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14-letter words containing s, a, g, i, n, m

  • flash smelting — a smelting process for sulphur-containing ores in which the dried and powdered ore, mixed with oxygen, is ignited on discharge from a nozzle, melts, and drops to the bottom of a settling chamber. Sulphur is released mainly in its solid form, thus reducing atmospheric pollution
  • fragmentations — Plural form of fragmentation.
  • framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
  • framing square — a steel square usually having on its faces various tables and scales useful to the carpenter.
  • galvanotropism — the directional growth of an organism, esp a plant, in response to an electrical stimulus
  • gambling debts — debts acquired as a result of money spent gambling
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • gaussian image — the point in an optical system with spherical aberration at which the paraxial rays meet.
  • generalissimos — Plural form of generalissimo.
  • ginseng family — the plant family Araliaceae, characterized by often prickly herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having alternate leaves and dense clusters of small, whitish or greenish flowers, and including the devil's-club, ginseng, ivy, schefflera, and wild sarsaparilla.
  • glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
  • good samaritan — a person who gratuitously gives help or sympathy to those in distress. Luke 10:30–37.
  • gosling, james — James Gosling
  • granulomatosis — any disease characterized by the formation of numerous granulomas.
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • haematogenesis — (physiology) The origin and development of blood.
  • heating system — a system that provides heat to a building or number of buildings
  • hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
  • highland games — a meeting in which competitions in sport, piping, and dancing are held: originating in the Highlands of Scotland
  • homogenisation — Alternative spelling of homogenization.
  • housing market — property trade
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hypophalangism — the condition of having fewer than the normal number of phalanges per finger or toe.
  • imaginary axis — the vertical axis in an Argand diagram.
  • immunostaining — (uncountable, immunology) Any of several staining techniques that are used to detect specific proteins.
  • in a good seam — doing well, esp financially
  • intersegmental — of, relating to, or characterized by segments or segmentation.
  • isthmian games — one of the great national festivals of ancient Greece, held every two years on the Isthmus of Corinth.
  • judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
  • kings mountain — a ridge in N South Carolina: American victory over the British 1780.
  • laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
  • leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
  • legitimateness — The quality of being legitimate.
  • legitimisation — (British) alternative spelling of legitimization.
  • lemongrass oil — an aromatic oil made from lemon grass and used in aromatherapy, as a pesticide, and as a preservative
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • 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.
  • macro-organism — an organism that can be seen with the naked eye.
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
  • macrosporangia — Plural form of macrosporangium.
  • magistral line — the line from which the position of the other lines of fieldworks is determined.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • magnolia state — Mississippi (used as a nickname).
  • manual testing — (testing)   That part of software testing that requires human input, analysis, or evaluation.
  • maraging steel — a low-carbon steel that has been heated and quenched to form martensite: contains up to 25 percent nickel.
  • marginal hacks — (humour)   Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the D.C. Power Lab).
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