23-letter words containing a, n, g, i, o, s
- spigot and socket joint — a joint between two pipes using male and female parts
- standard widget toolkit — (graphics, programming, standard) (SWT) The Eclipse Foundation's framework for developing graphical user interfaces in Java. SWT is written in explicitly standard Java but uses the Java Native Interface to talk to a platform-native GUI library. SWT is the third major attempt to give Java a decent GUI framework, following AWT and Swing. Of the three, SWT is the most consistent with the native GUIs but its programming model is hard to port to non-Windows platforms.
- state-trading countries — countries whose export and import trading is government controlled
- sterling software, inc. — (company) A software company which was bought out by Computer Associates International, Inc.
- stimulus generalization — generalization (def 4a).
- stimulus-generalization — the act or process of generalizing.
- stock and station agent — a firm dealing in and financing farm activities
- straight bill of lading — a bill of lading that is issued to a specified consignee for the delivery of the goods and that cannot be endorsed to another party.
- take sthing on the chin — If you say that someone took something on the chin, you mean that they accepted an unpleasant or difficult situation bravely and without making a lot of fuss about it.
- tennessee walking horse — an American breed of horse, marked by its stamina and trained to move at a fast running walk
- the library of congress — the official library of the United States in Washington, DC. It houses extensive collections in all subject areas and formats, important historical documents, and is also a depository for copyrighted materials.
- the taming of the shrew — a comedy (1594?) by Shakespeare.
- the teaching profession — the profession of a teacher
- thompson submachine gun — a portable, .45-caliber, automatic weapon designed to be fired from the shoulder or hip.
- thousand and one nights — a collection of Eastern folk tales derived in part from Indian and Persian sources and dating from the 10th century a.d.
- to have feelings for sb — to be emotionally or sexually attracted to
- to send someone packing — If you send someone packing, you make them go away.
- tongass national forest — a temperate rainforest in SE Alaska that also harbors more than two dozen communities, including Juneau: largest US national forest. 17 million acres (69,000 km).
- transplantation antigen — a histocompatibility antigen identified by its effect on the rejection of transplanted cells or tissues.
- trigonal trisoctahedron — a trisoctahedron whose faces are triangles.
- triple expansion engine — (formerly) a steam engine in which the steam is expanded in three stages in cylinders of increasing diameter to accommodate the increasing volume of the steam
- unconditional discharge — the release of a defendant without having to spend time on parole or probation
- voter registration card — a card that enables a person to register in order to vote
- voyageurs national park — a national park in N Minnesota. 343 sq. mi. (888 sq. km).
- western lowland gorilla — the largest of the anthropoid apes, Gorilla gorilla, terrestrial and vegetarian, of western equatorial Africa and the Kivu highlands, comprising the subspecies G. g. gorilla (western lowland gorilla) G. g. graueri (eastern lowland gorilla) and G. g. beringei (mountain gorilla) now rare.