16-letter words containing o, g, m
- photograph album — bound book for photos
- physiognomically — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
- picture moulding — the edge around a framed picture
- 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.
- pinpoint bombing — precision bombing.
- 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.
- portuguese timor — former (1914-75) Portuguese territory in the Malay Archipelago
- 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
- pragmatic theory — the theory of truth that the truth of a statement consists in its practical consequences, especially in its agreement with subsequent experience.
- program director — a chief executive responsible for selecting and scheduling programs.
- programmatically — by using a computer program: You can set the value in each field programmatically with a simple algorithm. The background shapes can be programmatically drawn and animated.
- programme editor — someone responsible for editing, overseeing and selecting the content of radio or television programmes
- programme seller — someone who sells written or printed lists of the events, performers, etc, in a theatre performance
- progress payment — an instalment of a larger payment made to a contractor for work carried out up to a specified stage of the job
- psychoimmunology — the branch of medicine studying the effects of psychological phenomena on the immune system; the intersection of psychology and immunology.
- rag-and-bone man — a peddler who buys and sells used clothes, rags, etc.; junkman.
- rancho cucamonga — a city in SE California.
- rating community — an online community based around a website that allows members to rate each other's photographs, qualifications, etc, as well as those of applicants, and which only those approved by existing members are allowed to join
- re-chromatograph — to separate and analyse (a mixture of liquids or gases) by means of chromatography a second or further time
- recorded message — words spoken by someone and recorded electronically in order to be replayed again in future, esp automatically over the phone
- reverse mortgage — a type of home mortgage under which an elderly homeowner is allowed a long-term loan in the form of monthly payments against his or her paid-off equity as collateral, repayable when the home is eventually sold. Abbreviation: RAM.
- richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- room methodology — Real-Time Object-Oriented Modeling
- rooting compound — a substance, usually a powder, containing auxins in which plant cuttings are dipped in order to promote root growth
- roskind grammars — (tool) Yacc-based parsers for C and C++ by Jim Roskind. It does not use the %prec and %assoc YACC features so conflicts are never hidden. The C grammar has only one shift-reduce conflict, the C++ grammar has a few more. With byacc it can produce graphical parse trees automatically. The C grammar conforms to ANSI C and the C++ grammar supports cfront 2.0 constructs.
- 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
- saint-ulmo-light — St. Elmo's fire.
- saxo grammaticus — c1150–1206? Danish historian and poet.
- 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.
- shipping company — business that sends goods overseas
- 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.
- so help me (god) — I swear
- 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.
- spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
- 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.