16-letter words containing o, m, e, n, t
- to waste no time — If you waste no time in doing something, you take the opportunity to do it immediately or quickly.
- tomorrow evening — on the evening of the day after today
- torsion pendulum — a pendulum the weight of which is rotated alternately in opposite directions through a horizontal plane by the torsion of the suspending rod or spring: used for clocks intended to run a long time between windings.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- two-percent milk — Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
- undenominational — free from religious sects or denominationalism; not limited or belonging to any particular religious group or groups.
- under-employment — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
- 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.
- underconsumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- undernourishment — If someone is suffering from undernourishment, they have poor health because they are not eating enough food or are eating the wrong kind of food.
- unmarried mother — a woman who has a baby while she is not married
- up-to-the-minute — extending to the present moment, as information, facts, or style: an up-to-the-minute news report.
- uranium trioxide — a radioactive orange powder, UO 3 , used in the manufacture of some ceramics.
- vertebral column — spinal column.
- voluntary muscle — muscle whose action is normally controlled by an individual's will; mainly skeletal muscle, composed of parallel bundles of striated, multinucleate fibers.
- warminster broom — a European shrub, Cytisus praecox, of the legume family, having yellowish-white or yellow, pealike flowers.
- well-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- when it comes to — with regard to
- wimp environment — WIMP
- without ceremony — in a casual or informal manner
- woman of letters — a woman engaged in literary pursuits, especially a professional writer.
- women's movement — a movement to combat sexual discrimination and to gain full legal, economic, vocational, educational, and social rights and opportunities for women, equal to those of men.