16-letter words containing s, g, r, a, m
- horseshoe magnet — a horseshoe-shaped permanent magnet.
- hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
- image processing — (graphics) Computer manipulation of images. Some of the many algorithms used in image processing include convolution (on which many others are based), FFT, DCT, thinning (or skeletonisation), edge detection and contrast enhancement. These are usually implemented in software but may also use special purpose hardware for speed. Image processing contrasts with computer graphics, which is usually more concerned with the generation of artificial images, and visualisation, which attempts to understand (real-world) data by displaying it as an artificial image (e.g. a graph). Image processing is used in image recognition and computer vision. See also Pilot European Image Processing Archive.
- immigration laws — regulations on incoming foreigners
- immoral earnings — money earned from work that transgresses accepted moral or legal rules
- import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
- in general terms — generally, approximately
- in large measure — If something is true in some measure or in large measure, it is partly or mostly true.
- indiscriminating — not discriminating.
- investment grant — a direct subsidy made by a government to a business in order to enable it to make further investment
- james oglethorpe — James Edward, 1696–1785, British general: founder of the colony of Georgia.
- kamerlingh onnes — Heike [hahy-kuh] /ˈhaɪ kə/ (Show IPA), 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: Nobel Prize 1913.
- kamerlingh-onnes — Heike (ˈhaɪkə). 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: a pioneer of the physics of low-temperature materials and discoverer (1911) of superconductivity. Nobel prize for physics 1913
- kingdom of arles — a kingdom in SE France which had dissolved by 1378: known as the Kingdom of Burgundy until about 1200
- macro-linguistic — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
- macrolinguistics — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
- magnesiochromite — (mineral) A chromite species with the formula MgCr2O4.
- magnetic pyrites — Mineralogy. pyrrhotite.
- magnetochemistry — the study of magnetic and chemical phenomena in their relation to one another.
- magnetoreceptors — Plural form of magnetoreceptor.
- magnetoresistive — Of or pertaining to magnetoresistance.
- magnetostriction — a change in dimensions exhibited by ferromagnetic materials when subjected to a magnetic field.
- magnetostrictive — Of or pertaining to magnetostriction.
- malacostracology — (obsolete) carcinology, the study of crustaceans.
- man-eating shark — any shark known to attack humans, especially the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias.
- managerial staff — staff in positions of management
- manganese bronze — an alloy that is about 55 percent copper, 40 percent zinc, and up to 3.5 percent manganese.
- mangrove snapper — gray snapper.
- manhood suffrage — the right of adult male citizens to vote
- manufactured gas — a gaseous fuel created from coal, oil, etc., as differentiated from natural gas.
- maremma sheepdog — a large strongly-built sheepdog of a breed with a long, slightly wavy, white coat
- margin of safety — therapeutic index.
- marginal costing — a method of cost accounting and decision making used for internal reporting in which only marginal costs are charged to cost units and fixed costs are treated as a lump sum
- marine biologist — scientist who studies sea life
- marriage customs — the acts that are traditionally done in connection with a marriage
- marriage license — permit to marry
- marseille prolog — (language) One of the two main dialects of Prolog, the other being Edinburgh Prolog. The difference is largely syntax. The original Marseille Interpreter (1973) was written in Fortran.
- marshalling yard — a place or depot where railway wagons are shunted and made up into trains and where engines, carriages, etc, are kept when not in use
- mcnaughten rules — (in English law) a set of rules established by the case of Regina v. McNaughten (1843) by which legal proof of insanity in the commission of a crime depends upon whether or not the accused can show either that he did not know what he was doing or that he is incapable of realizing that what he was doing was wrong
- measuring device — gauge
- megacorporations — Plural form of megacorporation.
- megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
- megasporogenesis — the formation and development of megaspores.
- mercator sailing — sailing according to rhumb lines, which appear as straight lines on a Mercator chart.
- metamorphosising — Present participle of metamorphosise.
- microaggressions — Plural form of microaggression.
- microphotographs — Plural form of microphotograph.
- migratory locust — any of several locusts that migrate in great swarms, especially Locusta migratoria, of Africa and Asia.
- minstrel gallery — a gallery in a building meant for use by musicians playing to provide background music or entertainment at a feast or other event
- misappropriating — Present participle of misappropriate.