15-letter words containing g, a, n, e, t
- insulating tape — adhesive tape, impregnated with a moisture-repelling substance, used to insulate exposed electrical conductors
- insurance agent — sb who sells insurance policies
- integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
- integrationists — Plural form of integrationist.
- interchangeable — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
- interchangeably — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
- interchangement — the act of interchanging
- intercollegiate — taking place between or participating in activities between different colleges: intercollegiate athletics.
- interdigitation — An interlinking that resembles the fingers of two hands being locked together.
- intergeneration — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
- interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
- internal energy — a function of thermodynamic variables, as temperature, that represents the internal state of a system that is due to the energies of the molecular constituents of the system. The change in internal energy during a process is equal to the net heat entering the system minus the net work done by the system. Symbol: U.
- interphalangeal — Between phalanges, as with an interphalangeal joint.
- interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
- interrogatingly — So as to interrogate; with urgent or bullying questioning.
- interrogational — the act of interrogating; questioning.
- interrogatively — In an interrogative manner; by means of a question.
- interrogatories — conveying or expressing a question; interrogative.
- intertanglement — the state or condition of being intertangled
- interval signal — a characteristic snatch of music, chimes, etc, transmitted as an identifying signal by a radio station between programme items
- intransigeantly — intransigently
- intransigentism — the policy or set of principles of an intransigent
- intransigentist — an intransigent
- inunderstanding — (obsolete) Devoid of understanding.
- investigational — Of, or relating to investigating, or to an investigation.
- ipod generation — members of the generation of adults born after 1970, who are less financially secure than their parents, due to student debt, high house prices, and job insecurity
- italian sausage — salami
- job enlargement — a widening of the range of tasks performed by an employee in order to provide variety in the activities undertaken
- joint agreement — a formal decision about future action which is made by two or more countries, groups, or people
- junggrammatiker — a group of linguists of the late 19th century who held that phonetic laws are universally valid and allow of no exceptions; neo-grammarians.
- kindergarteners — a child who attends a kindergarten.
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- knight banneret — banneret1 (def 2).
- knight errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
- knight-errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
- label switching — (networking) A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
- lactovegetarian — Also called lactarian. a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products.
- lake tanganyika — a lake in central Africa between Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo, bordering also on Burundi and Zambia, in the Great Rift Valley: the longest freshwater lake in the world. Area: 32 893 sq km (12 700 sq miles). Length: 676 km (420 miles)
- lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
- laminated glass — Laminated glass is safety glass in which a transparent plastic film is placed between plates of glass.
- langres plateau — a calcareous plateau of E France north of Dijon between the Seine and the Saône, reaching over 580 m (1900 ft): forms a watershed between rivers flowing to the Mediterranean and to the English Channel
- langston hughes — Charles Evans, 1862–1948, U.S. jurist and statesman: chief justice of the U.S. 1930–41.
- lantern gurnard — a type of gurnard
- large intestine — intestine (def 3).
- laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
- laryngotracheal — of, relating to, or involving the larynx and trachea.
- las vegas night — an evening of casino-style gambling, usually sponsored by a charitable, religious, or other fund-raising organization.
- latent learning — learning mediated neither by reward nor by the expectation of reward
- leading article — Also called leader. the most important or prominent news story in a newspaper.
- leading strings — strings or straps formerly used to guide and support a young child learning to walk