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12-letter words containing t, e, g, m

  • program note — A program note is an article written in a program for a play or concert that gives information about the performance or production.
  • pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
  • race meeting — A race meeting is an occasion when a series of horse races are held at the same place, often during a period of several days.
  • re-alignment — an adjustment to a line; arrangement in a straight line.
  • reassignment — something assigned, as a particular task or duty: She completed the assignment and went on to other jobs.
  • reflectogram — an image of an under-drawing or image taken from beneath the surface of paint in a work of art
  • reformatting — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
  • remote login — (networking)   A client-server program and protocol that provides an interactivel command line interface to a remote computer, using a protocol over a computer network, simulating a locally attached terminal.
  • repromulgate — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • retromingent — urinating backward because of bodily configuration: The lion is a retromingent animal.
  • rheumatology — the study and treatment of rheumatic diseases.
  • right-minded — having correct, honest, or good opinions or principles.
  • risorgimento — the period of or the movement for the liberation and unification of Italy 1750–1870.
  • running mate — a candidate for an office linked with another and more important office, as for the vice-presidency.
  • running time — Movies. the length or duration, usually expressed in minutes, of a feature film: The running time of the average film is 90–100 minutes.
  • sausage meat — minced and processed pork
  • scapegoatism — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
  • segmentalize — to make segmentalized.
  • segmentation — division into segments.
  • seismologist — the science or study of earthquakes and their phenomena.
  • semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
  • septuagesima — the third Sunday before Lent.
  • seringapatam — a town in S Karnataka, in S India, former capital of Mysore state: taken by the British 1799.
  • slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
  • smotheringly — in a smothering manner
  • smyth sewing — a method of sewing together folded, gathered, and collated signatures with a single thread sewn through the folds of individual signatures.
  • sphygmometer — a device which measures the rate of the pulse
  • stage-manage — to work as a stage manager for: When he wasn't acting, he stage-managed a repertory theater.
  • steam engine — an engine worked by steam, typically one in which a sliding piston in a cylinder is moved by the expansive action of the steam generated in a boiler.
  • steam-engine — an engine worked by steam, typically one in which a sliding piston in a cylinder is moved by the expansive action of the steam generated in a boiler.
  • steering arm — the part of a vehicle's chassis that directs the input from the steering box
  • steinamanger — German name of Szombathely.
  • stem-winding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
  • stigmasterol — a crystalline, water-insoluble steroid, C 2 9 H 4 8 O, present in soybeans or calabar beans, used chiefly as a raw material in the manufacture of progesterone.
  • streamlining — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
  • sub-mortgage — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
  • summerweight — (of clothes) suitable in weight for wear in the summer; relatively light
  • syntagmatite — a dark crystalline form of hornblende
  • take umbrage — If you say that a person takes umbrage, you mean that they are upset or offended by something that someone says or does to them, often without much reason.
  • tasting menu — a fixed-price restaurant meal or menu consisting of small portions of numerous dishes: We ordered the 6-course tasting menu for $125.
  • tempus fugit — time flies
  • tent meeting — camp meeting.
  • terraforming — to alter the environment of (a celestial body) in order to make capable of supporting terrestrial life forms.
  • text message — an electronic message sent over a cellular network from one cell phone to another by typing words, often in shortened form, as “l8t” for “late,” on the phone's numeric or QWERTY keypad.
  • thaumatogeny — the belief that the origin of life was the result of a miracle
  • the almighty — God
  • the big time — great success or fame
  • thermalgesia — pain caused by heat.
  • thermography — a technique for imitating an embossed appearance, as on business cards, stationery, or the like, by dusting printed areas with a powder that adheres only to the wet ink, and fusing the ink and powder to the paper by heat.
  • tiger market — any of the four most important markets on the Pacific rim after Japan: Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan
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