish European bird of prey, Circus pygargus, with long narrow wings and a long tail: family Accipitridae (hawks, harriers, etc)
- mountain mahogany — any of a genus (Cercocarpus) of W North American shrubs or small trees of the rose family, with lobed leaves and single dry fruits
- multigenerational — of or relating to several generations, as of a family, or society: a multigenerational novel covering 300 years.
- multiple cropping — the use of the same field for two or more crops, whether of the same or of different kinds, successively during a single year.
- multiple integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of more than one variable and which requires for evaluation repetition of the integration process.
- natural logarithm — a logarithm having e as a base. Symbol: ln.
- ngaliema mountain — Mount, a mountain with two summits, in central Africa, between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo: highest peak in the Ruwenzori group. 16,790 feet (5119 meters).
- non-argumentative — fond of or given to argument and dispute; disputatious; contentious: The law students were an unusually argumentative group.
- number eight iron — a club with an iron head the face of which has more slope than a pitcher but less slope than a niblick.
- number eight wire — a standard gauge of fencing wire
- numbering machine — a handheld device for stamping numbers onto objects
- opening arguments — the statements or arguments provided by lawyers at the beginning of a trial
- optical computing — (hardware) (Or "Optical Signal Processing") Operating on data represented using electromagnetic radiation, e.g. visible light, instead of the electrical signals used in a conventional electronic digital computer. Electronic digital computers are built from transistors. These form components that store data and logic gates that perform the low-level Boolean operations such as AND, OR and NOT that are the basis of all digital computation. The optical equivalent requires material with a non-linear refractive index such that light beams can interact with each other to perform the same Boolean operations. Though the photons that carry optical signals offer some theoretical advantages over the electrons that carry electronic signals, there are many practical problems that would have to be overcome before optical computing could compete in terms of cost, power and speed.
- outline agreement — a contract, etc, setting out the preliminary terms or guidelines for an agreement; a preliminary agreement
- permutation group — a mathematical group whose elements are permutations and in which the product of two permutations is the same permutation as is obtained by performing them in succession.
- picture messaging — Picture messaging is the sending of photographs or pictures from one mobile phone to another.
- plumbing fixtures — things such as pipes, sinks, toilets that are fixed in position in a building
- programming fluid — (jargon) (Or "wirewater") Coffee, unleaded coffee (decaffeinated), Cola, or any caffeinacious stimulant. Many hackers consider these essential for those all-night hacking runs.
- quantum computing — quantum computer
- recurring decimal — Mathematics. repeating decimal.
- ring-tailed lemur — a Madagascan prosimian primate, Lemur catta, with a long black and white ringed tail
- sandringham house — a residence of the royal family, in Sandringham, a village in E England, in Norfolk near the E shore of the Wash
- self-priming pump — A self-priming pump is a pump that will clear its passages of air and start pumping.
- single supplement — A single supplement is an additional sum of money that a hotel charges for one person to stay in a room meant for two people.
- sliding vane pump — A sliding vane pump is a pump in which the vanes (=flat parts) are the main sealing element between the suction and discharge areas.
- smoothing circuit — a circuit used to remove ripple from the output of a direct current power supply
- south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
- statutory meeting — company shareholders' discussion
- string instrument — a musical instrument that has strings, such as the violin or cello
- symbolic language — a specialized language dependent upon the use of symbols for communication and created for the purpose of achieving greater exactitude, as in symbolic logic or mathematics.
- telecommunicating — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
- thermocoagulation — the coagulation of tissue by heat-producing high-frequency electric currents, used therapeutically to remove small growths or to create specific lesions in the brain.