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

  • bellybutton surgery — laparoscopy.
  • beta-naphthyl group — See under naphthyl.
  • big-leaved magnolia — evergreen magnolia.
  • bilingual education — schooling in which those not fluent in the standard or national language are taught in their own language.
  • binary large object — (database)   (BLOB) A large block of data stored in a database, such as an image or sound file. A BLOB has no structure which can be interpreted by the database management system but is known only by its size and location.
  • blowing your buffer — (jargon)   Losing your train of thought. A reference to buffer overflow.
  • blue-ringed octopus — a highly venomous octopus, Octopus maculosus, of E Australia which exhibits blue bands on its tentacles when disturbed
  • blue-tongued lizard — a large Australian lizard, Tiliqua scincoides, characterized by having a cobalt-blue tongue.
  • booker t washington — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
  • bordering countries — countries that share a border with a particular country
  • brazen law of wages — the doctrine or theory that wages tend toward a level sufficient only to maintain a subsistence standard of living.
  • bring into the open — to make evident or public
  • brown paper bag bug — (programming)   A programming bug that is so stupid that it makes the programmer want to put a brown paper bag over his head.
  • bulbourethral gland — Cowper's gland
  • business accounting — the keeping of detailed accounts relating to a business or businesses
  • buy a pig in a poke — to buy, get, or agree to something without sight or knowledge of it in advance
  • capacitive coupling — the connection of two or more circuits by means of a capacitor.
  • captains courageous — a novel (1897) by Rudyard Kipling.
  • carbon steel piping — Carbon steel piping is pipes made of steel with carbon as the main alloying component, used for transporting fluids.
  • carnot refrigerator — a device operating on the Carnot cycle in which the first temperature is higher than the second.
  • catalytic reforming — Catalytic reforming is a process that converts petroleum refinery naphthas to high-octane blending components.
  • category management — the management of a range of related products in a way designed to increase sales of all of the products
  • catherine of aragon — 1485–1536, first wife of Henry VIII of England and mother of Mary I. The annulment of Henry's marriage to her (1533) against papal authority marked an initial stage in the English Reformation
  • celestial longitude — the angular distance measured eastwards from the vernal equinox to the intersection of the ecliptic with the great circle passing through a celestial body and the poles of the ecliptic
  • champagne corks pop — If you say that champagne corks are popping, you mean that people are celebrating something.
  • champagne socialist — a professed socialist who enjoys an extravagant lifestyle
  • champion of england — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
  • character generator — a device used in television studios to incorporate text or other symbols into the television screen image.
  • chemical processing — Chemical processing is a way of making changes to chemical compounds.
  • chronological order — the arrangement of things following one after another in time: Put these documents in chronological order.
  • cinematographically — a motion-picture projector.
  • circulation manager — the senior manager responsible for the distribution of a newspaper
  • claims investigator — A claims investigator is a person who is employed by an insurance company to obtain information necessary to evaluate a claim.
  • clinical governance — a systematic approach to raising standards of health care and tackling poor performance in hospitals
  • coefficient of drag — the ratio of the drag on a body moving through air to the product of the velocity and surface area of the body.
  • common area charges — (in the US) charges paid by tenants for the maintenance of the common areas of a block of flats
  • common-law marriage — a marriage deemed to exist after a couple have cohabited for several years
  • community programme — (in Britain) a former government scheme to provide temporary work for people unemployed for over a year
  • competitive bidding — a system by which a contract is awarded to the lowest bidder
  • complementary angle — either of two angles whose sum is 90°
  • complete quadrangle — a plane figure consisting of four points connected by six lines
  • compression molding — a method of molding thermosetting plastic by closing a mold on it, forming the material by heat and pressure.
  • comptroller general — the director of the General Accounting Office
  • concours d'elegance — a parade of cars or other vehicles, prizes being awarded to the most elegant, best designed, or best turned-out
  • congestion charging — the practice of charging motorists for the right to drive on busy roads, esp at busy times
  • consultant engineer — an engineer who works as a consultant to a project or company
  • continental glacier — a glacier that spreads out from a central mass
  • continental seating — a theater seating plan in which there is no center aisle, but with wide spacing between each row of seats to allow for ease of passage.
  • contingency reserve — a sum of money set aside for use in an emergency or to cover unforeseen expenses
  • contour integration — integration in the complex plane about a closed curve of finite length.
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