16-letter words containing ge
- preserved ginger — fresh ginger preserved in syrup and used in cooking, esp desserts
- prestige pricing — the practice of giving a product a high price to convey the idea that it must be of high quality or status
- private language — a language that is not merely secret or accidentally limited to one user, but that cannot in principle be communicated to another
- privileged altar — an altar at which a plenary indulgence for a departed soul may be granted upon celebration of a Mass.
- prolonged-action — sustained-release.
- proof of postage — a document, such as a receipt, etc, that proves that you have posted or mailed something
- provost sergeant — the senior noncommissioned officer of a prison or other confinement facility whose chief duty is the supervision of prisoners and of the military police unit.
- psychogeriatrics — the psychology of old age.
- publicity agency — an advertising agency; a firm that gets publicity for people or products
- punitive damages — law: penalty payment
- purchasing agent — a person who buys materials, supplies, equipment, etc., for a company.
- quasi-managerial — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
- queen maud range — a mountain range in Antarctica, in Ross Dependency, S of the Ross Sea.
- quinquagenarians — Plural form of quinquagenarian.
- radio evangelist — a Christian minister who devotes time to preaching on the radio
- railway carriage — a railway coach for passengers
- rate of exchange — exchange rate.
- rattle so's cage — If someone rattles your cage, they do something which is intended to make you feel nervous.
- receiver general — a public official in charge of the government's treasury.
- recorded message — words spoken by someone and recorded electronically in order to be replayed again in future, esp automatically over the phone
- refrigerator car — a freight car having either an ice chest or machinery for chilling perishables and sometimes having a heating unit to keep perishables from freezing.
- regent bowerbird — a bowerbird, Sericulus chrysocephalus, the males of which have deep black plumage with brilliant golden head, neck, and wing patches and build elaborate bowers.
- register tonnage — the volume of a vessel, especially the net tonnage as measured officially and registered for purposes of taxation.
- reverse a charge — If you reverse a charge on a credit card, you put the amount you have charged back into the credit card account.
- reverse mortgage — a type of home mortgage under which an elderly homeowner is allowed a long-term loan in the form of monthly payments against his or her paid-off equity as collateral, repayable when the home is eventually sold. Abbreviation: RAM.
- ring the changes — to make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone: to change one's name; to change one's opinion; to change the course of history.
- roentgenotherapy — treatment of disease by means of x-rays.
- rumour-mongering — the act of spreading rumours
- savage's station — a locality in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle in 1862.
- saxifrage family — the plant family Saxifragaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and small trees having alternate or opposite leaves, clustered or solitary flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the astilbe, currant, deutzia, gooseberry, hydrangea, mock orange, piggy-back plant, saxifrage, and strawberry geranium.
- scavenger beetle — any beetle of the mostly aquatic family Hydrophilidae, having clubbed antennae and long palps, and usually feeding on decaying vegetation
- schiff's reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- school-age child — a child who is old enough to go to school
- scratch together — to assemble with difficulty
- second messenger — any of various intracellular chemical substances, as cyclic AMP, that transmit and amplify the messages delivered by a first messenger to specific receptors on the cell surface.
- 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.
- 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.
- shopping village — a shopping centre that designed to look like a village
- shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
- signal generator — radio
- size enlargement — Size enlargement is a process in which the particle size of a solid is increased.
- slugging average — a measure of the effectiveness of a batter in making base hits, obtained by dividing the total bases reached by hitting by the number of official times at bat and carrying out the result to three decimal places. A batter making 275 total bases in 500 times at bat has a slugging average of .550.
- software package — bundle of files to execute computer program
- sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
- springer spaniel — a dog of either of two breeds of medium-sized spaniels, used for flushing and retrieving game.
- stage production — a play or show which is performed on stage
- stagedoor johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
- static discharge — Static discharge is the release of static electricity when two objects touch each other.
- statutory change — a change in the law