16-letter words containing g, e, n, o, m
- pigeon guillemot — a black or brown-speckled seabird of the genus Cepphus, of northern seas, having a sharply pointed black bill, red legs, and white wing patches, as C. grylle (black guillemot) of the North Atlantic and the similar C. columba (pigeon guillemot) of the North Pacific.
- pneumatic trough — a trough filled with liquid, especially water, for collecting gases in bell jars or the like by displacement.
- pneumonic plague — a form of plague characterized by lung involvement.
- postremogeniture — a system of inheritance under which the estate of a deceased person goes to his youngest son. Also called ultimogeniture. Compare primogeniture (def 2).
- potemkin village — a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition.
- poynting theorem — the theorem that the rate of flow of electromagnetic energy through unit area is equal to the Poynting vector, i.e. the cross product of the electric and magnetic field intensities
- progress payment — an instalment of a larger payment made to a contractor for work carried out up to a specified stage of the job
- rag-and-bone man — a peddler who buys and sells used clothes, rags, etc.; junkman.
- richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- 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.
- rumour-mongering — the act of spreading rumours
- scheme of things — Someone's scheme of things is the way in which they think that things in their life should be organized.
- second messenger — any of various intracellular chemical substances, as cyclic AMP, that transmit and amplify the messages delivered by a first messenger to specific receptors on the cell surface.
- selenomorphology — the study of the lunar surface and landscape
- self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- shopping complex — a shopping centre
- shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
- simon boccanegra — an opera (1857) by Giuseppe Verdi.
- smooth breathing — a symbol (') used in the writing of Greek to indicate that the initial vowel over which it is placed is unaspirated.
- solemn high mass — a Mass sung with the assistance of a deacon and subdeacon.
- something fierce — desperately, intensely
- sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
- 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.
- spongy-mesophyll — the lower layer of the ground tissue of a leaf, characteristically containing irregularly shaped cells with relatively few chloroplasts and large intercellular spaces.
- stamp collecting — Stamp collecting is the hobby of building up a collection of stamps.
- stock management — the monitoring and control of goods and stock so that new stock can be ordered as required and the right numbers and quantities made available at all times
- stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
- storage terminal — A storage terminal is a building or area with large tanks for storing oil, gas, and other petrochemical products.
- sumo (wrestling) — a highly stylized Japanese form of wrestling engaged in by large, extremely heavy men
- swedenborgianism — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
- swimming costume — A swimming costume is the same as a swimsuit.
- syncategorematic — Traditional Logic. of or relating to a word that is part of a categorical proposition but is not a term, as all, some, is.
- the mekong delta — the area where the Mekong River empties into the sea through distributaries
- the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
- thermoregulation — the regulation of body temperature.
- time sovereignty — control by an employee of the use of his or her time, involving flexibility of working hours
- to pass judgment — If you pass judgment on someone or something, you give your opinion about it, especially if you are making a criticism.
- 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.
- women's suffrage — right of adult females to vote