12-letter words containing a, g, e, m, t
- stage-manage — to work as a stage manager for: When he wasn't acting, he stage-managed a repertory theater.
- steam engine — an engine worked by steam, typically one in which a sliding piston in a cylinder is moved by the expansive action of the steam generated in a boiler.
- steam-engine — an engine worked by steam, typically one in which a sliding piston in a cylinder is moved by the expansive action of the steam generated in a boiler.
- steering arm — the part of a vehicle's chassis that directs the input from the steering box
- steinamanger — German name of Szombathely.
- stigmasterol — a crystalline, water-insoluble steroid, C 2 9 H 4 8 O, present in soybeans or calabar beans, used chiefly as a raw material in the manufacture of progesterone.
- streamlining — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
- sub-mortgage — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
- syntagmatite — a dark crystalline form of hornblende
- take umbrage — If you say that a person takes umbrage, you mean that they are upset or offended by something that someone says or does to them, often without much reason.
- tasting menu — a fixed-price restaurant meal or menu consisting of small portions of numerous dishes: We ordered the 6-course tasting menu for $125.
- terraforming — to alter the environment of (a celestial body) in order to make capable of supporting terrestrial life forms.
- text message — an electronic message sent over a cellular network from one cell phone to another by typing words, often in shortened form, as “l8t” for “late,” on the phone's numeric or QWERTY keypad.
- thaumatogeny — the belief that the origin of life was the result of a miracle
- the almighty — God
- thermalgesia — pain caused by heat.
- thermography — a technique for imitating an embossed appearance, as on business cards, stationery, or the like, by dusting printed areas with a powder that adheres only to the wet ink, and fusing the ink and powder to the paper by heat.
- tiger market — any of the four most important markets on the Pacific rim after Japan: Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan
- time sharing — to use or occupy by time-sharing.
- time-sharing — time-sharing (def 2).
- time-wasting — causing someone to spend time doing something that is unnecessary or does not produce any benefit
- tour manager — the person in charge of an organized trip that people such as musicians, or actors go on to several different places, stopping to meet people or perform
- town manager — an official appointed to direct the administration of a town government.
- tragi-comedy — A tragi-comedy is a play or other written work that is both sad and amusing.
- transmigrate — to move or pass from one place to another.
- tree diagram — Mathematics, Linguistics. a diagram in which lines branch out from a central point or stem without forming any closed loops.
- tsunamigenic — producing a tsunami or tsunamis
- tumbler gear — a transmission having gears actuated by a tumbler.
- undergarment — an article of underwear.
- unfragmented — existing or functioning as though broken into separate parts; disorganized; disunified: a fragmented personality; a fragmented society.
- ungerminated — to begin to grow or develop.
- unguentarium — a vessel for holding an unguent
- unjudgmental — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
- up a gumtree — in a very awkward position; in difficulties
- valve timing — Valve timing is the exact timing of the opening and closing of the valves in a piston engine.
- veto-message — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
- virgin metal — primary metal.
- wagon master — wagon boss.
- waiting game — a stratagem in which action on a matter is reserved for or postponed to a later time, allowing one to wait for a more advantageous time to act or to see what develops in the meantime.
- watermarking — Present participle of watermark.
- west germany — a former republic in central Europe: created in 1949 by the coalescing of the British, French, and U.S. zones of occupied Germany established in 1945. 96,025 sq. mi. (248,706 sq. km). Capital: Bonn.
- yogurt-maker — a machine for making yogurt
- zoomastigote — A zooflagellate: a heterotrophic flagellate of the phylum Zoomastigophora.