15-letter words containing a, g, o
- to grab hold of — Hold is used in expressions such as grab hold of, catch hold of, and get hold of, to indicate that you close your hand tightly around something, for example to stop something moving or falling.
- to sow gapeseed — to stare in a gaping manner instead of attending to business
- toilet training — child: process of learning to use toilet
- topgallant mast — a mast fixed to the head of a topmast on a square-rigged vessel.
- topgallant sail — a sail or either of two sails set on the yard or yards of a topgallant mast.
- topographic map — a map showing topographic features, usually by means of contour lines.
- toucan crossing — a place where people who are walking and cyclists can both cross a busy road together. They press a button at the side of the road, which operates traffic lights to stop the traffic
- toughened glass — glass that has been made stronger using chemical or thermal treatments so that it will not break easily
- traction engine — a locomotive operating on surfaces other than tracks and pulling heavy loads, as fallen logs.
- trading account — an account similar to a traditional bank account, holding cash and securities, and administered by an investment dealer
- trading company — a company that is owned by the people who have bought shares in that company
- trading profits — profits made from the buying and selling of goods and services
- training course — practical programme of study
- training ground — an area where people prepare for sporting competitions, with activities primarily concentrating on skills and fitness
- training school — a school that provides training in some art, profession, or vocation.
- transfer lounge — the place in an airport where you wait for a transfer from one flight to another
- transfiguration — the act of transfiguring.
- transgressional — of or relating to transgression
- traumatological — relating to traumatology
- traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
- typographically — of or relating to typography.
- ultra-religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- ultrasonography — a diagnostic imaging technique utilizing reflected high-frequency sound waves to delineate, measure, or examine internal body structures or organs.
- unaccommodating — easy to deal with; eager to help or please; obliging.
- uncategorizable — not able to be categorized or placed into a category
- unchoreographed — not choreographed; not pre-arranged or pre-prepared; unplanned
- unchronological — arranged in the order of time: a chronological list of events.
- uncommunicating — to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.
- uncomplainingly — in an unresentful or resigned manner
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- undisappointing — not disappointing
- union catalogue — a catalogue listing every publication held at cooperating libraries
- unknowledgeable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- upper arlington — a city in central Ohio, near Columbus.
- urban migration — the process of people moving from rural areas to cities
- urban sociology — the sociological study of cities and their role in the development of society.
- uropygial gland — a gland opening on the back at the base of the tail in most birds that secretes an oily fluid used by the bird in preening its feathers.
- us savings bond — A US Savings bond is a long-term bond issued by the US government that is considered low-risk.
- ust-kamenogorsk — a city in E Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
- utility program — system software used to perform standard operations, as sorting data or copying data from one file to another, for application programs or other system software.
- vanishing point — a point of disappearance, cessation, or extinction: His patience had reached the vanishing point.
- variable region — a configuration in the upper branches of the Y of an antibody molecule, unique in each antibody type, that binds with the determinant of a specific antigen.
- vegetable ivory — ivory (def 9).
- vegetative coma — a condition in which an injured person is alive but comatose, and does not respond to stimuli
- village college — a centre, often for a group of villages, with educational and recreational facilities for the whole neighbourhood
- virginian stock — a similar and related North American plant, Malcolmia maritima
- virtual storage — a system whereby addressable memory is extended beyond main storage through the use of secondary storage managed by system software in such a way that programs can treat all of the designated storage as addressable main storage.
- völkerwanderung — the migration of peoples, esp of Germanic and Slavic peoples into S and W Europe from 2nd to 11th centuries
- voltage divider — a resistor or series of resistors connected to a voltage source and used to provide voltages that are fractions of that of the source.
- voronoi diagram — (mathematics, graphics) (Or "Voronoi tessellation", "Voronoi decomposition", "Dirichlet tessellation", After Georgy Feodosevich Voronoy) For a set S of points in a Euclidean space, the partition Vor(S) of the plane into the voronoi polygons associated with the members of S, where each polygon is defined by the set of points nearer to some given point in S than to any other point in S. The Voronoi diagram is the dual of the Delaunay triangulation of S.