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20-letter words containing a, g, e, n, t

  • clay-pigeon shooting — the activity of shooting clay pigeons
  • cleansing department — the department of a local authority that collects refuse
  • coalition government — a government containing members of two or more political parties
  • cognitive dissonance — an uncomfortable mental state resulting from conflicting cognitions; usually resolved by changing some of the cognitions
  • collective agreement — a negotiated agreement, which is not enforceable at law, between an employer and employees' representatives, covering rates of pay or terms and conditions of employment, or both
  • college of education — a professional training college for teachers
  • collegiate institute — (in certain provinces) a large secondary school with an academic, rather than vocational, emphasis
  • comparative judgment — any judgment about whether there is a difference between two or more stimuli
  • comparative religion — a field of study seeking to derive general principles from a comparison and classification of the growth and influence of various religions.
  • compensating balance — Also, compensated balance, compensation balance. a balance wheel in a timepiece, designed to compensate for variations in tension in the hair spring caused by changes in temperature.
  • compensation package — the sum of compensation awarded in a legal case
  • compensatory damages — sum paid for a loss
  • complementary angles — either of two angles that added together produce an angle of 90°.
  • computer programming — the activity or profession of writing computer programs
  • confectioners' sugar — Confectioners' sugar is very fine white sugar that is used for making icing and candy.
  • congressman-at-large — (in the US) a member of the House of Representatives who was elected by the voters of an entire state as opposed to the voters of a single Congressional district
  • context-free grammar — (grammar)   (CFG) A grammar where the syntax of each constituent (syntactic category or terminal symbol) is independent of the symbols occuring before and after it in a sentence. A context-free grammar describes a context-free language. Context-free grammars can be expressed by a set of "production rules" or syntactic rules. For example, a language with symbols "a" and "b" that must occur in unequal numbers can be represented by the CFG: S → U | V U → TaU | TaT | UaT V → TbV | TbT | VbT T → aTbT | bTaT | ε meaning the top-level category "S" consists of either a "U" or a "V" and so on. The special category "ε" represents the empty string. This grammar is context-free because each rule has a single symbol on its left-hand side.
  • continental congress — the assembly of delegates from the North American rebel colonies held during and after the War of American Independence. It issued the Declaration of Independence (1776) and framed the Articles of Confederation (1777)
  • contingency planning — planning for future events that seem less likely than others
  • contingent liability — a possible liability that is dependent on the outcome of a future event
  • continuing education — Continuing education is education for adults in a variety of subjects, most of which are practical, not academic.
  • continuing-education — adult education.
  • convective discharge — the repulsion of ions of a gas by a highly charged body, creating a discernible wind.
  • corporate governance — the balance of control between the stakeholders, managers, and directors of an organization
  • creative imagination — the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses.
  • crime against nature — Law. sodomy.
  • cut the gordian knot — to find a quick, bold solution for a perplexing problem
  • cylinder head gasket — (in an automobile engine) a gasket placed between the cylinder and the cylinder heads to avoid leaks of coolant and compression
  • daylight saving time — Daylight Saving Time is a period of time in the summer when the clocks are set one hour forward, so that people can have extra light in the evening.
  • daylight-saving time — the civil time observed when daylight saving is adopted in a country or community.
  • de facto segregation — racial, ethnic, or other segregation resulting from societal differences between groups, as socioeconomic or political disparity, without institutionalized legislation intended to segregate.
  • declarative language — (language)   Any relational language or functional language. These kinds of programming language describe relationships between variables in terms of functions or inference rules, and the language executor (interpreter or compiler) applies some fixed algorithm to these relations to produce a result. Declarative languages contrast with imperative languages which specify explicit manipulation of the computer's internal state; or procedural languages which specify an explicit sequence of steps to follow. The most common examples of declarative languages are logic programming languages such as Prolog and functional languages like Haskell. See also production system.
  • declaratory judgment — a judgment that merely decides the rights of parties in a given transaction, situation, or dispute but does not order any action or award damages.
  • decompartmentalizing — Present participle of decompartmentalize.
  • deinstitutionalizing — Present participle of deinstitutionalize.
  • dementia pugilistica — chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
  • deontological ethics — the branch of ethics dealing with right action and the nature of duty, without regard to the goodness or value of motives or the desirability of the ends of any act.
  • department of energy — the department of the U.S. federal government that sets forth and maintains the national energy policy, including energy conservation, environmental protection, etc. Abbreviation: DOE.
  • determinate cleavage — cell division in a fertilized or unfertilized egg resulting in daughter cells that are no longer able to produce a complete embryo by themselves
  • developing-out paper — a sensitized printing paper requiring development in order to bring out the image. Abbreviation: D.O.P.
  • development planning — the planning of the development of an area of land
  • diamond in the rough — a diamond in its natural state
  • dictionary catalogue — a catalogue of the authors, titles, and subjects of books in one alphabetical sequence
  • differential housing — the casing that houses the differential of a motor vehicle
  • differential pricing — a situation in which different prices are charged for the same product or service
  • digital service unit — data service unit
  • directional drilling — a method of drilling for oil in which the well is not drilled vertically, as when a number of wells are to be drilled from a single platform to reach different areas of an oil field
  • directory user agent — (DUA) The software that accesses the X.500 Directory Service on behalf of the directory user. The directory user may be a person or another software element.
  • displacement tonnage — the number of long tons of water displaced by a vessel, light or load displacement being specified.
  • domestic heating oil — a liquid petroleum product used to fuel residential building furnaces or boilers
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