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19-letter words containing g, e, o, t

  • market segmentation — the division of a market into identifiable groups, esp to improve the effectiveness of a marketing strategy
  • maximum maytag mode — (storage, humour)   (From the US brand of washing machine) What a washing machine or, by extension, any hard disk is in when it's being used so heavily that it's shaking like an old Maytag with an unbalanced load. If prolonged for any length of time, can lead to disks becoming walking drives.
  • medroxyprogesterone — a progesterone derivative, C 2 4 H 3 4 O 4 , used in the treatment of abnormal uterine bleeding and secondary amenorrhea, as a contraceptive of long duration, and in the treatment of certain cancers.
  • megabits per second — (unit)   (Mbps, Mb/s) Millions of bits per second. A unit of data rate. 1 Mb/s = 1,000,000 bits per second (not 1,048,576). E.g. Ethernet can carry 10 Mbps.
  • meningoencephalitic — Relating to meningoencephalitis.
  • meningoencephalitis — Inflammation of the membranes of the brain and the adjoining cerebral tissue.
  • metatarsophalangeal — (anatomy) Relating to the metatarsus and phalange.
  • micromesh stockings — stockings made from a material consisting of a fine mesh
  • midnight regulation — a rule or directive approved by the federal government near the end of a president’s term of office
  • military government — a government in defeated territory administered by the military commander of a conquering nation.
  • molecular biologist — a specialist in the study of biological phenomena at the molecular level
  • montezuma's revenge — traveler's diarrhea, especially as experienced by some visitors to Mexico.
  • motor generator set — A motor generator set is an alternating current motor that is attached to a generator.
  • moving spirit/force — The moving spirit or moving force behind something is the person or thing that caused it to start and to keep going, or that influenced people to take part in it.
  • napierian logarithm — natural logarithm.
  • national government — A national government is a government with members from more than one political party, especially one that is formed during a crisis.
  • negation by failure — An extralogical feature of Prolog and other logic programming languages in which failure of unification is treated as establishing the negation of a relation. For example, if Ronald Reagan is not in our database and we asked if he was an American, Prolog would answer "no".
  • negative income tax — a system of income subsidy through which persons having less than a certain annual income receive money from the government rather than pay taxes to it.
  • neighbourhood watch — a scheme under which members of a community agree together to take responsibility for keeping an eye on each other's property, as a way of preventing crime
  • nerve growth factor — a protein that promotes the growth, organization, and maintenance of sympathetic and some sensory nerve cells. Abbreviation: NGF.
  • neuropathologically — In a neuropathologic way.
  • new general catalog — a catalog of star clusters, galaxies, and other non-stellar objects, published in 1888
  • next door neighbour — a person who lives in the house, flat, etc, next to one's home
  • niagara-on-the-lake — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Ontario, at the mouth of the Niagara River, on the border between Canada and New York.
  • night-scented stock — a plant, Matthiola bicornis, of the genus Matthiola, of the Mediterranean region, cultivated for its brightly coloured flowers: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • no shrinking violet — If you say that someone is no shrinking violet, you mean that they are not at all shy.
  • no strings attached — without conditions
  • non-distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • nonproprietary drug — A nonproprietary drug is a generic drug that is essentially similar to a drug with a brand name.
  • northern hog sucker — black sucker.
  • not care/give a fig — If you say that someone doesn't care a fig or doesn't give a fig about something, you are emphasizing that they think it is unimportant or that they are not interested in it.
  • not for much longer — if something will not happen for much longer, it will soon stop happening
  • nothing of the kind — not that
  • nothing of the sort — not at all as described
  • noughts and crosses — tick-tack-toe (def 1).
  • noughts-and-crosses — tick-tack-toe (def 1).
  • nuits-saint-georges — a fine red wine produced near the town of Nuits-Saint-Georges in Burgundy
  • old english pattern — a spoon pattern having a stem curving backward at the end.
  • on the razor's edge — a sharp-edged instrument used especially for shaving the face or trimming the hair.
  • on-the-job training — apprenticeship, learning by doing
  • one of those things — something that cannot be avoided, helped, changed, etc.
  • open the floodgates — If events open the floodgates to something, they make it possible for that thing to happen much more often or much more seriously than before.
  • operational testing — (testing)   A US DoD term for testing performed by the end-user on software in its normal operating environment.
  • optimising compiler — (programming, tool)   compiler which attempts to analyse the code it produces and to produce more efficient code by performing program transformation such as branch elimination, partial evaluation, or peep-hole optimisation. Contrast pessimising compiler.
  • orange flower water — a distilled infusion of orange blossom, used in cakes, confectionery, etc
  • order of the garter — the highest order of British knighthood, instituted by Edward III about 1348.
  • orthopaedic surgeon — a surgeon specializing in the branch of surgery concerned with disorders of the spine and joints and the repair of deformities of these parts
  • orthopaedic surgery — surgery concerned with disorders of the spine and joints and the repair of deformities of these parts
  • outplacement agency — an agency that provides counselling and careers advice, esp to redundant executives, which is paid for by their previous employer
  • paleoanthropologist — the study of the origins and predecessors of the present human species, using fossils and other remains.
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