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20-letter words containing m, p, e, g

  • salmonella poisoning — an illness caused by ingestion of a salmonella bacterium
  • semiautobiographical — pertaining to or being a fictionalized account of an author's own life.
  • send someone packing — to dismiss or get rid of (someone) peremptorily
  • single point mooring — monobuoy.
  • spike someone's guns — a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
  • st.-germain-des-pres — an area in Paris, on the Left Bank.
  • supplemental plumage — the third plumage assumed by certain birds having three different plumages in their annual cycle of molts.
  • supplementary angles — either of two angles that added together produce an angle of 180°.
  • synoptic meteorology — a branch of meteorology analyzing data collected simultaneously over a wide region, for the purpose of weather forecasting.
  • television programme — a programme broadcast on television
  • temperature gradient — rate of change of temperature with distance.
  • the (great) pyramids — the three large pyramids at Gîza, Egypt: the largest is the Pyramid of Khufu
  • the hearing impaired — people whose hearing is partially defective
  • toxemia of pregnancy — an abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, edema, and the presence of protein in the urine.
  • unemployment figures — statistics relating to the number of people who are out of work
  • winter olympic games — an international contest of winter sports, esp skiing, held every four years
  • yellow-billed magpie — either of two corvine birds, Pica pica (black-billed magpie) of Eurasia and North America, or P. nuttalli (yellow-billed magpie) of California, having long, graduated tails, black-and-white plumage, and noisy, mischievous habits.
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