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20-letter words containing ome

  • jerk someone's chain — to tease, mislead, or harass someone
  • kluver-bucy syndrome — a syndrome caused by bilateral injury to the temporal lobes and characterized by memory defect, hypersexuality, excessive oral behavior, and diminished fear reactions.
  • lampbrush chromosome — a chromosome with looped projections resembling a brush
  • lead someone a dance — to cause someone continued worry and exasperation; play up
  • let someone off with — to give (a light punishment) to someone
  • look homeward, angel — a novel (1929) by Thomas Wolfe.
  • make eyes at someone — If you make eyes at someone, you look at them in a way which shows that you find them attractive and which is intended to get their attention.
  • make love to someone — to have sexual intercourse with someone
  • mean something to sb — If a name, word, or phrase means something to you, you have heard it before and you know what it refers to.
  • near someone's heart — dear or important to someone
  • net domestic product — the gross domestic product minus an allowance for the depreciation of capital goods
  • no lack of something — If you say there is no lack of something, you are emphasizing that there is a great deal of it.
  • omega-3 (fatty acid) — a type of polyunsaturated fatty acid in fish oil, shellfish, soybeans, etc., linked to low cholesterol and low LDL levels
  • omega-minus particle — a baryon with strangeness −3, isotopic spin 0, and negative charge; predicted from the mathematics of the Eightfold Way and subsequently discovered. Symbol: Ω −.
  • on someone's account — Your feelings on someone's account are the feelings you have about what they have experienced or might experience, especially when you imagine yourself to be in their situation.
  • one's spiritual home — Your spiritual home is the place where you feel that you belong, usually because your ideas or attitudes are the same as those of the people who live there.
  • ophthalmodynamometer — a device for determining the nearest point of ocular convergence.
  • parkinson's syndrome — a complex of symptoms indistinguishable from Parkinson's disease, commonly affecting boxers or sometimes occurring as a result of substance abuse or an encephalitic infection.
  • pick someone's brain — to obtain information or ideas from someone
  • pickwickian syndrome — an abnormality characterized by extreme obesity accompanied by sleepiness, hypoventilation, and polycythemia.
  • poor man's something — a (cheaper) substitute for something
  • psychological moment — the proper or critical time for achieving a desired result: She found the right psychological moment to make her request.
  • psychometric testing — the use of psychometric tests, often as a selection method
  • radio interferometer — any of several different types of instrumentation designed to observe interference patterns of electromagnetic radiation at radio wavelengths: used in the discovery and measurement of radio sources in the atmosphere.
  • raynaud's phenomenon — a secondary circulatory disorder, often associated with a primary vascular disease, characterized by changes of blood flow resulting in white, bluish, or red hands and feet
  • satellite chromosome — a type of densely staining chromosome of uncertain biological function, found in many plant and animal species.
  • save someone's bacon — to help someone to escape from danger
  • send someone packing — to dismiss or get rid of (someone) peremptorily
  • shaken baby syndrome — a usually fatal condition of abused infants brought on by violent shaking by the arms or shoulders that causes severe internal bleeding, especially around the brain and in the eyes.
  • some hope/not a hope — If you say 'Some hope', or 'Not a hope', you think there is no possibility that something will happen, although you may want it to happen.
  • someone's last stand — You can describe someone's final attempt to defend themselves before they are defeated as their last stand.
  • spike someone's guns — a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
  • stoichiometric ratio — The stoichiometric ratio is the exact ratio between air and flammable gas or vapor at which complete combustion takes place.
  • structural isomerism — Chemistry. the relation of two or more compounds, radicals, or ions that are composed of the same kinds and numbers of atoms but differ from each other in structural arrangement (structural isomerism) as CH 3 OCH 3 and CH 3 CH 2 OH, or in the arrangement of their atoms in space and therefore in one or more properties. Compare optical isomerism, stereoisomerism.
  • take pity on someone — If you take pity on someone, you feel sorry for them and help them.
  • take something amiss — to be annoyed or offended by something
  • tangent galvanometer — a type of galvanometer having a vertical coil of wire with a horizontal magnetic needle at its centre. The current to be measured is passed through the coil and produces a proportional magnetic field which deflects the needle
  • the gnomes of zurich — Swiss bankers and financiers
  • the price of someone — what someone deserves, esp a fitting punishment
  • the-comedy-of-errors — an early comedy (1594) by Shakespeare.
  • tie someone in knots — to completely perplex or confuse someone
  • to come to full term — to be carried or last until the ninth month of gestation or pregnancy
  • to cost someone dear — If something that someone does costs them dear, they suffer a lot as a result of it.
  • to give someone hell — If you say that someone gives you hell, you are emphasizing that they shout at you very angrily because of something you have done wrong.
  • toxic shock syndrome — a rapidly developing, sometimes fatal infection characterized by sudden onset of fever, gastrointestinal upsets, a sunburnlike rash, and a drop in blood pressure: caused by a Staphylococcus aureus toxin and occurring especially in menstruating women using high-absorbency tampons. Abbreviation: TSS.
  • trigonometric series — an infinite series involving sines and cosines of increasing integral multiples of a variable.
  • upper income bracket — a grouping of the highest earning tax payers
  • watch someone's back — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • wet-bulb thermometer — a thermometer having a bulb that is kept moistened when humidity determinations are being made with a psychrometer.
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