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

subsistence farming — farming whose products are intended to provide for the basic needs of the farmer, with little surplus for marketing.
sugar loaf mountain — a mountain in SE Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, at the entrance to Guanabara Bay. 1280 feet (390 meters).
sun-and-planet gear — a planetary epicyclic gear train.
supplementary angle — either of two angles that added together produce an angle of 180°.
suspensory ligament — any of several tissues that suspend certain organs or parts of the body, especially the transparent, delicate web of fibrous tissue that supports the crystalline lens.
swedish nightingale — Jenny (Johanna Maria Lind Goldschmidt"The Swedish Nightingale") 1820–87, Swedish soprano.
sweetness and light — extreme or excessive pleasantness or amiability.
take a running jump — a contemptuous expression of dismissal
take it for granted — If you take it for granted that something is the case, you believe that it is true or you accept it as normal without thinking about it.
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.
tarnished plant bug — a bug, Lygus lineolaris, of the family Miridae, that is a common and widely distributed pest of alfalfa and other legumes and of peach and other fruit trees.
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.
terminating decimal — a decimal numeral in which, after a finite number of decimal places, all succeeding place values are 0, as ⅛ = 0.125 (contrasted with nonterminating decimal).
the cultural cringe — subservience to overseas cultural standards
the evergreen state — Washington State
the genuine article — If you describe something as the genuine article, you are emphasizing that it is genuine, and often that it is very good.
the golden triangle — an opium-producing area of SE Asia, comprising parts of Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand
the great awakening — a movement of religious revival in the American Colonies from c. 1720 to the time of the Revolution
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 high and mighty — people who are considered very important
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
the varangian guard — the bodyguard of the Byzantine emperor in the late 10th and 11th centuries, consisting of Varangians
therapeutic cloning — the permitted creation of cloned human tissues for surgical transplant
thread-line fishing — spinning (def 3).
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.
threshold agreement — an agreement between an employer and employees or their union to increase wages by a specified sum if inflation exceeds a specified level in a specified time
through and through — in at one end, side, or surface and out at the other: to pass through a tunnel; We drove through Denver without stopping. Sun came through the window.
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 break new ground — If you break new ground, you do something completely different or you do something in a completely different way.
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 change your tune — If you say that someone has changed their tune, you are criticizing them because they have changed their opinion or way of doing things.
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 hang by a thread — If you say that something is hanging by a thread, you mean that it is in a very uncertain state and is unlikely to survive or succeed.
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.
to run the gauntlet — If you run the gauntlet, you go through an unpleasant experience in which a lot of people criticize or attack you.
traffic engineering — a branch of civil engineering concerned with the design and construction of streets and roads that will best facilitate traffic movement.
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
traveling-wave tube — an electron tube used in microwave communications systems, having an electron beam directed coaxially through a wire helix to produce amplification.
travelling expenses — expenses that are paid to someone, for example, by their employer, for the costs they need to travel
travelling salesman — A travelling salesman is a salesman who travels to different places and meets people in order to sell goods or take orders.
trentino-alto adige — a region in NE Italy. 870,238; 5256 sq. mi. (13.615 sq. km).
triangle inequality — the theorem that the absolute value of the sum of two quantities is less than or equal to the sum of the absolute values of the quantities.
triangulum australe — a small bright triangular constellation in the S hemisphere, lying between Ara and the Southern Cross, that contains an open star cluster
trifacial neuralgia — tic douloureux.

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