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20-letter words containing r, i, n, s, g

  • sergeant first class — a noncommissioned officer ranking next above a staff sergeant and below a first or master sergeant.
  • serve a person right — to pay a person back, esp for wrongful or foolish treatment or behaviour
  • set the ball rolling — to open or initiate (an action, discussion, movement, etc)
  • setting-up exercises — gymnastic exercises for better posture, suppleness, etc
  • sex change operation — a surgical operation designed to change a person's physical sexual characteristics to those of the opposite sex
  • shoulder-length hair — hair that reaches a person's shoulders
  • sing for your supper — If someone has to sing for their supper, they have to do a job before they are allowed to do something they want to do.
  • single point mooring — monobuoy.
  • slip through the net — If criminals slip through the net, they avoid being caught by the system or trap that was meant to catch them.
  • snowflake generation — the generation of people who became adults in the 2010s, viewed as being less resilient and more prone to taking offence than previous generations
  • software engineering — the process of writing computer programs
  • squatter sovereignty — (used contemptuously by its opponents) popular sovereignty (def 2).
  • st.-germain-des-pres — an area in Paris, on the Left Bank.
  • standstill agreement — law: between company and bidder
  • straight as an arrow — direct, unwavering
  • string correspondent — stringer (def 6).
  • surface-active agent — any substance that when dissolved in water or an aqueous solution reduces its surface tension or the interfacial tension between it and another liquid.
  • synchronized skating — the art or sport of teams of up to twenty skaters holding onto each other and moving in patterns in time to music
  • 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
  • terrestrial guidance — a method of missile or rocket guidance in which the flight path is controlled by reference to the strength and direction of the earth's gravitational or magnetic field
  • tetrahydrogestrinone — a synthetic anabolic steroid. Formula: C21H28O2
  • the founding fathers — any of the men who were members of the U.S. Constituional Convention of 1787
  • the garment industry — the manufacturing of items of clothing
  • the gnomes of zurich — Swiss bankers and financiers
  • the grass is greener — If you say the grass is greener somewhere else, you mean that other people's situations always seem better or more attractive than your own, but may not really be so.
  • the greater antilles — a group of islands in the Caribbean, including Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico
  • the high renaissance — the period from about the 1490s to the 1520s in painting, sculpture, and architecture in Europe, esp in Italy, when the Renaissance ideals were considered to have been attained through the mastery of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael
  • the legal profession — the profession of law
  • the roaring twenties — a phrase used to describe the decade of the 1920s (esp in America), so called due to the social, artistic, and cultural dynamism of the period
  • the thinking process — thought; the activity of thinking
  • the toronto blessing — a variety of emotional reactions such as laughing, weeping, and fainting, experienced by participants in a form of charismatic Christian worship
  • there's no mistaking — You can say there is no mistaking something when you are emphasizing that you cannot fail to recognize or understand it.
  • there's nothing like — a general expression of praise
  • to be a warning shot — to be a warning
  • to get your bearings — to find out where one is or to find out what one should do next
  • to reach new heights — to become higher than ever before
  • to spread your wings — If you spread your wings, you do something new and rather difficult or move to a new place, because you feel more confident in your abilities than you used to and you want to gain wider experience.
  • transcendental logic — (in Kantian epistemology) the study of the mind with reference to its perceptions of external objects and to the objective truth of such perceptions.
  • transfer of training — transfer (def 19).
  • transformation range — the temperature range within which austenite forms when a ferrous metal is heated, or within which it disappears when the metal is cooled.
  • trigonometric series — an infinite series involving sines and cosines of increasing integral multiples of a variable.
  • trustee savings bank — a British financial institution which offered savings facilities for small investors and was managed by unpaid trustees. Depositors had no voting rights and no say in financial or managerial matters. The bank is now a public limited company with the same rights and services as other banks and only retains the title in the abbreviated form TSB.
  • tubing head pressure — The tubing head pressure is the pressure on the tubing, which is measured at the wellhead.
  • twelve-string guitar — an acoustic guitar having twelve strings instead of six, with each pair tuned an octave apart, and more difficult to play than the standard guitar.
  • unemployment figures — statistics relating to the number of people who are out of work
  • unsaddling enclosure — the area at a racecourse where horses are unsaddled after a race and often where awards are given to owners, trainers, and jockeys
  • visual merchandising — Visual merchandising is the use of attractive displays and floor plans to increase customer numbers and sales volumes.
  • warrensville heights — a city in NE Ohio.
  • watering of the eyes — the formation of tears in the eyes
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