19-letter words containing i, n, t, r, g, a
- the varangian guard — the bodyguard of the Byzantine emperor in the late 10th and 11th centuries, consisting of Varangians
- therapeutic cloning — the permitted creation of cloned human tissues for surgical transplant
- thread-line fishing — spinning (def 3).
- three-point landing — an aircraft landing in which the two wheels of the main landing gear and the tail or nose wheel touch the ground simultaneously.
- thrust augmentation — an increase in the thrust of a jet or rocket engine, as by afterburning or reheating.
- time sharing option — (operating system) (TSO) System software from IBM that provides time-sharing on an IBM mainframe running in an MVS environment.
- 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 grin and bear it — If you grin and bear it, you accept a difficult or unpleasant situation without complaining because you know there is nothing you can do to make things better.
- 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 engineering — a branch of civil engineering concerned with the design and construction of streets and roads that will best facilitate traffic movement.
- 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
- traveling-wave tube — an electron tube used in microwave communications systems, having an electron beam directed coaxially through a wire helix to produce amplification.
- travelling expenses — expenses that are paid to someone, for example, by their employer, for the costs they need to travel
- travelling salesman — A travelling salesman is a salesman who travels to different places and meets people in order to sell goods or take orders.
- trentino-alto adige — a region in NE Italy. 870,238; 5256 sq. mi. (13.615 sq. km).
- triangle inequality — the theorem that the absolute value of the sum of two quantities is less than or equal to the sum of the absolute values of the quantities.
- triangulum australe — a small bright triangular constellation in the S hemisphere, lying between Ara and the Southern Cross, that contains an open star cluster
- trifacial neuralgia — tic douloureux.
- trinidad and tobago — (used with a plural verb) two islands in the N Atlantic Ocean, off the NE coast of Venezuela.
- turbo-ramjet engine — a combination engine that can be operated as a turbojet or ramjet engine.
- turn in their grave — If you say that someone who is dead would turn in their grave at something that is happening now, you mean that they would be very shocked or upset by it, if they were alive.
- ultrahigh frequency — any frequency between 300 and 3000 megahertz. Abbreviation: UHF, uhf.
- 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
- unorganized ferment — ferment (def 2).
- vaginal intercourse — intercourse involving insertion of the penis into the vagina
- wandering albatross — a large albatross, Diomedea exulans, of southern waters, having the plumage mostly white with dark markings on the upper parts.
- watch night service — a service held on the night of December 24, or of December 31
- waterglass painting — stereochromy.
- white-water rafting — White-water rafting is the activity of riding on a raft over rough, dangerous parts of a fast-flowing river.
- wild bleeding-heart — a plant, Dicentra eximia, of the fumitory family, native to the eastern coast of the U.S., having elongated clusters of drooping, heart-shaped rose-colored or pink flowers.
- within rocket range — able to be reached by rockets
- writing on the wall — writing done with a pen or pencil in the hand; script.
- young conservatives — the youth section of the United Kingdom Conservative Party until 1998
- zero-base budgeting — a process in government and corporate finance of justifying an overall budget or individual budgeted items each fiscal year or each review period rather than dealing only with proposed changes from a previous budget. Abbreviation: ZBB.