18-letter words containing a, n, g, l, o, c
- telephone exchange — a telecommunications facility to which subscribers' telephones connect, that switches calls among subscribers or to other exchanges for further routing.
- tender loving care — considerate and kindly care, as of someone who is ill, upset, etc
- the electronic age — the electronic age began when electronic equipment, including computers came into use
- to scrape a living — If you say that someone scrapes a living or scratches a living, you mean that they manage to earn enough to live on, but it is very difficult. In American English, you say they scrape out a living or scratch out a living.
- touch-in-goal line — either of the two touchlines at each end of the field between the goal line and the dead-ball line.
- transcendental ego — (in Kantian epistemology) that part of the self that is the subject and never the object.
- translation agency — an organization that provide people to translate speech or writing into a different language
- triangle of forces — a triangle whose sides represent the magnitudes and directions of three forces whose resultant is zero and which are therefore in equilibrium
- trickle irrigation — drip irrigation.
- ultrasonic testing — the scanning of material with an ultrasonic beam, during which reflections from faults in the material can be detected: a powerful nondestructive test method
- ultrasonic welding — the use of high-energy vibration of ultrasonic frequency to produce a weld between two components which are held in close contact
- unit magnetic pole — the unit of magnetic pole strength equal to the strength of a magnetic pole that repels a similar pole with a force of one dyne, the two poles being placed in a vacuum and separated by a distance of one centimeter.
- universal coupling — a coupling between rotating shafts set at an angle to one another, allowing for rotation in three planes.
- warning coloration — a bold, distinctive pattern of color characteristic of a poisonous or unpalatable organism, as the skunk or the monarch butterfly, that functions as a warning to and defense against predators.
- wheelchair housing — housing designed or adapted for a chairbound person