Term: eminence grise: (French) a person who exercises power or influence in certain areas without holding an official position
Broader: important person: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events | Unrelated: overhead: a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
Broader: important person: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events | Unrelated: job's tears: hard pearly seeds of an Asiatic grass; often used as beads
Broader: important person: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events | Unrelated: quadratic equation: an equation in which the highest power of an unknown quantity is a square
Broader: important person: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events | Unrelated: social anthropologist: an anthropologist who studies such cultural phenomena as kinship systems
Broader: important person: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events | Unrelated: expansion bit: a bit with a cutting blade that can be adjusted to different sizes
Broader: important person: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events | Unrelated: o: the 15th letter of the Roman alphabet
Broader: important person: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events | Unrelated: scutigera: a genus of Scutigeridae
Broader: important person: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events | Unrelated: rima: a narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts
Broader: important person: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events | Unrelated: magnetic declination: the angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north
Broader: important person: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events | Unrelated: pellaea: genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae