15-letter words containing n, y, m
- 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.
- fair employment — the policy or practice of employing people on the basis of their capabilities only, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.
- faith community — a community of people sharing the same religious faith
- family business — company owned and run by a family
- family division — a division of the High Court of Justice dealing with divorce, the rights of access to children, etc
- family grouping — a system, used usually in the infant school, of grouping children of various ages together, esp for project work
- family planning — the concept or a program of limiting the size of families through the spacing or prevention of pregnancies, especially for economic reasons.
- family skeleton — a closely guarded family secret
- ferromolybdenum — a ferroalloy containing up to 60 percent molybdenum.
- 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.
- finance company — an institution engaged in such specialized forms of financing as purchasing accounts receivable, extending credit to retailers and manufacturers, discounting installment contracts, and granting loans with goods as security.
- flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
- flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
- flying jib boom — an extension on a jib boom, to which a flying jib is fastened.
- for one's money — any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
- fortysomethings — Plural form of fortysomething.
- french mulberry — a shrub, Callicarpa americana, of the verbena family, of the south-central U.S. and the West Indies, having violet-colored fruit and bluish flowers.
- full employment — all of workforce is employed
- fuzzy computing — fuzzy logic
- gastronomically — the art or science of good eating.
- gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.
- geomagnetically — In a geomagnetic way; through geomagnetism.
- 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.
- 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.
- give a monkey's — to care about or regard as important
- glen canyon dam — Adam Clayton, Jr. 1908–72, U.S. clergyman, politician, and civil-rights leader: congressman 1945–67, 1969–71.
- glycaemic index — an index indicating the effects of various foods on blood sugar. Fast-releasing foods that raise blood sugar levels quickly are high on the index, while slow-releasing foods, at the bottom of the index, give a slow but sustained release of sugar
- gorlin syndrome — a rare congenital disorder in which cancer destroys the facial skin and causes blindness; skeletal anomalies can also occur
- governmentality — (sociology) The organized practices (mentalities, rationalities, and techniques) through which subjects are governed and influenced.
- gramophonically — in a gramophonic manner
- gravity anomaly — a deviation from the normal value of gravity at the earth's surface, caused by density differences at depth, for example those caused by a buried mineral body
- guidance system — The guidance system of a missile or rocket is the device which controls its course.
- gynandromorphic — (of an organism) Having male and female characteristics.
- hamersley range — a mountain range in N Western Australia: iron-ore deposits. Highest peak: 1236 m (4056 ft)
- hard mint candy — a hardened mint-flavoured sweet
- haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- hemadynamometer — An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury.
- hematoporphyrin — a porphyrin made by treating haemoglobin with acid, used to treat cancer in photodynamic therapy
- hemicraniectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of half of the cranium to enable brain surgery; hemicraniotomy.
- hemodynamically — With regard to hemodynamics.
- hermeneutically — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- high and mighty — self-important, arrogant
- high-and-mighty — haughty; arrogant.
- holding company — a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations (distinguished from parent company).
- honeycomb tripe — a part of the inner lining of the stomach of the steer, calf, hog, or sheep, resembling a honeycomb in appearance and considered a table delicacy.
- honeymoon suite — a luxurious suite in a hotel designed for honeymooners
- how do you mean — If you say 'How do you mean?' to someone, you are asking them to explain or give more details of what they have just said.
- hughes syndrome — a condition of the autoimmune system caused by antibodies reacting against phospholipids, leading to thrombosis
- human geography — the study of the interaction between human beings and their environment in particular places and across spatial areas.
- hydrodynamicist — a specialist in hydrodynamics.