21-letter words containing g, r, e, n, m, o
- general of the armies — a special rank held by John J. Pershing, equivalent to general of the army.
- gentleman of the road — a highwayman.
- geometric progression — a sequence of terms in which the ratio between any two successive terms is the same, as the progression 1, 3, 9, 27, 81 or 144, 12, 1, 1/12, 1/144.
- george bryan brummell — George Bryan II, Beau Brummell.
- get in someone's hair — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
- give someone the bird — to tell someone rudely to depart; scoff at; hiss
- glen of imaal terrier — a strongly-built medium-sized variety of terrier with a medium-length coat and short forelegs
- go someone one better — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
- government department — a sector of a national or state government that deals with a particular area of interest
- government in waiting — a political group which is hoping to be elected to govern in the near future
- government securities — securities issued by the US Government
- grease someone's palm — the part of the inner surface of the hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers.
- great smoky mountains — the W part of the Appalachians, in W North Carolina and E Tennessee. Highest peak: Clingman's Dome, 2024 m (6642 ft)
- ground-effect machine — ACV (def 2).
- have a strong stomach — not to be prone to nausea
- henry steele commager — Henry Steele, 1902–98, U.S. historian, author, and teacher.
- highest common factor — greatest common divisor. Abbreviation: H.C.F.
- ibm customer engineer — (job) (CE) A hardware guy from IBM.
- in good circumstances — (of a person) in a good financial situation
- information gathering — the process of collecting information about something
- lateral magnification — the ratio of the height of the image to the height of the object in a lens or other optical system.
- loch ness monster bug — (humour) (Or "Bugfoot") A bug which cannot be reproduced or has only been sighted by one person. Named after the mythical creature claimed to inhabit Loch Ness in Scotland.
- long-term liabilities — Long-term liabilities are debts that a company does not have to pay back for a year or more.
- magneto-optical drive — magneto-optical disk
- magnetocaloric effect — an increase or decrease of the temperature of a thermally isolated magnetic substance accompanying an increase or decrease in the intensity of a magnetic field.
- majority shareholding — a holding of more than half a company's shares
- make one's gorge rise — a narrow cleft with steep, rocky walls, especially one through which a stream runs.
- manufacturing process — chain of production
- mariage de convenance — marriage entered into for a personal or family advantage, as for social, political, or economic reasons, usually without love and sometimes without the expectation of sexual relations.
- member of the wedding — a novel (1946) and play (1950) by Carson McCullers.
- meter-kilogram-second — of or relating to the system of units in which the meter, kilogram, and second are the principal units of length, mass, and time. Abbreviation: mks, MKS.
- miniature photography — photography with a camera using film that is 35 millimeters wide or less.
- multi-ringed compound — A multi-ringed compound is a compound which has 70 or more carbon atoms, often a residual compound.
- narrow-angle glaucoma — Ophthalmology. angle-closure glaucoma. See under glaucoma.
- negative amortization — the increase of the principal of a loan by the amount by which periodic loan payments fall short of the interest due, usually as a result of an increase in the interest rate after the loan has begun.
- negotiable instrument — order or promise to pay money
- network filing system — (spelling) Misnomer for Network File System.
- night-blooming cereus — any of various cacti of the genera Hylocereus, Peniocereus, Nyctocereus, or Selenicereus, having large, usually white flowers that open at night.
- non-repeating decimal — a decimal representation of any irrational number, having the property that no sequence of digits is repeated ad infinitum.
- performance-enhancing — noting or relating to a drug or other substance used to improve one's performance in a sport or other activity requiring strength, stamina, etc.: The use of performance-enhancing steroids by athletes is banned.
- ploughman's spikenard — a European plant, Inula conyza, with tubular yellowish flower heads surrounded by purple bracts: family Asteraceae (composites)
- pneumoencephalography — encephalography.
- polarizing microscope — a microscope that utilizes polarized light to reveal detail in an object, used especially to study crystalline and fibrous structures.
- portuguese man-of-war — any of several large, oceanic hydrozoans of the genus Physalia, having a large, bladderlike structure with a saillike crest by which they are buoyed up and from which dangle tentacles with stinging cells.
- premium savings bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums
- profit-sharing scheme — a scheme employing profit-sharing; a system in which a portion of the net profit of a business is distributed to its employees, usually in proportion to their wages or their length of service
- psychoneuroimmunology — the study of the effects of psychological factors on the immune system
- put something over on — to deceive; trick
- pyrenean mountain dog — a large heavily built dog of an ancient breed originally used to protect sheep from wild animals: it has a long thick white coat with a dense ruff
- rattle someone's cage — to upset or anger someone