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15-letter words containing t, a, g

  • astronavigation — celestial navigation
  • astrophotograph — a photograph of the heavenly bodies
  • at arm's length — If you hold something at arm's length, you hold it away from your body with your arm straight.
  • at first glance — If you say that something is true or seems to be true at first glance, you mean that it seems to be true when you first see it or think about it, but that your first impression may be wrong.
  • at right angles — If two things are at right angles, they are situated so that they form an angle of 90° where they touch each other. You can also say that one thing is at right angles to another.
  • at sb's bidding — If you do something at someone's bidding, you do it because they have asked you to do it.
  • audience rating — a figure based on statistical sampling indicating what proportion of the total listening and viewing audience tune in to a specific programme or network
  • auditor general — (in Canada) a federal official responsible for auditing government departments and making an annual report
  • augmented roman — a writing system based on an expanded English alphabet, consisting of 43 characters representing different phonemes of spoken English, used for teaching beginners to read. Abbreviation: I.T.A., i.t.a.
  • augmented sixth — an interval greater than a major sixth by a chromatic half step.
  • augusta emerita — a market town in W Spain, in Extremadura, on the Guadiana River: founded in 25 bc; became the capital of Lusitania and one of the chief cities of Iberia. Pop: 52 110 (2003 est)
  • augusta gregory — Lady Augusta (Isabella Augusta Persse) 1852–1932, Irish dramatist.
  • augustus caesar — Also called Octavian (before 27 b.c.)(Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus; Augustus Caesar) 63 b.c.–a.d. 14, first Roman emperor 27 b.c.–a.d. 14: reformer, patron of arts and literature; heir and successor to Julius Caesar.
  • austria-hungary — the Dual Monarchy established in 1867, consisting of what are now Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and parts of Poland, Romania, Ukraine, and Italy. The empire was broken up after World War I
  • autobiographers — Plural form of autobiographer.
  • autobiographies — Plural form of autobiography.
  • autolithography — a lithographic technique by which the artist draws or traces with a brush and pen directly on a stone or plate.
  • autoradiographs — Plural form of autoradiograph.
  • autoradiography — the technique or process of making autoradiographs.
  • available light — the natural or usual light on a subject.
  • aviator glasses — sunglasses that look like goggles
  • back plastering — the introduction of partitions of lath and plaster between the inner and outer surfaces of a stud wall in order to improve the insulating properties of the wall.
  • back-scratching — a reciprocal exchange of favors, aid, or compliments
  • bacterial ghost — a bacterial cell that is emptied and filled artificially with another substance
  • bacteriological — Of or relating to bacteriology or bacteria.
  • bacteriophagous — Pertaining to the predation and consumption of bacterium.
  • bag on the side — An extension to an established hack that is supposed to add some functionality to the original. Usually derogatory, implying that the original was being overextended and should have been thrown away, and the new product is ugly, inelegant, or bloated. Also "to hang a bag on the side [of]". "C++? That's just a bag on the side of C." "They want me to hang a bag on the side of the accounting system."
  • baltic exchange — a group of companies, based in London, which engages in trading activities, esp chartering cargo vessels
  • bangtail muster — a roundup of cattle to be counted, each one having the hairs on its tail docked as it is counted
  • banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
  • banqueting hall — a large building or room used for feasts
  • bargain counter — a store counter on which goods are displayed for sale at reduced prices
  • bargain-hunting — the act of shopping for items sold at cheap, esp discounted, prices
  • bargaining unit — a specific group of employees who are covered by the same collective agreement or set of agreements and represented by the same bargaining agent or agents
  • barothermograph — an automatic instrument for recording pressure and temperature.
  • base technology — (company)   The company which developed and distributes Liana. E-mail: Jack Krupansky <[email protected]> (owner). Address: Base Technology, Attn: Jack Krupansky, 1500 Mass. Ave. NW #114 Washington, DC 2005, USA. 800-786-9505 Telephone: +1 800 876 9505.
  • bat-wing sleeve — formed, shaped, etc., like the wing of a bat.
  • bathing costume — A bathing costume is a piece of clothing that is worn for swimming, especially by women and girls.
  • bathing machine — a small hut, on wheels so that it could be pulled to the sea, used in the 18th and 19th centuries for bathers to change their clothes
  • bathing-machine — a small bathhouse on wheels formerly used as a dressing room and in which bathers could also be transported from the beach to the water.
  • bathythermogram — a record made by a bathythermograph.
  • battery charger — a device that can restore the charge to a battery, usually by means of electricity
  • battery farming — the activity of using batteries for raising poultry
  • batting average — in baseball, a figure expressing the average batting efficiency of a player or team, figured by dividing the number of base hits by the number of official at-bats
  • battleship gray — a subdued bluish gray.
  • bayonet fitting — a type of fastening in which a cylindrical member is inserted into a socket against spring pressure and turned so that pins on its side engage in slots in the socket
  • be raring to go — If you say that you are raring to go, you mean that you are very eager to start doing something.
  • beat generation — members of the generation that came to maturity in the 1950s, whose rejection of the social and political systems of the West was expressed through contempt for regular work, possessions, traditional dress, etc, and espousal of anarchism, communal living, drugs, etc
  • beat one's gums — to talk much and idly
  • bedtime reading — a book, magazine etc read at bedtime
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