16-letter words containing a, g, e, n, t, r

national gallery — a major art gallery in London, in Trafalgar Square. Founded in 1824, it contains the largest collection of paintings in Britain
natural language — a language used as a native tongue by a group of speakers.
natural religion — religion based on principles derived solely from reason and the study of nature.
natural theology — theology based on knowledge of the natural world and on human reason, apart from revelation.
negative-raising — a rule that moves a negative element out of the complement clause of certain verbs, such as think, into the main clause, as in the derivation of He doesn't think that he'll finish
neuropathologies — the pathology of the nervous system.
neuropathologist — A specialist who practices neuropathology.
nightingale ward — a long hospital ward with beds on either side and the nurses' station in the middle
nitrogen balance — the difference between the amount of nitrogen taken in and the amount excreted or lost: used to evaluate nutritional balance.
nitrogen mustard — any of the class of poisonous, blistering compounds, as C 5 H 1 1 Cl 2 N, analogous in composition to mustard gas but containing nitrogen instead of sulfur: used in the treatment of cancer and similar diseases; mechlorethamine.
nonreciprocating — Not reciprocating; not responding in kind.
northanger abbey — a novel (1818) by Jane Austen.
nuclear magneton — a unit of magnetic moment, used to measure proton spin and approximately equal to 1/1836 Bohr magneton.
objective danger — a danger, such as a stone fall or avalanche, to which climbing skill is irrelevant
oblique triangle — any triangle that does not have a right angle (contrasted with right triangle).
odds are against — If you say that the odds are against something or someone, you mean that they are unlikely to succeed.
of a certain age — of an unspecified age, but no longer young
oil storage tank — a very large industrial container where petroleum is stored
on (the) average — as an average quantity, rate, etc.
on the downgrade — waning in importance, popularity, health, etc
operating budget — money allocated to a project
operating income — revenue from business operations after operating expenses are deducted from gross income.
operating manual — a leaflet of instructions on how to use something (such as an electrical appliance, etc)
operating margin — An operating margin is a ratio used to measure how well a company controls its costs, that is calculated by dividing operating income by net sales, and expressing it as a percentage.
operating profit — the profit of a company, etc, after it deducts its operating costs or the costs necessary to conduct the business
operating system — (operating system) (OS) The low-level software which handles the interface to peripheral hardware, schedules tasks, allocates storage, and presents a default interface to the user when no application program is running. The OS may be split into a kernel which is always present and various system programs which use facilities provided by the kernel to perform higher-level house-keeping tasks, often acting as servers in a client-server relationship. Some would include a graphical user interface and window system as part of the OS, others would not. The operating system loader, BIOS, or other firmware required at boot time or when installing the operating system would generally not be considered part of the operating system, though this distinction is unclear in the case of a rommable operating system such as RISC OS. The facilities an operating system provides and its general design philosophy exert an extremely strong influence on programming style and on the technical cultures that grow up around the machines on which it runs. Example operating systems include 386BSD, AIX, AOS, Amoeba, Angel, Artemis microkernel, BeOS, Brazil, COS, CP/M, CTSS, Chorus, DACNOS, DOSEXEC 2, GCOS, GEORGE 3, GEOS, ITS, KAOS, Linux, LynxOS, MPV, MS-DOS, MVS, Mach, Macintosh operating system, Microsoft Windows, MINIX, Multics, Multipop-68, Novell NetWare, OS-9, OS/2, Pick, Plan 9, QNX, RISC OS, STING, System V, System/360, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, TRUSIX, TWENEX, TYMCOM-X, Thoth, Unix, VM/CMS, VMS, VRTX, VSTa, VxWorks, WAITS.
operating-system — the collection of software that directs a computer's operations, controlling and scheduling the execution of other programs, and managing storage, input/output, and communication resources. Abbreviation: OS.
operationalizing — Present participle of operationalize.
organoleptically — In an organoleptic manner.
organophosphates — Plural form of organophosphate.
over-imaginative — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
overcapitalizing — Present participle of overcapitalize.
overcompensating — Present participle of overcompensate.
overcomplicating — Present participle of overcomplicate.
pacific sturgeon — a dark gray sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, inhabiting marine and fresh waters along the northwestern coast of North America, valued as a food and sport fish.
parents' evening — an occasion when the parents of children at a school and their teachers come together (outside normal school hours, in the evening) in order to discuss the progress or work of the children
parliament hinge — a butt hinge the knuckle of which protrudes from the door so that the door when fully opened stands away from the wall.
parser generator — A program which takes a formal description of a grammar (e.g. in BNF) and outputs source code for a parser which will recognise valid strings obeying that grammar and perform associated actions. Unix's yacc is a well known example.
partial ordering — a relation defined on a set, having the properties that each element is in relation to itself, the relation is transitive, and if two elements are in relation to each other, the two elements are equal.
pattern matching — 1. A function is defined to take arguments of a particular type, form or value. When applying the function to its actual arguments it is necessary to match the type, form or value of the actual arguments against the formal arguments in some definition. For example, the function length [] = 0 length (x:xs) = 1 + length xs uses pattern matching in its argument to distinguish a null list from a non-null one. There are well known algorithm for translating pattern matching into conditional expressions such as "if" or "case". E.g. the above function could be transformed to 2. Descriptive of a type of language or utility such as awk or Perl which is suited to searching for strings or patterns in input data, usually using some kind of regular expression.
pension mortgage — an arrangement whereby a person takes out a mortgage and pays the capital repayment instalments into a pension fund and the interest to the mortgagee. The loan is repaid out of the tax-free lump sum proceeds of the pension plan on the borrower's retirement
percentage point — difference: one per cent
permanent magnet — a magnet that retains its magnetism after being removed from an external magnetic field.
petrol rationing — a scheme rationing the amount of petrol that an individual is allowed to purchase
pharmacogenetics — the branch of pharmacology that examines the relation of genetic factors to variations in response to drugs.
platoon sergeant — the senior noncommissioned officer in a platoon, equivalent to sergeant first class.
pneumatic trough — a trough filled with liquid, especially water, for collecting gases in bell jars or the like by displacement.
portuguese india — a former Portuguese overseas territory on the W coast of India, consisting of the districts of Gôa, Daman, and Diu: annexed by India December 1961. Capital: Gôa.
potential energy — the energy of a body or a system with respect to the position of the body or the arrangement of the particles of the system.
practice manager — the manager of a business such as a medical practice, dental practice, or legal practice

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