16-letter words containing e, n, g, i, m
- pigeon guillemot — a black or brown-speckled seabird of the genus Cepphus, of northern seas, having a sharply pointed black bill, red legs, and white wing patches, as C. grylle (black guillemot) of the North Atlantic and the similar C. columba (pigeon guillemot) of the North Pacific.
- pneumatic trough — a trough filled with liquid, especially water, for collecting gases in bell jars or the like by displacement.
- pneumonic plague — a form of plague characterized by lung involvement.
- postremogeniture — a system of inheritance under which the estate of a deceased person goes to his youngest son. Also called ultimogeniture. Compare primogeniture (def 2).
- potemkin village — a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition.
- poynting theorem — the theorem that the rate of flow of electromagnetic energy through unit area is equal to the Poynting vector, i.e. the cross product of the electric and magnetic field intensities
- practice manager — the manager of a business such as a medical practice, dental practice, or legal practice
- private judgment — personal opinion formed independently of the expressed position of an institution, as in matters of religion or politics.
- punitive damages — law: penalty payment
- pygmy chimpanzee — a small chimpanzee, Pan paniscus, primarily of swamp forests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a threatened species.
- quasi-managerial — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
- reading material — any matter that can be read; written or printed text
- recycling scheme — a scheme enabling the public to recycle waste
- remedial reading — instruction in reading aimed at increasing speed and comprehension by correcting poor reading habits.
- richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- riemann integral — integral (def 8a).
- rumour-mongering — the act of spreading rumours
- scheme of things — Someone's scheme of things is the way in which they think that things in their life should be organized.
- schmaltz herring — herring caught just before spawning, when it has much fat
- sea fish farming — the farming of saltwater fish
- security manager — The security manager of a store is the person responsible for organizing all security in the store and to whom security guards report.
- self-dramatizing — exaggerating one's own qualities, role, situation, etc., for dramatic effect or as an attention-getting device; presenting oneself dramatically.
- self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- self-terminating — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
- shopping complex — a shopping centre
- 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.
- something fierce — desperately, intensely
- 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
- spelling mistake — error in writing a word
- 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.
- 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
- summer lightning — distant sheet lightning without audible thunder, which typically occurs on a summer evening
- sumo (wrestling) — a highly stylized Japanese form of wrestling engaged in by large, extremely heavy men
- 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.
- swimming costume — A swimming costume is the same as a swimsuit.
- 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.
- systems engineer — an engineer who specializes in the implementation of production systems.
- 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