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16-letter words containing o, n, m, a

  • sphygmomanometry — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • spring mountains — a mountain range in S Nevada extending to the California border. Highest peak, Charleston Peak. 11,919 feet (3635 meters).
  • stamp collecting — Stamp collecting is the hobby of building up a collection of stamps.
  • stamp collection — the act of collecting postage stamps as a hobby
  • stand to someone — to be useful to someone
  • standoff missile — a missile capable of striking a distant target after launch by an aircraft outside the range of missile defences
  • start-up company — new business
  • steal a march on — to walk with regular and measured tread, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body.
  • stock management — the monitoring and control of goods and stock so that new stock can be ordered as required and the right numbers and quantities made available at all times
  • stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
  • stomach stapling — Stomach stapling is an operation in which part of the stomach is removed in order to help a person to eat less and lose weight.
  • stomach-churning — causing nausea.
  • stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
  • storage terminal — A storage terminal is a building or area with large tanks for storing oil, gas, and other petrochemical products.
  • storm and stress — Sturm und Drang.
  • studio apartment — an apartment consisting of one main room, a kitchen or kitchenette, and a bathroom. Compare efficiency apartment.
  • subordinationism — the doctrine that the first person of the Holy Trinity is superior to the second, and the second superior to the third.
  • summation method — a method for associating a sum with a divergent series.
  • summational tone — a musical sound sometimes heard when two loud notes are sounded together, higher in pitch than either
  • summer complaint — an acute condition of diarrhea, occurring during the hot summer months chiefly in infants and children, caused by bacterial contamination of food and associated with poor hygiene.
  • sun-dried tomato — tomato dried in the sun
  • supernationalism — an extreme or fanatical loyalty or devotion to a nation.
  • supranationalism — outside or beyond the authority of one national government, as a project or policy that is planned and controlled by a group of nations.
  • swamp buttonwood — the buttonbush.
  • swedenborgianism — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • sweet almond oil — almond oil (def 1).
  • swiss tournament — (in certain games and sports) a tournament system in which players are paired in each round according to the scores they then have, playing a new opponent each time. More players can take part than in an all-play-all tournament of the same duration
  • syncategorematic — Traditional Logic. of or relating to a word that is part of a categorical proposition but is not a term, as all, some, is.
  • synchronous dram — Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
  • system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
  • take one's lumps — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
  • tandem computers — (company)   A US computer manufacturer. Quarterly sales $544M, profits $49M (Aug 1994).
  • taunus mountains — a mountain range in W Germany, bounded by the Rhine, Main, and Lahn river valleys. Highest peak, Grosser Feldberg. 2628 feet (801 meters).
  • taurus mountains — a mountain range in S Turkey, parallel to the Mediterranean coast: crossed by the Cilician Gates; continued in the northeast by the Anti-Taurus range. Highest peak: Kaldi Dağ, 3734 m (12 251 ft)
  • teachable moment — a specific occurrence, situation, or experience that can be used to teach people about something more general: Her death created a teachable moment about prescription drug abuse.
  • telecommunicator — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
  • ten commandments — Bible: instructions given to Moses
  • tenant in common — one of two or more persons who hold property by tenancy in common.
  • terminal adaptor — (networking, hardware)   (TA) Equipment used to adapt Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) Basic Rate Interface (BRI) channels to existing terminal equipment standards such as EIA-232 and V.35. A Terminal Adaptor is typically packaged like a modem, either as a stand-alone unit or as an interface card that plugs into a computer or other communications equipment (such as a router or PBX). A Terminal Adaptor does not interoperate with a modem; it replaces it.
  • terminal moraine — a moraine marking the farthest advance of a glacier or ice sheet.
  • terms of payment — The terms of payment of a sale state how and when an invoice is to be paid.
  • thalamencephalon — the diencephalon.
  • the amazon basin — the catchment area of the River Amazon
  • the commonwealth — the government in England under the Cromwells and Parliament from 1649 to 1660
  • the home nations — the countries that make up the United Kingdom: England, N. Ireland, Scotland & Wales
  • the human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
  • the little woman — one's wife
  • the mekong delta — the area where the Mekong River empties into the sea through distributaries
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • thermal constant — a quantity that is considered invariable throughout a series of calculations relating to the heat of bodies
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