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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.
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