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18-letter words containing t, a, n, g, e, i

  • secretarial agency — a recruiting business which deals with jobs for secretaries
  • security agreement — business: contract
  • self-deprecatingly — in a self-deprecating manner
  • self-disparagement — the act of disparaging.
  • self-glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
  • self-gratification — the act of pleasing or satisfying oneself, especially the gratifying of one's own impulses, needs, or desires.
  • self-incriminating — serving to incriminate oneself or to expose oneself to prosecution: self-incriminating testimony.
  • self-interrogation — the act of interrogating; questioning.
  • self-tapping screw — a screw designed to tap its corresponding female thread as it is driven.
  • self-understanding — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • sesto san giovanni — a city in Lombardy, N Italy: a suburb of Milan.
  • shape-note singing — a traditional style of a capella singing using shape-note notation.
  • shipping container — a large, strong container, usually of metal, used to store goods in during shipment
  • shunting operation — an operation in which rail coaches are manoeuvred
  • sign of the zodiac — one of the twelve constellations along the path of the ecliptic.
  • ski-mountaineering — a combination of the sports of skiing and mountaineering, for example by climbing up a mountain then skiing down it
  • snake in the grass — a treacherous person, especially one who feigns friendship.
  • societal marketing — marketing that takes into account society's long-term welfare
  • sociotechnological — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of social and technological factors.
  • soft touch sealing — Soft touch sealing is a copolymer seal for a tank, with characteristics designed for softness, used instead of a metal seal to help avoid fire when sparks are generated.
  • solid-fuel heating — heating that uses solid fuel, such as coal or coke
  • something to spare — a surplus of something
  • spaghetti junction — an interchange, usually between motorways, in which there are a large number of underpasses and overpasses and intersecting roads used by a large volume of high-speed traffic
  • specimen signature — a signature to be compared to an original signature in order to verify someone's identity
  • spherical triangle — a triangle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
  • standing committee — a permanent committee, as of a legislature, society, etc., intended to consider all matters pertaining to a designated subject.
  • station management — (networking)   (SMT) Station Management One of the 4 key FDDI component layers. SMT is an overlay function that handles the management of the FDDI ring. It handles neighbor identification, fault detection and reconfiguration, insertion and de-insertion from the ring, and traffic statistics monitoring.
  • stepping-off place — jumping-off place (def 2).
  • stinking chamomile — mayweed.
  • strait of magellan — a strait between the mainland of S South America and Tierra del Fuego, linking the S Pacific with the S Atlantic. Length: 600 km (370 miles). Width: up to 32 km (20 miles)
  • strathclyde region — a former local government region in W Scotland: formed in 1975 from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Buteshire, Dunbartonshire, and parts of Argyllshire, Ayrshire, and Stirlingshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Glasgow, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Argyll and Bute, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
  • strong interaction — the interaction between gluons and between gluons and quarks that is responsible for the strong force.
  • super giant slalom — a slalom race in which the course is longer and has more widely spaced gates than in a giant slalom.
  • supporting actress — an actress playing a supporting role
  • swarm intelligence — the collective behaviour of a group of animals, esp social insects such as ants, bees, and termites, that are each following very basic rules
  • swedish gymnastics — a system of passive and active exercising of muscles and joints
  • sweptwing aircraft — an aircraft which has wings that are swept (usually) backwards
  • sympathetic string — a thin wire string, as in various obsolete musical instruments, designed to vibrate sympathetically with the bowed or plucked strings to reinforce the sound.
  • system-programming — a program, as an operating system, compiler, or utility program, that controls some aspect of the operation of a computer (opposed to application program).
  • take cognizance of — note, acknowledge
  • teaching assistant — a graduate student in a college or university who is the recipient of a teaching fellowship. Abbreviation: TA.
  • teaching equipment — teaching aids
  • technical sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking below a master sergeant and above a staff sergeant.
  • tender loving care — considerate and kindly care, as of someone who is ill, upset, etc
  • the damage is done — If you say 'the damage is done', you mean that it is too late now to prevent the harmful effects of something that has already happened.
  • the electronic age — the electronic age began when electronic equipment, including computers came into use
  • the general public — the people in a society; people in general
  • the grand national — an annual steeplechase run at Aintree, Liverpool, since 1839
  • the intelligentsia — the educated or intellectual people in a society or community
  • the magnolia state — a nickname referring to Mississippi
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