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

  • biological parent — a parent who has conceived (biological mother) or sired (biological father) rather than adopted a child and whose genes are therefore transmitted to the child.
  • black-box testing — functional testing
  • blocking antibody — Immunology. an antibody that partly combines with an antigen and interferes with cell-mediated immunity, thereby preventing an allergic reaction.
  • bluegrass country — region in central Ky. where there is much bluegrass
  • breakdown voltage — the minimum applied voltage that would cause a given insulator or electrode to break down.
  • brightening agent — a compound applied to a textile to increase its brightness by the conversion of ultraviolet radiation to visible (blue) light, used in detergents
  • brighton and hove — a city and unitary authority in S England, in East Sussex. Pop: 251 500 (2003 est). Area: 72 sq km (28 sq miles)
  • bring up the rear — to be at the back in a procession, race, etc
  • brokerage account — A brokerage account is an account with a broker where an investor can buy and sell and hold securities.
  • budgetary control — a system of managing a business by applying a financial value to each forecast activity. Actual performance is subsequently compared with the estimates
  • bushman's singlet — a sleeveless heavy black woollen singlet, used as working clothing by timber fellers
  • butterfly bandage — a butterfly-shaped strip of adhesive medical tape used, when stitches are not required, to keep a deep cut or incision tightly closed while it heals
  • cage zone melting — zone melting of a square bar of the material to be purified, done so that the impurities are concentrated at the corners.
  • calcium gluconate — a white, tasteless, water-soluble powder, CaC 12 H 22 O 14 , used as a dietary supplement to provide calcium.
  • california nutmeg — a tall, pungently aromatic California evergreen tree, Torreya californica, of the yew family, having a fissured, gray-brown bark and small, purple-streaked, green fruit.
  • cantilever bridge — a bridge having spans that are constructed as cantilevers and often a suspended span or spans, each end of which rests on one end of a cantilever span
  • capital gains tax — a tax on the profit made from the sale of an asset
  • carbon offsetting — a program in which a company, country, etc., reduces or offsets its carbon emissions through the funding of activities and projects that improve the environment: Carbon offsetting does not always have a quantifiable impact on the planet.
  • caretaker manager — a person who temporarily holds the office of manager of a football club
  • carrying capacity — the maximum number of individuals that an area of land can support, usually determined by their food requirements
  • casting the runes — (jargon)   What a guru does when you ask him or her to run a particular program because it never works for anyone else; especially used when nobody can ever see what the guru is doing different from what J. Random Luser does. Compare incantation, runes, examining the entrails; also see the AI koan about Tom Knight.
  • categoric contact — behavior toward an individual on the basis of the type or group of people that person represents rather than on the basis of personal makeup.
  • cathedral ceiling — a high ceiling formed by or suggesting an open-timbered roof.
  • center of gravity — The center of gravity of an object is a point in it. If this point is above the base of the object, it stays stable, rather than falling over.
  • centre of gravity — The centre of gravity of an object is a point in it. If this point is above the base of the object, it stays stable, rather than falling over.
  • centrifugal brake — a safety mechanism on a hoist, crane, etc, that consists of revolving brake shoes that are driven outwards by centrifugal force into contact with a fixed brake drum when the rope drum revolves at excessive speed
  • centrifugal force — In physics, centrifugal force is the force that makes objects move outwards when they are spinning around something or travelling in a curve.
  • chacun a son gout — each to his own taste
  • change management — Change management is a style of management that aims to encourage organizations and individuals to deal effectively with the changes taking place in their work.
  • change one's tune — to alter one's attitude or tone of speech
  • change the sheets — If you change the sheets on a bed, you take the used sheets off the bed and put on different ones.
  • china grass cloth — grass cloth.
  • chincoteague pony — a wild pony found on certain islands off the Virginia coast, apparently descended from Moorish ponies shipwrecked in this vicinity in the 16th century.
  • choanoflagellates — Plural form of choanoflagellate.
  • christmas pudding — Christmas pudding is a special pudding that is eaten at Christmas.
  • chugach mountains — a coastal mountain range in S Alaska, extending W from the St. Elias Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Marcus Baker, 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
  • cigarette machine — a vending machine from which cigarettes can be purchased
  • circle the wagons — to take defensive action; prepare for an attack: from arranging a wagon train in a circular formation
  • circular triangle — a triangle in which each side is the arc of a circle
  • circumstantiating — Present participle of circumstantiate.
  • clang association — the association made between two words because they sound similar; for example cling and ring
  • clear box testing — white box testing
  • cleveland heights — city in NE Ohio: suburb of Cleveland: pop. 50,000
  • climbing accident — an accident occurring during climbing
  • clinicopathologic — of or relating to the combined study of disease symptoms and pathology.
  • closed-captioning — (of a television program, film, or video) distributed with synchronized transcription of speech and written descriptions of other relevant audio elements, as for the hearing-impaired, that are visible only when the option to display them is selected. Abbreviation: CC.
  • coarse-grain salt — salt with a much larger grain size than table salt
  • cognitive meaning — the literal meaning of something
  • cognitive therapy — a form of psychotherapy in which the patient is encouraged to change the way he or sees the world and himself or herself: used particularly to treat depression
  • collection agency — A collection agency is an organization that obtains payments from people who owe money to others.
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