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19-letter words containing i, c, n, g, o, t

  • social anthropology — study of human culture
  • social intelligence — the ability to form rewarding relationships with other people
  • social organization — the structure of social relations within a group, usually the relations between its subgroups and institutions.
  • speeding conviction — a conviction for breaking the speed limit while driving a vehicle
  • split-second timing — timing that depends on minute precision
  • stick to one's guns — a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
  • swimming instructor — sb who teaches people to swim
  • tangential-velocity — the component of the linear motion of a star with respect to the sun, measured along a line perpendicular to its line of sight and expressed in miles or kilometers per second.
  • teaching fellowship — a fellowship providing a student in a graduate school with free tuition and expenses and stipulating that the student assume some teaching duties in return.
  • the finishing touch — If you add the finishing touches to something, you add or do the last things that are necessary to complete it.
  • the oceanic feeling — a term coined by Sigmund Freud to describe the feeling experienced by people who have religious faith
  • therapeutic cloning — the permitted creation of cloned human tissues for surgical transplant
  • to change your mind — If you change your mind, or if someone or something changes your mind, you change a decision you have made or an opinion that you had.
  • to go blackberrying — to go on an outing to collect blackberries
  • to ring the changes — If you say that someone rings the changes, you mean that they make changes or improvements to the way something is organized or done.
  • traffic regulations — rules designed to expedite the flow of traffic and prevent collisions
  • training instructor — a person who teaches people the skills they need for a particular field or profession
  • trooping the colour — a military ceremony, performed by regiments of the British army and the Commonwealth, in which the regimental colour or flag is marched past ranks of troops
  • ultrasonic cleaning — the use of ultrasound to vibrate a piece to be cleaned while the piece is immersed in a cleaning fluid. The process produces a very high degree of cleanliness, and is used for jewellery and ornately shaped items
  • vaginal intercourse — intercourse involving insertion of the penis into the vagina
  • vigilance committee — an unauthorized committee of citizens organized for the maintenance of order and the summary punishment of crime in the absence of regular or efficient courts.
  • vocational guidance — the process of assisting a student to choose, prepare for, and enter an occupation for which he or she shows aptitude.
  • white-winged scoter — a blackish North American duck, Melanitta deglandi, having a white patch on each wing.
  • with flying colours — If you pass a test with flying colours, you have done very well in the test.
  • within rocket range — able to be reached by rockets
  • young conservatives — the youth section of the United Kingdom Conservative Party until 1998
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