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17-letter words containing m, u, r, g, e

  • margaret of anjou — 1430–82, queen of Henry VI of England.
  • marriage equality — the state of having the same rights and responsibilities of marriage as others, regardless of one's sexual orientation or gender identity.
  • marriage guidance — counselling for married couples
  • medicochirurgical — pertaining to medicine and surgery.
  • mercury poisoning — illness caused by exposure to mercury
  • messier catalogue — a catalogue of 103 nonstellar objects, such as nebulae and galaxies, prepared in 1781–86. An object is referred to by its number in this catalogue, for example the Andromeda Galaxy is referred to as M31
  • 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.
  • modest mussorgski — Modest Petrovich [moh-dest pi-troh-vich;; Russian muh-dyest pyi-traw-vyich] /moʊˈdɛst pɪˈtroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian mʌˈdyɛst pyɪˈtrɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Moussorgsky, Modest Petrovich.
  • molecular biology — the branch of biology that deals with the nature of biological phenomena at the molecular level through the study of DNA and RNA, proteins, and other macromolecules involved in genetic information and cell function, characteristically making use of advanced tools and techniques of separation, manipulation, imaging, and analysis.
  • montagu's harrier — a brownish European bird of prey, Circus pygargus, with long narrow wings and a long tail: family Accipitridae (hawks, harriers, etc)
  • 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.
  • mundane astrology — the astrology of worldly events, in contrast to the astrology of the individual: used especially in interpretations and forecasts involving politics, the stock market, weather, and disasters.
  • neuropharmacology — the branch of pharmacology concerned with the effects of drugs on the nervous system.
  • 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
  • outline agreement — a contract, etc, setting out the preliminary terms or guidelines for an agreement; a preliminary agreement
  • performance drugs — the drugs that are taken illegally by athletes to enhance their sporting performance
  • 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
  • popular etymology — folk etymology.
  • powder metallurgy — the art or science of manufacturing useful articles by compacting metal and other powders in a die, followed by sintering.
  • putative marriage — a marriage contracted in violation of an impediment, but in good faith on the part of one or both of the contracting persons.
  • queen's messenger — a person who takes dispatches to or from the sovereign
  • recurring decimal — Mathematics. repeating decimal.
  • request programme — a programme on the radio where listeners can request certain songs or tracks
  • 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.
  • sound spectrogram — a graphic representation, produced by a sound spectrograph, of the frequency, intensity, duration, and variation with time of the resonance of a sound or series of sounds.
  • south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • squeegee merchant — a person who attempts to make money by squeegeeing the windscreens of cars that are stopped at traffic lights and then asking for payment
  • statutory meeting — company shareholders' discussion
  • string instrument — a musical instrument that has strings, such as the violin or cello
  • temperature gauge — a device which shows the temperature or heat of something
  • the humber bridge — a single-span suspension bridge (1981) that crosses the Humber, with a main span of 1410 m (4626 ft)
  • the major leagues — the two main leagues of professional baseball clubs in the U.S., the National League and the American League
  • 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.
  • trailing geranium — an ivy-leaved variety of geranium, Pelargonium peltatum
  • ultimate strength — the quantity of the utmost tensile, compressive, or shearing stress that a given unit area of a certain material is expected to bear without failing.
  • uncomprehendingly — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
  • underground movie — a movie produced independently on a low budget and often using experimental techniques and avant-garde themes.
  • universal grammar — a grammar that attempts to establish the properties and constraints common to all possible human languages.
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