13-letter words containing t, e, g, m
- straight time — the time or number of hours established as standard for a specific work period in a particular industry, usually computed on the basis of a workweek and fixed variously from 35 to 40 hours.
- strong-minded — having a forceful and independent mind.
- subgovernment — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- suggestionism — the art of hypnotic suggestion
- supplementing — something added to complete a thing, supply a deficiency, or reinforce or extend a whole.
- sweet sorghum — sorgo.
- systematology — the science of systems or their formation.
- target market — intended customers
- team teaching — a system whereby two or more teachers pool their skills, knowledge, etc, to teach combined classes
- telecommuting — working at home by using a computer terminal electronically linked to one's place of employment.
- telegrammatic — a message or communication sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
- telemarketing — selling or advertising by telephone.
- televangelism — Christian preaching on TV
- temple orange — a hybrid fruit, Citrus nobilis, that is a cross between the sweet orange and the tangerine.
- temporizingly — in a yielding manner
- the big smoke — a large city, esp London
- the hermitage — an art museum in St Petersburg, originally a palace built by Catherine the Great
- the high jump — an athletic event in which a competitor has to jump over a high bar set between two vertical supports
- the limelight — a position of public attention or notice (esp in the phrase in the limelight)
- the long term — the time some years ahead, (as opposed to the immediate future)
- thermogenesis — the production of heat, especially in an animal body by physiological processes.
- thermosetting — pertaining to a type of plastic, as the urea resins, that sets when heated and cannot be remolded.
- thermostating — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
- thinking time — time to think
- thremmatology — the science of breeding or propagating animals and plants under domestication.
- tiger economy — an economy that maintains a high growth rate, originally referring to the relatively small economies of South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in East Asia.
- tight-mouthed — tight-lipped.
- timing device — a device that can be set to detonate a bomb at a particular time
- to loom large — If something, especially a problem or worry looms large, it occupies a lot of your thoughts and seems important.
- trade embargo — a government order imposing a trade barrier
- troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
- tumorgenicity — the state of being tumorgenic, giving rise to tumours
- tumorigenesis — the production or development of tumors.
- tungsten lamp — an incandescent electric lamp in which the filament is made of tungsten.
- tzom gedaliah — a Jewish fast day observed on the third day of the month of Tishri in memory of the treacherous murder of Gedaliah, Jewish governor of Judah appointed by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia.
- ugly customer — a hostile or dangerous person.
- ungentlemanly — not courteous or chivalrous
- unimaginative — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
- unimpregnated — not saturated, soaked or infused (with something)
- unremittingly — not slackening or abating; incessant: unremitting noise; unremitting attention.
- unstigmatized — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
- untremblingly — not tremblingly; in an untrembling manner; without trembling
- vegetarianism — the beliefs or practices of a vegetarian.
- virtual image — an optical image formed by the apparent divergence of rays from a point, rather than their actual divergence from a point
- visiting team — sports team playing away from home ground
- watch meeting — a religious meeting or service on watch night, terminating on the arrival of the new year.
- weighted mean — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.
- west germanic — a subbranch of Germanic that includes English, Frisian, Flemish, Dutch, Plattdeutsch, Yiddish, and German. Abbreviation: WGmc.
- whitesmithing — The trade of a whitesmith.
- wild bergamot — a plant, Monarda fistulosa, of the mint family, native to eastern North America, having a rounded cluster of lilac-colored or purple flowers, growing in dry places.