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17-letter words containing a, n, g, i

  • take some beating — to be difficult to improve upon
  • tangential motion — 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 hospital — a hospital associated with a medical college and offering clinical and other facilities to those in various areas of medical study, as students, interns, and residents.
  • teaching practice — Teaching practice is a period that a student teacher spends teaching at a school as part of his or her training.
  • teaching software — computer software for use in providing online education
  • technical college — school of further and vocational education
  • technical drawing — the study and practice, esp as a subject taught in school, of the basic techniques of draughtsmanship, as employed in mechanical drawing, architecture, etc
  • telecommunicating — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
  • telephone banking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services, such as oral payment instructions, account movements, raising loans, etc, over the telephone rather than by personal visit
  • the morning after — the aftereffects of excess, esp a hangover
  • the neolithic age — the last part of the Stone Age, where metal tools became widespread
  • the night's a pup — it's early yet
  • thermocoagulation — the coagulation of tissue by heat-producing high-frequency electric currents, used therapeutically to remove small growths or to create specific lesions in the brain.
  • threshing machine — a machine for removing grains and seeds from straw and chaff.
  • thuringian forest — a forested mountain region in central Germany: a resort area.
  • tibetan highlands — Tibet, Plateau of.
  • to say nothing of — You use to say nothing of when you mention an additional thing which gives even more strength to the point you are making.
  • trading standards — consumer organization
  • traditional logic — formal logic based on syllogistic formulas, especially as developed by Aristotle.
  • trailing geranium — an ivy-leaved variety of geranium, Pelargonium peltatum
  • transignification — (in the Eucharist) a change in the significance of the bread and wine to symbolize the body and blood of Christ.
  • transition region — a thin and very irregular layer of the sun's atmosphere that separates the hot corona from the much cooler chromosphere.
  • transverse engine — an engine which is fitted side-to-side across the axis of a vehicle
  • travelling people — Gypsies or other itinerant people: a term used esp by such people of themselves
  • triangular matrix — a square matrix in which either all the entries above the principal diagonal, or all the entries below the principal diagonal, are zero.
  • trifoliate orange — a spiny, Chinese orange tree, Poncirus trifoliata, used as a stock in grafting and for hedges.
  • trigger mechanism — a physiological or psychological process caused by a stimulus and resulting in a usually severe reaction.
  • turbinado (sugar) — a partially refined, granulated, pale-brown sugar obtained by washing raw sugar in a centrifuge until most of the molasses is removed
  • ultimate strength — the quantity of the utmost tensile, compressive, or shearing stress that a given unit area of a certain material is expected to bear without failing.
  • undistinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • unimaginativeness — the quality of being unimaginative
  • unipalm group plc — (company)   A company floated in March 1994.
  • universal algebra — (logic)   The model theory of first-order equational logic.
  • universal grammar — a grammar that attempts to establish the properties and constraints common to all possible human languages.
  • unix brain damage — Something that has to be done to break a network program (typically a mailer) on a non-Unix system so that it will interoperate with Unix systems. The hack may qualify as "Unix brain damage" if the program conforms to published standards and the Unix program in question does not. Unix brain damage happens because it is much easier for other (minority) systems to change their ways to match non-conforming behaviour than it is to change all the hundreds of thousands of Unix systems out there. An example of Unix brain damage is a kluge in a mail server to recognise bare line feed (the Unix newline) as an equivalent form to the Internet standard newline, which is a carriage return followed by a line feed. Such things can make even a hardened jock weep.
  • unlawful wounding — an offence committed when a person maliciously wounds another person
  • urogenital system — the urinary tract and reproductive organs
  • user brain damage — (humour)   (UBD) A description (usually abbreviated) used to close a trouble report obviously due to utter cluelessness on the user's part. Compare pilot error; opposite: PBD; see also brain-damaged, PEBCAK.
  • utagawa kuniyoshi — original name Igusa Magosabwo. 1797–1861, Japanese painter and printmaker of the ukiyo-e school, best known for his prints of warriors and landscapes
  • vaginal discharge — emission from the female genitalia
  • vanity publishing — the practice of the author of a book paying all or most of the costs of its publication
  • vegetable tanning — the act or process of tanning hide by the infusion of plant extract.
  • vertical planning — the planning of education delivered in schools discussed between teachers of different classes or grades
  • vila nova de gaia — a city in NW Portugal.
  • village community — an early form of community organization in which land belonged to the village, the arable land being allotted to the members or households of the community by more or less permanent arrangements and the waste or excess land remaining undivided.
  • vinaigrette sauce — a tart sauce of oil, vinegar, and seasonings, sometimes including chopped capers, pickles, etc., usually served cold with salads.
  • visitation rights — the legal right granted to a divorced or separated parent to visit a child in the custody of the other parent.
  • vulcan death grip — (jargon)   A variant of Vulcan nerve pinch derived from a Star Trek classic epsisode where a non-existant "Vulcan death grip" was used to fool Romulans that Spock had killed Kirk.
  • wage differential — the difference in wages between workers with different skills in the same industry or between those with comparable skills in different industries or localities
  • wage negotiations — talks between workers and employers over rates of pay
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