16-letter words containing n, a, m, e, t
- thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
- thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
- tiananmen square — a large plaza in central Beijing, China: noted especially as the site of major student demonstrations in 1989 suppressed by the government.
- tibetan buddhism — the form of Mahayana Buddhism that developed and is practiced primarily in Tibet and some nearby nations: its spiritual leader is the Dalai Lama
- tienanmen square — Tiananmen Square.
- tiger salamander — a salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum, common in North America, having a dark body marked with yellowish spots or bars.
- titanium dioxide — a white, water-insoluble powder, TiO 2 , used chiefly in white pigments, plastics, ceramics, and for delustering synthetic fibers.
- to a/the minimum — If you say that someone keeps something to a minimum, or to the minimum, you mean that they keep the amount of it as small as possible.
- to compare notes — If you compare notes with someone on a particular subject, you talk to them and find out whether their opinion, information, or experience is the same as yours.
- to mean business — If you say that someone means business, you mean they are serious and determined about what they are doing.
- to pass judgment — If you pass judgment on someone or something, you give your opinion about it, especially if you are making a criticism.
- to waste no time — If you waste no time in doing something, you take the opportunity to do it immediately or quickly.
- traded endowment — A traded endowment is a traditional with-profits endowment policy that has been sold to a new owner part way through its term.
- transfer company — a company that transports people or luggage for a relatively short distance, as between terminals of two railroad lines.
- 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.
- transfer payment — any payment made by a government for a purpose other than that of purchasing goods or services, as for welfare benefits.
- transmethylation — the transfer of a methyl group from one compound to another.
- transport number — that fraction of the total electric current that anions and cations carry in passing through an electrolytic solution.
- trichloromethane — chloroform (def 1).
- trigeminal nerve — of or relating to the trigeminal nerve.
- trim one's sails — an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
- triphenylmethane — a colorless, crystalline, solid compound containing three benzene rings, C 19 H 16 , from which many dyes are derived.
- tsushima current — a warm ocean current flowing northward along the west coast of Japan.
- twin-lens camera — a camera having two separately mounted lenses coordinated to eliminate parallax errors or for making stereoscopic photographs.
- ultraminiaturize — to reduce to an ultraminiature size or scale.
- undenominational — free from religious sects or denominationalism; not limited or belonging to any particular religious group or groups.
- under the hammer — a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
- under-modulation — to reproduce (a sound or signal) at below the optimal output level in a recording or broadcasting system, causing it to be distorted.
- undercompensated — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
- unmarried mother — a woman who has a baby while she is not married
- unsystematically — having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan: a systematic course of reading; systematic efforts.
- uranium trioxide — a radioactive orange powder, UO 3 , used in the manufacture of some ceramics.
- vertebral column — spinal column.
- vertical farming — a proposed system of growing crops in urban areas using specially designed skyscrapers
- visiting fireman — an influential person accorded special treatment while visiting an organization, industry, city, etc.
- visual magnitude — Astronomy. magnitude (def 5a).
- visual-magnitude — size; extent; dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle.
- vitamin-enriched — having had vitamins added
- voluntary muscle — muscle whose action is normally controlled by an individual's will; mainly skeletal muscle, composed of parallel bundles of striated, multinucleate fibers.
- wages settlement — an agreement over wages following negotiations between workers and employers
- warminster broom — a European shrub, Cytisus praecox, of the legume family, having yellowish-white or yellow, pealike flowers.
- waste management — disposal and treatment of waste
- welfare payments — government benefits
- well-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- woman of letters — a woman engaged in literary pursuits, especially a professional writer.
- yield management — the process of frequently adjusting the price of a product in response to various market factors, as demand or competition.