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14-letter words containing a, g, n, m

  • shouting match — a loud, often abusive quarrel or argument.
  • slamming stile — doorstop (def 2).
  • slanging match — A slanging match is an angry quarrel in which people insult each other.
  • slide magazine — a piece of equipment that holds slides and pushes them into a projector
  • smash-and-grab — A smash-and-grab is a robbery in which a person breaks a shop window, takes the things that are on display there, and runs away with them.
  • smear campaign — a campaign to tarnish the reputation of a public figure, especially by vilification or innuendo.
  • smelling salts — a preparation for smelling, essentially of ammonium carbonate with some agreeable scent, used as a stimulant and restorative.
  • smoking jacket — a loose-fitting jacket for men, often of a heavy fabric and trimmed with braid, worn indoors, especially as a lounging jacket.
  • smooth-talking — A smooth-talking man talks very confidently in a way that is likely to persuade people, but may not be sincere or honest.
  • social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
  • soft margarine — a soft, spreadable margarine that is made with more liquid oils and less hydrogenated oils than hard, block margarine
  • sowing machine — a machine that scatters seeds on land so that they may grow
  • sparring match — a practice boxing match
  • speaking terms — if you are on speaking terms with someone, you are quite friendly with them and often talk to them
  • spermatogenous — producing spermatozoa.
  • spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
  • spinning frame — a machine for drawing, twisting, and winding yarn.
  • spit and image — a person who bears a strong physical resemblance to another, esp to a relative
  • spitting image — spit1 (def 13).
  • springform pan — a metal cake pan with sides that can be unfastened to facilitate releasing the cake when done.
  • staghorn sumac — a sumac, Rhus typhina, of eastern North America, having leaves that turn scarlet, orange, and purple in the autumn.
  • steam cracking — Steam cracking is the main method of breaking down large molecules of hydrocarbons, in which a gaseous or liquid hydrocarbon is diluted with steam and then heated.
  • stigmatization — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • storming party — a group deployed to make the first assault on a position or building
  • sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
  • submachine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • sugared almond — Sugared almonds are nuts which have been covered with a hard sweet coating.
  • summer tanager — a tanager, Piranga rubra, of the south and central U.S., the male of which is rose-red, the female olive-green above and yellow below.
  • sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
  • suprasegmental — above, beyond, or in addition to a segment.
  • swimming baths — an indoor swimming pool
  • take a meeting — to attend a business conference
  • tenant farming — farming land owned by sb else
  • terminological — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
  • test marketing — to offer (a new product) for sale, usually in a limited area, in order to ascertain and evaluate consumer response.
  • tetragrammaton — the Hebrew word for God, consisting of the four letters yod, he, vav, and he, transliterated consonantally usually as YHVH, now pronounced as Adonai or Elohim in substitution for the original pronunciation forbidden since the 2nd or 3rd century b.c.
  • text messaging — sending typed mobile phone messages
  • the long march — a journey of about 10 000 km (6000 miles) undertaken (1934–35) by some 100 000 Chinese Communists when they were forced out of their base in Kiangsi in SE China. They made their way to Shensi in NW China; only about 8000 survived the rigours of the journey
  • the mabinogion — a collection of Welsh tales based on old Celtic legends and mythology in which magic and the supernatural play a large part
  • the-mabinogion — a collection of medieval Welsh romances that were translated (1838–49) by Lady Charlotte Guest.
  • thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
  • thermomagnetic — of or relating to the effect of heat on the magnetic properties of a substance.
  • thermostatting — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
  • time and again — frequently
  • time signature — a numerical or other indication at the beginning of a piece showing the meter.
  • top management — highest level of business leadership
  • tragacanth gum — Tragacanth gum is a gum obtained from the tragacanth plant, used as a suspending agent.
  • transmigration — the act of transmigrating.
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