16-letter words containing e, r, g, o, m

evening primrose — flowering plant
flamborough head — a chalk promontory in NE England, on the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire
for good measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
foreign commerce — an interchange of goods or commodities, especially on a large scale between different countries (foreign commerce) or between different parts of the same country (domestic commerce) trade; business.
foreign minister — (in countries other than the U.S.) a cabinet minister who conducts and supervises foreign and diplomatic relations with other states. Also called, especially British, foreign secretary. Compare secretary of state (def 1).
four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
from the word go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
gamma correction — (hardware) Adjustments applied during the display of a digital representation of colour on a screen in order to compensate for the fact that the Cathode Ray Tubes used in computer monitors (and televisions) produce a light intensity which is not proportional to the input voltage. The light intensity is actually proportional to the input voltage raised to the inverse power of some constant, called gamma. Its value varies from one display to another, but is usually around 2.5. Because it is more intuitive for the colour components (red, green and blue) to be varied linearly in the computer, the actual voltages sent to the monitor by the display hardware must be adjusted in order to make the colour component intensity on the screen proportional to the value stored in the computer's display memory. This process is most easily achieved by a dedicated module in the display hardware which simply scales the outputs of the display memory before sending them to the digital-to-analogue converters. More expensive graphics cards and workstations (particularly those used for CAD applications) will have a gamma correction facility. In combination with the "white-point" gamma correction is used to achieve precise colour matching.
gender-normative — cisgender.
general factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
geometric isomer — each of two or more chemical compounds having the same molecular formula but a different geometric arrangement; an unsaturated compound or ring compound in which rotation around a carbon bond is restricted, as in cis- and trans- configurations.
geometric series — an infinite series of the form, c + cx + cx 2 + cx 3 + …, where c and x are real numbers.
geometrical pace — a pace of 5 feet (1.5 meters), representing the distance between the places at which the same foot rests on the ground in walking.
geomorphological — Of or pertaining to geomorphology.
george m pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
george mcclellan — George Brinton [brin-tn] /ˈbrɪn tn/ (Show IPA), 1826–85, Union general in the American Civil War.
geothermal power — power generated using steam produced by heat emanating from the molten core of the earth
german cockroach — a common yellowish-brown cockroach, Blatta germanica, brought into the U.S. from Europe.
gerontomorphosis — Biology. evolutionary specialization of a species to a degree that decreases its capability for further adaptation and eventually leads to its extinction.
glycosylceramide — (organic chemistry) Any glycosyl derivative of a ceramide.
gold star mother — an American woman whose son or daughter has died while serving in the United States Armed Forces
gonzález márquez — Felipe (feˈlipe). born 1942, Spanish statesman; prime minister of Spain (1982–96)
government house — the official residence of a colonial governor, as in a British Commonwealth country.
government issue — (often initial capital letter) issued or supplied by the government or one of its agencies.
government stock — stock issued by the UK or another national government
governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
granger movement — a campaign for state control of railroads and grain elevators, especially in the north central states, carried on during the 1870s by members of the Patrons of Husbandry (the Grange) a farmers' organization that had been formed for social and cultural purposes.
gum up the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
hammer and tongs — with great vigor, determination, or vehemence: When he starts a job he goes at it hammer and tongs.
high memory area — (storage) (HMA) The first 64 kilobytes (minus 16 byte) of the extended memory on an IBM PC. By a strange design glitch the Intel 80x86 processors can actually address 17*64 kbyte minus 16 byte of memory (from 0000:0000 to ffff:ffff) in real mode. In the Intel 8086 and Intel 8088 processors, unable to handle more than 1 megabyte of memory, addressing wrapped around, that is, address ffff:0010 was equivalent to 0000:0000. For compatibility reasons, later processors still wrapped around by default, but this feature could be switched off. Special programs called A20 handlers can control the addressing mode dynamically, thereby allowing programs to load themselves into the 1024--1088 kbyte region and run in real mode. From version 5.0 parts of MS-DOS can be loaded into HMA as well freeing up to 46 kbytes of conventional memory.
high-compression — of a modern type of internal-combustion engine designed so that the fuel mixture is compressed into a smaller cylinder space, resulting in more pressure on the pistons and more power
high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
homeric laughter — loud, hearty laughter, as of the gods.
honeymoon bridge — any of several varieties of bridge for two players.
horseshoe magnet — a horseshoe-shaped permanent magnet.
hydrogen bromide — a colorless gas, HBr, having a pungent odor: the anhydride of hydrobromic acid.
hydrometeorology — the study of atmospheric water, especially precipitation, as it affects agriculture, water supply, flood control, power generation, etc.
hygrothermograph — an instrument for recording temperature and relative humidity.
hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
image processing — (graphics) Computer manipulation of images. Some of the many algorithms used in image processing include convolution (on which many others are based), FFT, DCT, thinning (or skeletonisation), edge detection and contrast enhancement. These are usually implemented in software but may also use special purpose hardware for speed. Image processing contrasts with computer graphics, which is usually more concerned with the generation of artificial images, and visualisation, which attempts to understand (real-world) data by displaying it as an artificial image (e.g. a graph). Image processing is used in image recognition and computer vision. See also Pilot European Image Processing Archive.
imago europe plc — A UK Internet provider. There sevice is called Imago On-line. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
immoral earnings — money earned from work that transgresses accepted moral or legal rules
immunoregulation — (immunology) The control of immune responses between lymphocytes and macrophages.
immunoregulatory — Of or pertaining to immunoregulation.
import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
in living memory — If you say that something is, for example, the best, worst, or first thing of its kind in living memory, you are emphasizing that it is the only thing of that kind that people can remember.
in the long term — You use the expressions in the long term, in the short term, and in the medium term to talk about what will happen over a long period of time, over a short period of time, and over a medium period of time.
interior mapping — an open map.
james oglethorpe — James Edward, 1696–1785, British general: founder of the colony of Georgia.
kamerlingh onnes — Heike [hahy-kuh] /ˈhaɪ kə/ (Show IPA), 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: Nobel Prize 1913.

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