23-letter words containing e, c, g
- thompson submachine gun — a portable, .45-caliber, automatic weapon designed to be fired from the shoulder or hip.
- to change for the worse — If a situation changes for the worse, it becomes more unpleasant or more difficult.
- to clip someone's wings — If you say that something or someone clips your wings, you mean that they restrict your freedom to do what you want.
- to count your blessings — If you tell someone to count their blessings, you are saying that they should think about how lucky they are instead of complaining.
- to do intelligence work — to serve in the Intelligence Corps; to collect and analyze military information
- to get/put sb's back up — If someone or something puts your back up or gets your back up, they annoy you.
- to keep a straight face — If you manage to keep a straight face, you manage to look serious, although you want to laugh.
- to pluck up the courage — If you pluck up the courage to do something that you feel nervous about, you make an effort to be brave enough to do it.
- to send someone packing — If you send someone packing, you make them go away.
- topological equivalence — the property of two topological spaces such that there is a homeomorphism from one to the other.
- traffic-light labelling — a system of food labelling in which red, amber, and green symbols are used to indicate whether the food contains high, medium, or low amounts of sugar, fat, salt, etc
- transcendental argument — an argument designed to make explicit the conditions under which a certain kind of knowledge is possible, esp those of Kant
- trigonal trisoctahedron — a trisoctahedron whose faces are triangles.
- ulster defence regiment — a former reserve regiment of the British Army based in Northern Ireland
- unconditional discharge — the release of a defendant without having to spend time on parole or probation
- user interface language — (language, graphics) (UIL) A language for specifying widget hierarchies etc. in OSF/Motif and DECwindows.
- valera y alcala galiano — Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), 1824–1905, Spanish novelist, critic, diplomat, and statesman.
- voter registration card — a card that enables a person to register in order to vote
- you can't go home again — a novel (1940) by Thomas Wolfe.