14-letter words containing n, a, g, m
- jamaica ginger — an alcoholic extract of ginger used as a flavoring.
- joint mortgage — a loan of money from a bank or building society to buy a house which two or more people are jointly responsible for repaying
- judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
- kings mountain — a ridge in N South Carolina: American victory over the British 1780.
- knight templar — Templar.
- lacrimal gland — either of two tear-secreting glands situated in the upper outer angle of the orbit.
- lambda lifting — A program transformation to remove free variables. An expression containing a free variable is replaced by a function applied to that variable. E.g. f x = g 3 where g y = y + x x is a free variable of g so it is added as an extra argument: f x = g 3 x where g y x = y + x Functions like this with no free variables are known as supercombinators and are traditionally given upper-case names beginning with "$". This transformation tends to produce many supercombinators of the form f x = g x which can be eliminated by eta reduction and substitution. Changing the order of the parameters may also allow more optimisations. References to global (top-level) constants and functions are not transformed to function parameters though they are technically free variables. A closely related technique is closure conversion. See also Full laziness.
- laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
- last judgement — In the Christian religion, the Last Judgement is the last day of the world when God will judge everyone who has died and decide whether they will go to Heaven or Hell.
- lathing hammer — a hatchet having a small hammer face for trimming and nailing wooden lath.
- leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
- legal document — a document concerning a legal matter; a document drawn up by a lawyer
- legal medicine — the application of medical knowledge to questions of civil and criminal law, especially in court proceedings.
- legitimateness — The quality of being legitimate.
- legitimatizing — Present participle of legitimatize.
- legitimisation — (British) alternative spelling of legitimization.
- legitimization — to make legitimate.
- lemon geranium — a garden geranium, Pelargonium crispum, having lemon-scented leaves.
- lemongrass oil — an aromatic oil made from lemon grass and used in aromatherapy, as a pesticide, and as a preservative
- leptomeningeal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the leptomeninges.
- life-affirming — A life-affirming activity or attitude emphasizes the positive aspects of life.
- light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
- loan agreement — an agreement on the terms of a loan
- logania family — the plant family Loganiaceae, typified by herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs of warm regions having usually opposite leaves, clusters of regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or fleshy fruit, and including the butterfly bush, Carolina jessamine, logania, and trees of the genus Strychnos, which are the source of curare, nux vomica, and strychnine.
- long-neck clam — soft-shell clam.
- long-term care — continuing help and attention
- longshorewoman — a woman employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- lower michigan — the southern part of Michigan, S of the Strait of Mackinac.
- luminous range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible in clear weather, disregarding interference from obstructions and from the curvature of the earth and depending on the power of the light.
- lymphangiogram — an X-ray of the lymphatic system taken after a contrast agent has been injected, often used to diagnose lymphoma
- lymphoglandula — (anatomy) An alternative name for a lymph node.
- m'naghten test — a rule that defines a person as legally insane when that person cannot distinguish right from wrong.
- macro-organism — an organism that can be seen with the naked eye.
- macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
- macromarketing — marketing concerning all marketing as a whole, marketing systems, and the mutual effect that society and marketing systems have on each other
- macrosporangia — Plural form of macrosporangium.
- magic mountain — a novel (1924) by Thomas Mann.
- magistral line — the line from which the position of the other lines of fieldworks is determined.
- magnetic chart — a chart showing the magnetic properties of a portion of the earth's surface, as dip, variation, and intensity.
- magnetic epoch — a geologically long period of time during which the magnetic field of the earth retains the same polarity. The magnetic field may reverse during such a period for a geologically short period of time (a magnetic event)
- magnetic field — a region of space near a magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle in which a magnetic force acts on any other magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle.
- magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
- magnetic north — north as indicated by a magnetic compass, differing in most places from true north.
- magnetic storm — a temporary disturbance of the earth's magnetic field, induced by radiation and streams of charged particles from the sun.
- magnetic strip — a strip of magnetic material on which information may be stored, as by an electromagnetic process, for automatic reading, decoding, or recognition by a device that detects magnetic variations on the strip: a credit card with a magnetic strip to prevent counterfeiting.
- magnetooptical — Having both magnetic and optical elements.
- magnetospheres — Plural form of magnetosphere.
- magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
- magnetostatics — the branch of magnetics that deals with magnetic fields that do not vary with time (magnetostatic fields)
- magnifications — Plural form of magnification.