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15-letter words containing r, a, g, m

  • image converter — a device for producing a visual image formed by other electromagnetic radiation such as infrared or ultraviolet radiation or X-rays
  • immaterializing — Present participle of immaterialize.
  • imperfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which either no spores or asexual spores, as conidia, are produced.
  • imperial gallon — a British gallon used in liquid and dry measurement equivalent to 1.2 U.S. gallons, or 4.54 liters.
  • impregnableness — The state of being impregnable; impregnability.
  • information age — a period beginning about 1975 and characterized by the gathering and almost instantaneous transmission of vast amounts of information and by the rise of information-based industries.
  • integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
  • interchangement — the act of interchanging
  • intertanglement — the state or condition of being intertangled
  • intransigentism — the policy or set of principles of an intransigent
  • job enlargement — a widening of the range of tasks performed by an employee in order to provide variety in the activities undertaken
  • joint agreement — a formal decision about future action which is made by two or more countries, groups, or people
  • junggrammatiker — a group of linguists of the late 19th century who held that phonetic laws are universally valid and allow of no exceptions; neo-grammarians.
  • juxtaglomerular — (anatomy) Near, or adjoining a renal glomerulus.
  • kissing gourami — a whitish labyrinth fish, Helostoma temmincki, found in southeastern Asia, noted for the habit of pressing its fleshy, protrusible lips against those of another: often kept in aquariums.
  • knapping hammer — a hammer used for breaking and shaping stones
  • largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • laser machining — Laser machining is a process in which material is removed from a surface using light from a laser.
  • lemon-grass oil — a yellowish to brownish oil distilled from the leaves of certain lemon grasses, especially Cymbopogon citratus, used chiefly in perfumery.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • lymphogranuloma — any of certain diseases characterized by granulomatous lesions of lymph nodes.
  • 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.
  • macroaggregated — in the form of a macroaggregate
  • macrophotograph — a photograph taken at very close range
  • 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.
  • magnetoreceptor — The part of an organism responsible for magnetoreception.
  • magnetorheology — the study of the relationships between the particle and fluid properties of magnetic suspensions.
  • 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
  • make a long arm — to reach out for something, as from a sitting position
  • 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.
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