19-letter words containing g, e, m, s
- performance targets — the expected or predicted success level of an individual, company or organization
- planning permission — In Britain, planning permission is official permission that you must get from the local authority before building something new or adding something to an existing building.
- pneumogastric nerve — the vagus nerve.
- proctosigmoidoscope — sigmoidoscope.
- programmer's switch — (hardware) A button on the front of some Apple Macintosh computers which, when pressed, causes a command line prompt to appear. This gives access to the built-in mini-debugger, which has commands to dump memory, return to the application that was broken out, and others. A more sophisticated debugger must be installed in order to inspect breakpoints, etc.
- progressive judaism — Reform Judaism.
- pythagoras' theorem — (spelling) It's Pythagoras's Theorem.
- register assignment — (compiler, algorithm) The phase of a compiler that determines which register to use for each program value selected during register allocation.
- registration number — number on vehicle licence plate
- releasing mechanism — a hypothetical control complex in the central nervous system of animals that triggers the appropriate behavioral response to a releaser.
- respiratory pigment — any of several colored protein substances, as hemoglobin and hemocyanin, in the circulatory system of animals and some plants, that combine reversibly with oxygen that is carried to the tissues
- ring someone's bell — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
- ring-spinning frame — a machine containing the ring, traveler, and bobbin used in spinning yarn.
- sacramento sturgeon — white sturgeon.
- segmentation cavity — blastocoel.
- self-aggrandizement — increase of one's own power, wealth, etc., usually aggressively.
- semisubmersible rig — Also called semisubmersible rig. a self-propelled barge that is mounted on partially submerged legs supported by underwater pontoons, rides at anchor, and serves as a work base and living quarters in deep offshore drilling operations.
- shipping department — a department in a company responsible for arranging, receiving, recording, and sending shipments of goods
- signalling system 7 — (protocol) (SS7) A protocol suite used for communication with, and control of, telephone central office switches and their attached processors.
- smite hip and thigh — to attack unsparingly; overwhelm with or as with blows
- smoking compartment — a compartment of a train where smoking is permitted
- split-second timing — timing that depends on minute precision
- sql module language — A language used to interface other languages (Ada, C, COBOL) to SQL-based DBMSes. It is an ANSI standard. Version: Ada/SAME by Informix.
- st.-germain-en-laye — a city in N France, near Paris: royal château and forest; treaties 1570, 1632, 1679, 1919.
- standing martingale — martingale (def 1).
- strawberry geranium — a plant, Saxifraga stolonifera (or S. sarmentosa), of the saxifrage family, native to eastern Asia, that has rounded, variegated leaves and numerous threadlike stolons and is frequently cultivated as a houseplant.
- streaming potential — the potential produced in the walls of a porous membrane or a capillary tube by forcing a liquid through it.
- stringed instrument — a musical instrument having strings as the medium of sound production, played with the fingers or with a plectrum or a bow: The guitar, the harp, and the violin are stringed instruments.
- subsistence farming — farming whose products are intended to provide for the basic needs of the farmer, with little surplus for marketing.
- supplementary angle — either of two angles that added together produce an angle of 180°.
- suspension geometry — Suspension geometry is the geometric arrangement of the parts of a suspension system, and the value of the lengths and angles within it.
- suspensory ligament — any of several tissues that suspend certain organs or parts of the body, especially the transparent, delicate web of fibrous tissue that supports the crystalline lens.
- synchromesh gearbox — A synchromesh gearbox is a usually manually operated transmission in which a change of gears takes place between gears that are already revolving at the same speed.
- systems engineering — an engineer who specializes in the implementation of production systems.
- taming of the shrew — a comedy (1594?) by Shakespeare.
- the pilgrim fathers — the English Puritans who sailed on the Mayflower to New England, where they founded Plymouth Colony in SE Massachusetts (1620)
- the song of solomon — a book of the Old Testament consisting of a collection of dramatic love poems traditionally ascribed to Solomon
- the-song-of-solomon — a book of the Bible. Abbreviation: Sol.
- threshold agreement — an agreement between an employer and employees or their union to increase wages by a specified sum if inflation exceeds a specified level in a specified time
- thrust augmentation — an increase in the thrust of a jet or rocket engine, as by afterburning or reheating.
- time sharing option — (operating system) (TSO) System software from IBM that provides time-sharing on an IBM mainframe running in an MVS environment.
- to reserve judgment — If you reserve judgment on something, you refuse to give an opinion about it until you know more about it.
- travelling salesman — A travelling salesman is a salesman who travels to different places and meets people in order to sell goods or take orders.
- triangulum australe — a small bright triangular constellation in the S hemisphere, lying between Ara and the Southern Cross, that contains an open star cluster
- wade-giles (system) — a system for transliterating Chinese ideograms into the Latin alphabet, in wide use esp. before Pinyin was adopted by the People's Republic of China in 1979
- whispering campaign — the organized spreading of insinuations or rumors to destroy the reputation of a person, organization, etc.