16-letter words containing e, n, g, i, m
- 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 missing link — a hypothetical extinct animal or animal group, formerly thought to be intermediate between the anthropoid apes and man
- the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
- 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.
- time sovereignty — control by an employee of the use of his or her time, involving flexibility of working hours
- tomorrow evening — on the evening of the day after today
- 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.
- trimethylglycine — betaine.
- 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. - 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).
- visual-magnitude — size; extent; dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle.
- weighing machine — large measuring scales
- yield management — the process of frequently adjusting the price of a product in response to various market factors, as demand or competition.