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

  • slide magazine — a piece of equipment that holds slides and pushes them into a projector
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • 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.
  • suprasegmental — above, beyond, or in addition to a segment.
  • test marketing — to offer (a new product) for sale, usually in a limited area, in order to ascertain and evaluate consumer response.
  • text messaging — sending typed mobile phone messages
  • thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
  • 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 youngerThomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
  • time signature — a numerical or other indication at the beginning of a piece showing the meter.
  • west glamorgan — a county in S Wales. 315 sq. mi. (815 sq. km).
  • woman suffrage — the right of women to vote; female suffrage.
  • young marrieds — young married people
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