16-letter words that end in ne
- radio microphone — a microphone incorporating a radio transmitter so that the user can move around freely
- reaction turbine — a turbine driven by the reactive force of a fluid passing through the rotor blades.
- reflection plane — a plane through a crystal that divides the crystal into two halves that are mirror images of each other.
- regular gasoline — unleaded gasoline or petrol, as for fuelling a vehicle, etc
- sauce americaine — a sauce prepared with tomatoes, garlic, wine, shallots, and herbs. See also à l’américaine.
- ship of the line — a former sailing warship armed powerfully enough to serve in the line of battle, usually having cannons ranged along two or more decks; battleship.
- silver-lace vine — a hardy, twining, woody plant, Polygonum auberti, of the buckwheat family, native to western China and Tibet, having greenish-white, fragrant flowers in drooping clusters.
- sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
- spraying machine — a device for spraying large volumes of liquid, such as insecticide onto crops
- stand to someone — to be useful to someone
- step out of line — to fail to conform to expected standards, attitudes, etc
- stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
- sulfarsphenamine — a yellow, water-soluble, arsenic-containing powder, C 1 4 H 1 4 As 2 N 2 Na 2 O 8 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of syphilis.
- summational tone — a musical sound sometimes heard when two loud notes are sounded together, higher in pitch than either
- swiss stone pine — a five-needled pine tree, Pinus cembra,, found especially in mountain regions of Central Europe and yielding edible seeds
- tablets of stone — Stone is used in expressions such as set in stone and tablets of stone to suggest that an idea or rule is firm and fixed, and cannot be changed.
- tanagra figurine — a small terra-cotta statuette produced from the late 4th to the 3rd century b.c. in Tanagra, Boeotia, and found chiefly in tombs.
- 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.
- terminal moraine — a moraine marking the farthest advance of a glacier or ice sheet.
- tetrahydrozoline — a compound, C 13 H 16 N 2 , used in the treatment of nasal congestion and certain conditions of eye irritation.
- the anthropocene — a proposed term for the present geological epoch (from the time of the Industrial Revolution onwards), during which humanity has begun to have a significant impact on the environment
- the next but one — the one after the next
- three-point line — Basketball. a field goal worth three points, made from behind a specified line (three-point line)
- to call the tune — If you say that a person or organization is calling the tune, you mean that they are in a position of power or control in a particular situation.
- to draw the line — If you draw the line at a particular activity, you refuse to do it, because you disapprove of it or because it is more extreme than what you normally do.
- to set the scene — If someone sets the scene or sets the stage for an event to take place, they make preparations so that it can take place.
- to wine and dine — If you wine and dine, or if someone wines and dines you, you go out, for example to expensive restaurants, and spend a lot of money.
- transcrystalline — situated within or passing through the crystals of a substance.
- trichloromethane — chloroform (def 1).
- triiodothyronine — Biochemistry. a thyroid hormone, C 15 H 12 I 3 NO 4 , similar to thyroxine but several times more potent.
- trimethylglycine — betaine.
- triphenylmethane — a colorless, crystalline, solid compound containing three benzene rings, C 19 H 16 , from which many dyes are derived.
- tropical cyclone — a cyclone that originates over a tropical ocean area and can develop into the destructive storm known in the U.S. as a hurricane, in the western Pacific region as a typhoon, and elsewhere by other names. Compare extratropical cyclone, hurricane (def 1), willy-willy.
- upper lough erne — a lough in Northern Ireland, fed by the river Erne
- vinylpyrrolidone — Vinylpyrrolidone is a substance used as a binder in pharmaceuticals.
- walking dragline — a very large-capacity dragline mounted on feet or pads instead of tracks
- weighing machine — large measuring scales
- wheel of fortune — wheel (def 9).