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

  • practice manager — the manager of a business such as a medical practice, dental practice, or legal practice
  • pragmatic theory — the theory of truth that the truth of a statement consists in its practical consequences, especially in its agreement with subsequent experience.
  • private judgment — personal opinion formed independently of the expressed position of an institution, as in matters of religion or politics.
  • program director — a chief executive responsible for selecting and scheduling programs.
  • programmatically — by using a computer program: You can set the value in each field programmatically with a simple algorithm. The background shapes can be programmatically drawn and animated.
  • programme editor — someone responsible for editing, overseeing and selecting the content of radio or television programmes
  • programme seller — someone who sells written or printed lists of the events, performers, etc, in a theatre performance
  • progress payment — an instalment of a larger payment made to a contractor for work carried out up to a specified stage of the job
  • quasi-managerial — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
  • queen maud range — a mountain range in Antarctica, in Ross Dependency, S of the Ross Sea.
  • rag-and-bone man — a peddler who buys and sells used clothes, rags, etc.; junkman.
  • rancho cucamonga — a city in SE California.
  • rating community — an online community based around a website that allows members to rate each other's photographs, qualifications, etc, as well as those of applicants, and which only those approved by existing members are allowed to join
  • re-chromatograph — to separate and analyse (a mixture of liquids or gases) by means of chromatography a second or further time
  • reading material — any matter that can be read; written or printed text
  • recorded message — words spoken by someone and recorded electronically in order to be replayed again in future, esp automatically over the phone
  • remedial reading — instruction in reading aimed at increasing speed and comprehension by correcting poor reading habits.
  • reverse mortgage — a type of home mortgage under which an elderly homeowner is allowed a long-term loan in the form of monthly payments against his or her paid-off equity as collateral, repayable when the home is eventually sold. Abbreviation: RAM.
  • riemann integral — integral (def 8a).
  • roskind grammars — (tool)   Yacc-based parsers for C and C++ by Jim Roskind. It does not use the %prec and %assoc YACC features so conflicts are never hidden. The C grammar has only one shift-reduce conflict, the C++ grammar has a few more. With byacc it can produce graphical parse trees automatically. The C grammar conforms to ANSI C and the C++ grammar supports cfront 2.0 constructs.
  • rough and tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
  • rough-and-tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
  • saxifrage family — the plant family Saxifragaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and small trees having alternate or opposite leaves, clustered or solitary flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the astilbe, currant, deutzia, gooseberry, hydrangea, mock orange, piggy-back plant, saxifrage, and strawberry geranium.
  • saxo grammaticus — c1150–1206? Danish historian and poet.
  • schaumburg-lippe — a former state in NW Germany.
  • 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.
  • semiagricultural — partly engaged in or given over to agriculture
  • sergeant at arms — an executive officer of a legislative or other body, whose duty it is to enforce its commands, preserve order, etc.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • spring mountains — a mountain range in S Nevada extending to the California border. Highest peak, Charleston Peak. 11,919 feet (3635 meters).
  • stomach-churning — causing nausea.
  • storage terminal — A storage terminal is a building or area with large tanks for storing oil, gas, and other petrochemical products.
  • 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.
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