15-letter words containing t, a, n, g
- drip irrigation — a system of crop irrigation involving the controlled delivery of water directly to individual plants through a network of tubes or pipes.
- dynamic routing — (networking) (Or "adaptive routing") Routing that adjusts automatically to network topology or traffic changes.
- east longmeadow — a city in SW Massachusetts.
- eating disorder — any of various disorders, as anorexia nervosa or bulimia, characterized by severe disturbances in eating habits.
- egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
- egyptian jasper — a type of jasper, generally with zones of colour, found in desert regions of Egypt
- eight-bit clean — (software) A term which describes a system that deals correctly with extended character sets which (unlike ASCII) use all eight bits of a byte. Many programs and communications systems assume that all characters have codes in the range 0 to 127. This leaves the top bit of each byte free for use as a parity bit or some kind of flag bit. These assumptions break down when the program is used in some non-english-speaking countries with larger alphabets. If a binary file is transmitted via a communications link which is not eight-bit clean, it will be corrupted. To combat this you can encode it with uuencode which uses only ASCII characters. There are some links however which are not even "seven-bit clean" and cause problems even for uuencoded data.
- electing a pope — (electronics, humour) (From the smoke signals given out when the guys in funny hats choose a new Pope) Causing an integrated circuit or other electronic component to emit smoke by passing too much current through it. See magic smoke.
- electromagnetic — Of or relating to the interrelation of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
- electronegative — Electrically negative.
- electronic game — any of various small handheld computerized games, usually battery-operated, having a small screen on which graphics are displayed and buttons to operate the game
- eleventh-grader — a student in the eleventh grade of high school
- emerging market — a financial or consumer market in a newly developing country or former communist country
- enamel painting — the art or process of decorating an object made of metal, porcelain, etc. using enamel paint
- engagement book — couple
- engagement ring — ring worn by bride-to-be
- engraving plate — a metal, usually steel, plate on which an image is engraved in order to be reproduced
- entomologically — In terms of entomology.
- ergatandromorph — an ant with the characteristics of both worker and male
- estates general — States-General (sense 1)
- estuary english — a variety of standard British English in which the pronunciation reflects various features characteristic of London and the Southeast of England
- everlastingness — The state or quality of being everlasting.
- exaggeratedness — the quality of being exaggerated
- exchangeability — The condition of being exchangeable.
- excommunicating — Present participle of excommunicate.
- exhibition game — In sports, an exhibition game is a game that is not part of a competition, and is played for entertainment or practice, often without any serious effort to win.
- export earnings — the earnings of a company or country that are generated through the export of goods or services
- external degree — a degree gained by a student who studies extramurally
- external galaxy — any galaxy beyond our own galaxy
- extralinguistic — Outside the realm of linguistics.
- extravagantness — The quality of being extravagant.
- factory farming — Factory farming is a system of farming which involves keeping animals indoors, often with very little space, and giving them special foods so that they grow more quickly or produce more eggs or milk.
- falling weather — wet weather, as rain or snow.
- fantasmagorical — Alternative form of phantasmagorical.
- feather banding — decorative banding of veneer or inlay having the grain laid diagonally to the grain of the principal surface.
- fetal diagnosis — prenatal determination of genetic or chemical abnormalities in a fetus, esp by amniocentesis
- fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
- fighting chance — a possibility of success following a struggle.
- figurate number — a number having the property that the same number of equally spaced dots can be arranged in the shape of a regular geometrical figure.
- file management — the work of organizing and arranging files in a computer
- filling station — service station (def 1).
- finger alphabet — a series of shapes made by the fingers that indicate letters of an alphabet and can be used in fingerspelling for the deaf
- finger painting — a jellylike paint, used chiefly by children in painting, usually with their fingers.
- fire-and-forget — used to describe a type of missile that, once fired, is able to guide itself to its target
- first gentleman — (often initial capital letters) the husband of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
- flag lieutenant — an admiral's ADC
- flapping router — (networking) A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
- flight of fancy — An idea or statement that is very imaginative but complicated, silly, or impractical can be referred to as a flight of fancy.
- flight sergeant — a noncommissioned officer in the Royal Air Force junior in rank to a master aircrew
- floating charge — an unsecured charge on the assets of an enterprise that allows such assets to be used commercially until the enterprise ceases to operate or the creditor intervenes to demand collateral