16-letter words containing t, e, g, m, n
- private judgment — personal opinion formed independently of the expressed position of an institution, as in matters of religion or politics.
- progress payment — an instalment of a larger payment made to a contractor for work carried out up to a specified stage of the job
- punitive damages — law: penalty payment
- reading material — any matter that can be read; written or printed text
- richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- riemann integral — integral (def 8a).
- 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.
- scheme of things — Someone's scheme of things is the way in which they think that things in their life should be organized.
- schmaltz herring — herring caught just before spawning, when it has much fat
- security manager — The security manager of a store is the person responsible for organizing all security in the store and to whom security guards report.
- self-dramatizing — exaggerating one's own qualities, role, situation, etc., for dramatic effect or as an attention-getting device; presenting oneself dramatically.
- self-terminating — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
- sergeant at arms — an executive officer of a legislative or other body, whose duty it is to enforce its commands, preserve order, etc.
- settlement agent — A settlement agent is a person who arranges the transfer of securities or real property in a sale.
- shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
- singing telegram — a greetings service in which a person is employed to present greetings by singing to the person celebrating
- size enlargement — Size enlargement is a process in which the particle size of a solid is increased.
- slave-making ant — an ant of a species that raids the colonies of other ant species, carrying off larvae and pupae to be reared as slaves.
- smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
- smooth breathing — a symbol (') used in the writing of Greek to indicate that the initial vowel over which it is placed is unaspirated.
- something fierce — desperately, intensely
- speaking trumpet — a trumpet-shaped instrument used to carry the voice a great distance or held to the ear by a deaf person to aid his hearing
- spelling mistake — error in writing a word
- 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.
- stamp collecting — Stamp collecting is the hobby of building up a collection of stamps.
- 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
- storage terminal — A storage terminal is a building or area with large tanks for storing oil, gas, and other petrochemical products.
- summary judgment — a judgment, as in an action for debt, that is entered without the necessity of jury trial, based on affidavits of the creditor and debtor that convince the court that there is no arguable issue.
- summer lightning — distant sheet lightning without audible thunder, which typically occurs on a summer evening
- sumo (wrestling) — a highly stylized Japanese form of wrestling engaged in by large, extremely heavy men
- swimming costume — A swimming costume is the same as a swimsuit.
- 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.
- systems engineer — an engineer who specializes in the implementation of production systems.
- tariff agreement — an agreement between countries or geographical areas relating to taxes levied by governments on imports or occasionally exports for purposes of protection, support of the balance of payments, or the raising of revenue
- teaching machine — a mechanical, electrical, or other automatic device that presents the user with items of information in planned sequence, registers his or her response to each item, and immediately indicates the acceptability of each response.
- the england team — any sports team representing England, esp the England football team.
- the mekong delta — the area where the Mekong River empties into the sea through distributaries
- the missing link — a hypothetical extinct animal or animal group, formerly thought to be intermediate between the anthropoid apes and man
- the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
- thermal cracking — Thermal cracking is an extraction process in which hydrocarbons such as crude oil are heated to a high temperature to break the molecular bonds.
- thermoregulation — the regulation of body temperature.
- tiger salamander — a salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum, common in North America, having a dark body marked with yellowish spots or bars.
- time sovereignty — control by an employee of the use of his or her time, involving flexibility of working hours
- to pass judgment — If you pass judgment on someone or something, you give your opinion about it, especially if you are making a criticism.
- tomorrow evening — on the evening of the day after today
- 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.
- trigeminal nerve — of or relating to the trigeminal nerve.