15-letter words containing a, e, g, n
- target audience — the target audience of a programme is the group of people that the programme-makers are trying to persuade to watch or listen to it
- target language — the language into which a text is to be translated from another language. Compare source language (def 1).
- tarn-et-garonne — a department in S France. 1440 sq. mi. (3730 sq. km). Capital: Montauban.
- teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
- technologically — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
- telegraph plant — a tick trefoil, Desmodium motorium, of the legume family, native to tropical Asia, noted for the spontaneous, jerking, signallike motions of its leaflets.
- teng hsiao-ping — Deng Xiaoping.
- terra incognita — an unknown or unexplored land, region, or subject.
- testing station — an establishment licensed to issue warrants of fitness for motor vehicles
- tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
- thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
- the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
- the everlasting — God
- the living dead — dead people that have been brought back to life by a supernatural force
- the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
- the saint leger — an annual horse race run at Doncaster since 1776: one of the classics of the flat-racing season
- the working man — working class people collectively
- the wrong track — the incorrect line of investigation, inquiry, etc
- the-night-watch — a painting (1642) by Rembrandt.
- thermal imaging — Thermal imaging is the use of special equipment that can detect the heat produced by people or things and use it to produce images of them.
- thought pattern — habitual way of thinking
- thought reading — mind reading.
- tiffany setting — a setting, as in a ring, in which the stone is held with prongs.
- time management — organized use of time
- tintagel castle — a ruined castle on a promontory in SW England on the W coast of Cornwall, which is the legendary birthplace of King Arthur
- tissue-matching — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
- to change hands — When something changes hands, its ownership changes, usually because it is sold to someone else.
- toilet training — child: process of learning to use toilet
- toughened glass — glass that has been made stronger using chemical or thermal treatments so that it will not break easily
- tracking device — an electronic security device which allows you to monitor the location of a person or object, esp a vehicle
- traction engine — a locomotive operating on surfaces other than tracks and pulling heavy loads, as fallen logs.
- trade agreement — commercial treaty between nations
- trading partner — a person, organization, or country with whom somebody customarily does business
- traffic manager — a person who supervises the transportation of goods for an employer.
- training agency — (in Britain, formerly) an organization providing training and retraining for adult workers
- training centre — a place where people undergo skills training for work
- training course — practical programme of study
- training scheme — a scheme for teaching people skills in a particular field or profession
- training wheels — a pair of small wheels attached one on each side of the rear wheel of a bicycle for stability while one is learning to ride.
- transfer lounge — the place in an airport where you wait for a transfer from one flight to another
- transgressional — of or relating to transgression
- traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
- travelling wave — a wave carrying energy away from its source
- treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
- trigger warning — a stated warning that the content of a text, video, etc., may upset or offend some people, especially those who have previously experienced a related trauma: a blog post with a trigger warning for rape.
- triple integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of three variables and which requires three applications of the integration process to evaluate.
- tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
- tumbling barrel — a rotating drum for subjecting materials or small manufactured objects, loosely placed inside, to a tumbling action, as to mix materials or to polish objects by friction with one another or with an abrasive.
- tungsten rating — a film-speed rating that indicates the relative sensitivity of a particular film stock to light from incandescent lamps with tungsten filaments.
- ultracentrifuge — a high-speed centrifuge for subjecting sols or solutions to forces many times that of gravity and producing concentration differences depending on the weight of the micelle or molecule.