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16-letter words containing a, g, m, e

  • sergeant at arms — an executive officer of a legislative or other body, whose duty it is to enforce its commands, preserve order, etc.
  • settlement agent — A settlement agent is a person who arranges the transfer of securities or real property in a sale.
  • shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • simon boccanegra — an opera (1857) by Giuseppe Verdi.
  • singing telegram — a greetings service in which a person is employed to present greetings by singing to the person celebrating
  • size enlargement — Size enlargement is a process in which the particle size of a solid is increased.
  • slave-making ant — an ant of a species that raids the colonies of other ant species, carrying off larvae and pupae to be reared as slaves.
  • smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
  • smooth breathing — a symbol (') used in the writing of Greek to indicate that the initial vowel over which it is placed is unaspirated.
  • solemn high mass — a Mass sung with the assistance of a deacon and subdeacon.
  • sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
  • speaking trumpet — a trumpet-shaped instrument used to carry the voice a great distance or held to the ear by a deaf person to aid his hearing
  • spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
  • spelling mistake — error in writing a word
  • sphygmomanometer — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • sphygmomanometry — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • spraying machine — a device for spraying large volumes of liquid, such as insecticide onto crops
  • spring ephemeral — any of various woodland wildflowers that appear above ground in early spring, flower and fruit, and die in a short two-month period.
  • stamp collecting — Stamp collecting is the hobby of building up a collection of stamps.
  • steamboat gothic — a florid architectural style suggesting the gingerbread-decorated construction of river boats of the Victorian period.
  • stock management — the monitoring and control of goods and stock so that new stock can be ordered as required and the right numbers and quantities made available at all times
  • stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
  • storage terminal — A storage terminal is a building or area with large tanks for storing oil, gas, and other petrochemical products.
  • subliminal image — an image used in advertising, etc, that is too quick to be registered by the mind but is used to influence the viewer unconsciously
  • summa theologica — a philosophical and theological work (1265–74) by St. Thomas Aquinas, consisting of an exposition of Christian doctrine.
  • summary judgment — a judgment, as in an action for debt, that is entered without the necessity of jury trial, based on affidavits of the creditor and debtor that convince the court that there is no arguable issue.
  • surrogate mother — a person who acts in the place of another person's biological mother.
  • swedenborgianism — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • syncategorematic — Traditional Logic. of or relating to a word that is part of a categorical proposition but is not a term, as all, some, is.
  • systemic grammar — a grammar in which description is founded on the relationships among the various units at different ranks of a language, and in which language is viewed as a system of meaning-creating choices
  • take a page from — to follow the example of; imitate
  • tariff agreement — an agreement between countries or geographical areas relating to taxes levied by governments on imports or occasionally exports for purposes of protection, support of the balance of payments, or the raising of revenue
  • teaching machine — a mechanical, electrical, or other automatic device that presents the user with items of information in planned sequence, registers his or her response to each item, and immediately indicates the acceptability of each response.
  • the england team — any sports team representing England, esp the England football team.
  • the mekong delta — the area where the Mekong River empties into the sea through distributaries
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • the tamil tigers — a Sri Lankan Tamil separatist movement founded in the early 1970s that sought to establish an independent Tamil homeland (Tamil Eelam) in northern Sri Lanka; they waged a military campaign until defeated in 2009 by the Sri Lankan army
  • thermal cracking — Thermal cracking is an extraction process in which hydrocarbons such as crude oil are heated to a high temperature to break the molecular bonds.
  • thermoregulation — the regulation of body temperature.
  • tiger salamander — a salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum, common in North America, having a dark body marked with yellowish spots or bars.
  • to come a gutzer — to make an error or blunder
  • to pass judgment — If you pass judgment on someone or something, you give your opinion about it, especially if you are making a criticism.
  • transfer molding — a method of molding thermosetting plastic in which the plastic enters a closed mold from an adjoining chamber in which it has been softened.
  • trigeminal nerve — of or relating to the trigeminal nerve.
  • unix manual page — (operating system)   (Or "man page") A part of Unix's extensive on-line documentation. To read a manual page from the Unix command line, type: man [-s
    ] e.g. "man ftp" (the section number can usually be omitted). Pages are traditionally referred to using the notation "page(section)", e.g. ftp(1). Under SunOS (which is fairly typical), Section 1 covers commands, 2 system calls, 3 C library routines, 4 devices and networks, 5 file formats, 6 games and demos, 7 miscellaneous, 8 system administration. Each section has an introduction which can be obtained with, e.g., "man 2 intro". Manual pages are stored as nroff source files. Formatted versions are also usually cached. Man pages for most versions of Unix are available on-line in HTML.
  • vectorcardiogram — the graphic record produced by vectorcardiography.
  • vegetable marrow — any of various summer squashes, as the cocozelle and zucchini.
  • vertical farming — a proposed system of growing crops in urban areas using specially designed skyscrapers
  • visiting fireman — an influential person accorded special treatment while visiting an organization, industry, city, etc.
  • visual magnitude — Astronomy. magnitude (def 5a).
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