14-letter words containing s, a, g, n
- longleat house — an Elizabethan mansion near Warminster in Wiltshire, built (from 1568) by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne; the grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown, now contain a famous safari park
- longshorewoman — a woman employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- lopping shears — long-handled pruning shears.
- lose one's rag — If you lose your rag, you suddenly become so angry that you are not in control of yourself.
- low-angle shot — a shot taken with the camera placed in a position below and pointing upward at the subject.
- lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
- lu-wang school — School of Mind.
- 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.
- lysogenization — the process of a bacterium becoming lysogenic
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- magnolia state — Mississippi (used as a nickname).
- manageableness — The state of being manageable; tractableness; docility.
- managed forest — a sustainable forest in which usually at least one tree is planted for every tree felled
- manganese spar — Mineralogy. rhodonite or rhodochrosite.
- mangrove swamp — a coastal marine swamp of tropical or subtropical regions that is dominated by mangrove trees.
- manslaughterer — (legal) Someone who commits manslaughter.
- 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).
- market segment — a part of a market identifiable as having particular customers with specific buying characteristics
- marking scheme — a plan or guidelines used in the marking of school children's or students' written work by teaching staff
- marriage bonds — the strong feeling of being united that is associated with marriage
- marrons glaces — chestnuts cooked in syrup and glazed
- mass marketing — the organization of the sale of a product to a large number of people
- masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- matjes herring — young herring that have not spawned, often prepared with vinegar, sugar, salt, and spices.
- meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- measuring worm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
- megasporangium — a sporangium containing megaspores.
- menage a trois — a domestic arrangement in which three people having sexual relations occupy the same household.
- message center — an office or other area where incoming and outgoing messages, mail, etc., are received and transmitted, as by telephone, computer, or messenger.
- metal spraying — a process in which a layer of one metal is sprayed onto another in the molten state
- metalinguistic — Pertaining to metalinguistics.
- metamorphosing — to change the form or nature of; transform.
- micro-organism — any organism too small to be viewed by the unaided eye, as bacteria, protozoa, and some fungi and algae.
- micromagnetism — (physics) The study of magnetism at the sub-micrometre scale.
- microorganisms — any organism too small to be viewed by the unaided eye, as bacteria, protozoa, and some fungi and algae.
- microsporangia — Plural form of microsporangium.
- midnight feast — a snack or many snacks eaten around midnight
- mie scattering — the scattering of light by particles that are large relative to the wavelength of the light.