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19-letter words containing c, i, n, e, a, g

  • significant figures — the figures of a number that express a magnitude to a specified degree of accuracy, rounding up or down the final figure
  • single edge contact — (hardware)   (SEC) The type of cartridge in which a Pentium II is packaged.
  • sissinghurst castle — a restored Elizabethan mansion near Cranbrook in Kent: noted for the gardens laid out in the 1930s by Victoria Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
  • slugging percentage — a number expressing a player's average effectiveness in making extra-base hits, calculated by dividing the total number of bases (from all singles, doubles, triples, and home runs) by the number of official at bats
  • smoking compartment — a compartment of a train where smoking is permitted
  • social intelligence — the ability to form rewarding relationships with other people
  • structural engineer — A structural engineer is an engineer who works on large structures such as roads, bridges, and large buildings.
  • subsistence farming — farming whose products are intended to provide for the basic needs of the farmer, with little surplus for marketing.
  • 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.
  • 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 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 oceanic feeling — a term coined by Sigmund Freud to describe the feeling experienced by people who have religious faith
  • therapeutic cloning — the permitted creation of cloned human tissues for surgical transplant
  • 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 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 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
  • trifacial neuralgia — tic douloureux.
  • ultrahigh frequency — any frequency between 300 and 3000 megahertz. Abbreviation: UHF, uhf.
  • 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
  • unclassified degree — a degree that has not been given a grade because it is of a low standard
  • vaginal intercourse — intercourse involving insertion of the penis into the vagina
  • 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.
  • virginia-rail-fence — snake fence.
  • vocational guidance — the process of assisting a student to choose, prepare for, and enter an occupation for which he or she shows aptitude.
  • watch night service — a service held on the night of December 24, or of December 31
  • whispering campaign — the organized spreading of insinuations or rumors to destroy the reputation of a person, organization, etc.
  • wide-angle glaucoma — open-angle glaucoma. See under glaucoma.
  • within rocket range — able to be reached by rockets
  • young conservatives — the youth section of the United Kingdom Conservative Party until 1998
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