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19-letter words containing a, n, g, i, o, t

  • talleyrand-perigord — Charles Maurice de [sharl moh-rees duh] /ʃarl moʊˈris də/ (Show IPA), Prince de Bénévent [duh bey-ney-vahn] /də beɪ neɪˈvɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1754–1838, French statesman.
  • taming of the shrew — a comedy (1594?) by Shakespeare.
  • tangential-velocity — the component of the linear motion of a star with respect to the sun, measured along a line perpendicular to its line of sight and expressed in miles or kilometers per second.
  • teaching fellowship — a fellowship providing a student in a graduate school with free tuition and expenses and stipulating that the student assume some teaching duties in return.
  • the golden triangle — an opium-producing area of SE Asia, comprising parts of Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand
  • the great mentioner — the phenomenon whereby certain people are rumoured to be possible presidential or gubernatorial candidates before the rumour is denied or endorsed
  • the oceanic feeling — a term coined by Sigmund Freud to describe the feeling experienced by people who have religious faith
  • the roaring forties — the areas of ocean between 40° and 50° latitude in the S Hemisphere, noted for gale-force winds
  • therapeutic cloning — the permitted creation of cloned human tissues for surgical transplant
  • three-point landing — an aircraft landing in which the two wheels of the main landing gear and the tail or nose wheel touch the ground simultaneously.
  • thrust augmentation — an increase in the thrust of a jet or rocket engine, as by afterburning or reheating.
  • time sharing option — (operating system)   (TSO) System software from IBM that provides time-sharing on an IBM mainframe running in an MVS environment.
  • to change your mind — If you change your mind, or if someone or something changes your mind, you change a decision you have made or an opinion that you had.
  • to go blackberrying — to go on an outing to collect blackberries
  • to grin and bear it — If you grin and bear it, you accept a difficult or unpleasant situation without complaining because you know there is nothing you can do to make things better.
  • to ring the changes — If you say that someone rings the changes, you mean that they make changes or improvements to the way something is organized or done.
  • traffic regulations — rules designed to expedite the flow of traffic and prevent collisions
  • training instructor — a person who teaches people the skills they need for a particular field or profession
  • trentino-alto adige — a region in NE Italy. 870,238; 5256 sq. mi. (13.615 sq. km).
  • trinidad and tobago — (used with a plural verb) two islands in the N Atlantic Ocean, off the NE coast of Venezuela.
  • turbo-ramjet engine — a combination engine that can be operated as a turbojet or ramjet engine.
  • ultrasonic cleaning — the use of ultrasound to vibrate a piece to be cleaned while the piece is immersed in a cleaning fluid. The process produces a very high degree of cleanliness, and is used for jewellery and ornately shaped items
  • unorganized ferment — ferment (def 2).
  • vaginal intercourse — intercourse involving insertion of the penis into the vagina
  • valley of the kings — a valley on the west bank of the Nile near the site of Thebes: the necropolis of many of the kings and queens of the 18th and 19th dynasties of ancient Egypt, c1350–c1200 b.c.
  • vigilance committee — an unauthorized committee of citizens organized for the maintenance of order and the summary punishment of crime in the absence of regular or efficient courts.
  • vocational guidance — the process of assisting a student to choose, prepare for, and enter an occupation for which he or she shows aptitude.
  • wage-push inflation — an inflationary trend caused by wage increases that in turn cause rises in production costs and prices.
  • wandering albatross — a large albatross, Diomedea exulans, of southern waters, having the plumage mostly white with dark markings on the upper parts.
  • white-handed gibbon — a gibbon, Hylobates lar, inhabiting Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, and northern Sumatra, varying from black to light buff in color, and having white hands and feet: an endangered species.
  • within rocket range — able to be reached by rockets
  • writing on the wall — writing done with a pen or pencil in the hand; script.
  • yellowtail kingfish — a large carangid game fish, Seriola grandis, of S Australian waters
  • young conservatives — the youth section of the United Kingdom Conservative Party until 1998
  • zero-base budgeting — a process in government and corporate finance of justifying an overall budget or individual budgeted items each fiscal year or each review period rather than dealing only with proposed changes from a previous budget. Abbreviation: ZBB.
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