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18-letter words containing g, e, n, t, o

  • the damage is done — If you say 'the damage is done', you mean that it is too late now to prevent the harmful effects of something that has already happened.
  • the electronic age — the electronic age began when electronic equipment, including computers came into use
  • the grand national — an annual steeplechase run at Aintree, Liverpool, since 1839
  • 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 nether regions — the genitals
  • 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.
  • there's no telling — You use there's no telling to introduce a statement when you want to say that it is impossible to know what will happen in a situation.
  • thermogalvanometer — a thermoammeter for measuring small currents, consisting of a thermocouple connected to a direct-current galvanometer.
  • thin on the ground — If people or things of a particular kind are thin on the ground, there are very few of them.
  • thought experiment — Physics. a demonstration or calculation that is based on the postulates of a theory, as relativity, and that demonstrates or clarifies the consequences of the postulates.
  • tighten one's belt — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
  • to be above ground — to be alive
  • to get wind of sth — If you get wind of something, you hear about it, especially when someone else did not want you to know about it.
  • 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.
  • torsion-free group — a group in which every element other than the identity has infinite order.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • tune someone grief — to annoy or harass someone
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
  • veterinary surgeon — Chiefly British. a veterinarian.
  • vigoureux printing — a printing method in which worsted fibers are printed with the desired color while in sliver form and then processed into yarn, producing a mixed color in the spun yarn and woven fabric.
  • 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.
  • visiting professor — a professor from another institution invited to teach at a university or college for a limited period, usually for a semester or one academic year.
  • 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
  • westinghouse brake — a railroad air brake operated by compressed air.
  • wood-burning stove — cooker: fueled by wood
  • working hypothesis — See under hypothesis (def 1).
  • wrangell mountains — a mountain range in SE Alaska, extending into the Yukon, Canada. Highest peak: Mount Blackburn, 5037 m (16 523 ft)
  • young conservative — a member of the youth section of the United Kingdom Conservative Party
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