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16-letter words containing e, n, g

  • antiangiogenesis — (medicine) The prevention of angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels.
  • antianxiety drug — any of various substances, as benzodiazepines, that are primarily used to treat various forms of anxiety and psychosomatic conditions.
  • anticholinergics — Plural form of anticholinergic.
  • anticyclogenesis — the intensification or development of an anticyclone.
  • appliance garage — a kitchen compartment or cabinet designed for housing frequently used small electric appliances.
  • archaeomagnetism — an archaeological technique for dating certain clay objects by measuring the extent to which they have been magnetized by the earth's magnetic field
  • ascending rhythm — rising rhythm.
  • asset management — the way in which the acquisition, use and disposal of the assets of an individual or a company are managed in order to maximize any profit they generate
  • assigned counsel — any private lawyer designated by a city or county court to represent indigent defendants in criminal cases at public expense.
  • assigned numbers — (standard)   The RFC STD 2 documenting the currently assigned values from several series of numbers used in network protocol implementations. This RFC is updated periodically and, in any case, current information can be obtained from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). If you are developing a protocol or application that will require the use of a link, socket, port, protocol, etc., you should contact the IANA to receive a number assignment.
  • astroengineering — (scifi) The construction of megastructures in space by technologically advanced beings.
  • at daggers drawn — If you say that two people are at daggers drawn, you mean they are having an argument and are still very angry with each other.
  • attorney general — A country's Attorney General is its chief law officer, who advises its government or ruler.
  • audience figures — the number of people regularly watching a television programme or listening to a radio programme
  • aureate language — a style of poetic diction, used originally in 15th-century English poetry, characterized by the use of ornate phrases and Latinized coinages.
  • autoethnographic — Using ethnographic techniques to describe one's own life, or events in which one is a participant.
  • background check — an investigation into a person's origins and previous history
  • background noise — any type of noise that is not the sound that you are specifically listening to or monitoring
  • background paper — a report or other piece of writing that is intended to provide contextual and historical information that will help people understand a particular topic or situation
  • baggage handling — the work of dealing with and sorting passengers' baggage at an airport
  • balloon mortgage — A balloon mortgage is a mortgage on which the repayments are relatively small until the large final payment.
  • balsamic vinegar — Balsamic vinegar is a type of vinegar which tastes sweet and is made from grape juice.
  • bargain basement — If you refer to something as a bargain basement thing, you mean that it is cheap and not very good quality.
  • bargain-basement — very low-priced.
  • bargaining agent — an organization, usually a trade union, that acts or bargains on behalf of a group of employees in collective bargaining
  • bargaining level — the level within an organizational hierarchy, such as company level, national level, etc, at which collective bargaining takes place
  • bargaining power — the ability of a person, group, or organization to exert influence over another party in a negotiation in order to achieve a deal which is favourable to themselves
  • bargaining scope — the range of topics within the scope of a particular set of negotiations leading to a collective agreement
  • bargaining table — a table around which the parties involved in a negotiation sit
  • batch processing — manufacturing products or treating materials in batches, by passing the output of one process to subsequent processes
  • bbn technologies — (company)   A company, originally known as Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. (BBN), based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. BBN were awarded the original contract to build the ARPANET and have been extensively involved in Internet development. They are responsible for managing NNSC, CSNET, and NEARnet. The language LOGO was developed at BBN, as was the BBN Butterfly supercomputer.
  • be rolling in it — If you say that someone is rolling in it or is rolling in money, you mean that they are very rich.
  • be the making of — to cause the success of
  • bearing pedestal — an independent support for a bearing, usually incorporating a bearing housing
  • bed-sitting room — a combined bedroom and sitting room serving as a one-room apartment
  • beef bourguignon — boeuf bourguignon
  • beefsteak fungus — an edible reddish bracket fungus, Fistulina hepatica, that grows esp on oak trees and oozes a bloodlike juice
  • beg the question — If you say that something begs a particular question, you mean that it makes people want to ask that question; some people consider that this use is incorrect.
  • belgian malinois — one of a Belgian breed of medium-sized dogs having a short coat, tan to dark brown in color, a black mask, and erect ears, bred originally as a sheepherding dog.
  • belgian sheepdog — any of a Belgian breed of large herding dog with a black coat, sometimes used as a guide dog
  • belgian tervuren — one of a Belgian breed of medium-sized dogs having a long, straight coat, fawn to mahogany in color, differing from the Belgian sheepdog only in color.
  • benguela current — a strong ocean current in the South Atlantic, flowing northward along the SW coast of Africa
  • bermuda triangle — an area in the Atlantic Ocean bounded by Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Florida where ships and aeroplanes are alleged to have disappeared mysteriously
  • bethmann hollweg — Theobald von (ˈteːobalt fɔn). 1856–1921, chancellor of Germany (1909–17)
  • bethmann-hollweg — Theobald von [tey-oh-bahlt fuh n] /ˈteɪ oʊˌbɑlt fən/ (Show IPA), 1856–1921, German statesman: chancellor 1909–17.
  • bill of exchange — (now chiefly in foreign transactions) a document, usually negotiable, containing an instruction to a third party to pay a stated sum of money at a designated future date or on demand
  • biotechnological — Biotechnological means relating to biotechnology.
  • bismarck herring — marinaded herring, served cold
  • bite your tongue — either of the two fleshy parts or folds forming the margins of the mouth and functioning in speech.
  • bitterroot range — range of the Rocky Mountains, along the Ida.-Mont. border: highest peak, c. 11,000 ft (3,353 m)
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