19-letter words containing t, i, d, n, g

postage and packing — the cost of packing and mailing an item bought by post
printing discussion — [XEROX PARC] A protracted, low-level, time-consuming, generally pointless discussion of something only peripherally interesting to all.
priority scheduling — (operating system) Processes scheduling in which the scheduler selects tasks to run based on their priority as opposed to, say, a simple round-robin. Priorities may be static or dynamic. Static priorities are assigned at the time of creation, while dynamic priorities are based on the processes' behaviour while in the system. For example, the scheduler may favour I/O-intensive tasks so that expensive requests can be issued as early as possible. A danger of priority scheduling is starvation, in which processes with lower priorities are not given the opportunity to run. In order to avoid starvation, in preemptive scheduling, the priority of a process is gradually reduced while it is running. Eventually, the priority of the running process will no longer be the highest, and the next process will start running. This method is called aging.
radiational cooling — the cooling of the earth's surface and adjacent air, primarily at night, caused by a loss of heat due to surface emission of infrared radiation.
rag-tag and bobtail — the riffraff; rabble: The ragtag and bobtail of every nation poured into the frontier in search of gold.
recording equipment — devices used for sound reproduction
recording secretary — an officer charged with keeping the minutes of meetings and responsible for the records.
religious education — religion as school subject
right-eyed flounder — any of several flatfishes of the family Pleuronectidae, having both eyes on the right side of the head.
rio grande do norte — a state in E Brazil. 20,464 sq. mi. (53,000 sq. km). Capital: Natal.
run into the ground — to do too long or too often; overdo
run-length encoding — A kind of compression algorithm which replaces sequences ("runs") of consecutive repeated characters (or other units of data) with a single character and the length of the run. This can either be applied to all input characters, including runs of length one, or a special character can be used to introduce a run-length encoded group. The longer and more frequent the runs are, the greater the compression that will be achieved. This technique is particularly useful for encoding black and white images where the data units would be single bit pixels.
sandwich generation — the generation of people still raising their children while having to care for their aging parents.
santiago del estero — a city in N Argentina.
screen actors guild — a labor union for motion-picture performers, founded in 1933. Abbreviation: SAG.
secondary picketing — the picketing by strikers of a place of work that supplies goods to or distributes goods from their employer
self-aggrandizement — increase of one's own power, wealth, etc., usually aggressively.
shipping department — a department in a company responsible for arranging, receiving, recording, and sending shipments of goods
single edge contact — (hardware) (SEC) The type of cartridge in which a Pentium II is packaged.
smite hip and thigh — to attack unsparingly; overwhelm with or as with blows
speeding conviction — a conviction for breaking the speed limit while driving a vehicle
spider-hunting wasp — any solitary wasp of the superfamily Pompiloidea, having a slender elongated body: the fast-running female hunts spiders as a food store for her larvae
split-second timing — timing that depends on minute precision
spotted wintergreen — an evergreen plant, Chimaphila maculata, of central North America, having leaves with mottled-white veins and white, fragrant flowers.
stand in good stead — the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute: The nephew of the queen came in her stead.
standing broad jump — a jump for distance from a standing position.
standing martingale — martingale (def 1).
straight and narrow — the way of virtuous or proper conduct: After his release from prison, he resolved to follow the straight and narrow.
straightforwardness — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
strangulated hernia — a hernia, especially of the intestine, that swells and constricts the blood supply of the herniated part, resulting in obstruction and gangrene.
stringed instrument — a musical instrument having strings as the medium of sound production, played with the fingers or with a plectrum or a bow: The guitar, the harp, and the violin are stringed instruments.
swedish nightingale — Jenny (Johanna Maria Lind Goldschmidt"The Swedish Nightingale") 1820–87, Swedish soprano.
sweetness and light — extreme or excessive pleasantness or amiability.
synthetic detergent — any synthetic substance, other than soap, that is an effective cleanser and functions equally well as a surface-active agent in hard or soft water.
take it for granted — If you take it for granted that something is the case, you believe that it is true or you accept it as normal without thinking about it.
talleyrand-perigord — Charles Maurice de [sharl moh-rees duh] /ʃarl moʊˈris də/ (Show IPA), Prince de Bénévent [duh bey-ney-vahn] /də beɪ neɪˈvɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1754–1838, French statesman.
tarnished plant bug — a bug, Lygus lineolaris, of the family Miridae, that is a common and widely distributed pest of alfalfa and other legumes and of peach and other fruit trees.
tender is the night — a novel (1934) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
terminating decimal — a decimal numeral in which, after a finite number of decimal places, all succeeding place values are 0, as ⅛ = 0.125 (contrasted with nonterminating decimal).
the golden triangle — an opium-producing area of SE Asia, comprising parts of Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand
the high and mighty — people who are considered very important
the underprivileged — those who are underprivileged
the varangian guard — the bodyguard of the Byzantine emperor in the late 10th and 11th centuries, consisting of Varangians
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.
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 do the drying-up — to dry dishes, cups, glasses, etc after they have been washed
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.
trentino-alto adige — a region in NE Italy. 870,238; 5256 sq. mi. (13.615 sq. km).
trinidad and tobago — (used with a plural verb) two islands in the N Atlantic Ocean, off the NE coast of Venezuela.

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