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18-letter words containing g, e, n, a

  • the electronic age — the electronic age began when electronic equipment, including computers came into use
  • the general public — the people in a society; people in general
  • the grand national — an annual steeplechase run at Aintree, Liverpool, since 1839
  • the hunger marches — a number of processions by unemployed workers in the 1930s to protest against unemployment and deprivation
  • the intelligentsia — the educated or intellectual people in a society or community
  • the magnolia state — a nickname referring to Mississippi
  • the major rogation — April 25, observed by Christians as a day of solemn supplication for the harvest and marked by processions, special prayers, and blessing of the crops
  • the passenger seat — the seat used by a passenger of a car, beside the driver
  • there you go again — Phrases such as there you go again are used to show annoyance at someone who is repeating something that has annoyed you in the past.
  • thermogalvanometer — a thermoammeter for measuring small currents, consisting of a thermocouple connected to a direct-current galvanometer.
  • third man argument — (in the philosophy of Aristotle) the argument against the existence of Platonic Forms that since the Form of Man is itself a perfect man, a further form (the "third" man) would be required to explain this, and so ad infinitum
  • three-day eventing — participation in a three day equestrian competition consisting of dressage, cross-country jumping, and stadium jumping
  • to be above ground — to be alive
  • to one's advantage — If you use or turn something to your advantage, you use it in order to benefit from it, especially when it might be expected to harm or damage you.
  • to scrape a living — If you say that someone scrapes a living or scratches a living, you mean that they manage to earn enough to live on, but it is very difficult. In American English, you say they scrape out a living or scratch out a living.
  • to take the plunge — If you take the plunge, you decide to do something that you consider difficult or risky.
  • touch-in-goal line — either of the two touchlines at each end of the field between the goal line and the dead-ball line.
  • transcendental ego — (in Kantian epistemology) that part of the self that is the subject and never the object.
  • transfer passenger — a traveller who changes from one plane, train, or bus to another, or to another form of transport
  • translation agency — an organization that provide people to translate speech or writing into a different language
  • transporter bridge — a bridge for carrying passengers and vehicles by means of a platform suspended from a trolley.
  • traveling salesman — a male representative of a business firm who travels in an assigned territory soliciting orders for a company's products or services.
  • travelling library — a mobile library in which a vehicle such as a van delivers books to be borrowed
  • treaty obligations — obligations or duties that must be carried out by a party as according to a treaty they have entered into
  • treaty of waitangi — a treaty signed in 1840 by Māori chiefs and a representative of the British Government, providing the basis for the British annexation of New Zealand
  • triangle of forces — a triangle whose sides represent the magnitudes and directions of three forces whose resultant is zero and which are therefore in equilibrium
  • trickle irrigation — drip irrigation.
  • two-minute warning — a time-out called by an official to notify both teams that two minutes remain in a half.
  • two-tier financing — a form of lending in which the debt is divided into two separate parts, as in a first and second mortgage held by an individual on a single property
  • ultrasonic testing — the scanning of material with an ultrasonic beam, during which reflections from faults in the material can be detected: a powerful nondestructive test method
  • ultrasonic welding — the use of high-energy vibration of ultrasonic frequency to produce a weld between two components which are held in close contact
  • under the aegis of — guided or protected by
  • under-registration — the act of registering.
  • unilateral neglect — a symptom of brain damage in which a person is unaware of one side of his or her body and of anything in the external world on the same side
  • unit magnetic pole — the unit of magnetic pole strength equal to the strength of a magnetic pole that repels a similar pole with a force of one dyne, the two poles being placed in a vacuum and separated by a distance of one centimeter.
  • universal coupling — a coupling between rotating shafts set at an angle to one another, allowing for rotation in three planes.
  • universal debugger — (tool, parallel)   (udb) KSR's interactive source level debugger for serial and parallel programs written in KSR, Fortran, KSR C and KSR1 assembly language. Udb is a source level debugger for testing and debugging serial and parallel programs; it is compatible with GDB and dbx. The user can direct udb either by typing commands or graphically through an X-based window interface; the latter provides simultaneous display of source code, I/O and instructions. For parallel programs, operations can be carried out per-thread.
  • universal language — an auxiliary language that is used and understood everywhere.
  • universal negative — a proposition of the form “No S is P.” Symbol: E, e.
  • universal suffrage — suffrage for all persons over a certain age, usually 18 or 21, who in other respects satisfy the requirements established by law.
  • unpledged delegate — (in the US) a delegate at a national party convention who is free to vote for any candidate
  • urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
  • urgent care center — a clinic outside of a hospital that provides medical care and services to people with urgent but not serious medical problems: urgent care centers as alternatives to emergency rooms. Abbreviation: UCC.
  • veterinary surgeon — Chiefly British. a veterinarian.
  • virginia snakeroot — any of various plants whose roots have been regarded as a remedy for snakebites, as the herb Aristolochia serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot) having a medicinal rhizome and rootlets, and the white-flowered Polygala senega (Seneca snakeroot) having a medicinal root.
  • vosges (mountains) — mountain range in NE France, west of the Rhine: highest peak, c. 4,700 ft (1,433 m)
  • voter registration — the requirement of citizens to become registered in order to vote
  • wage determination — the process of setting wage rates or establishing wage structures in particular situations
  • wandering minstrel — travelling performer
  • welwyn garden city — a town in SE England, in Hertfordshire: established (1920) as a planned industrial and residential community. Pop: 43 512 (2001)
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