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17-letter words containing t, o, p, g

  • counter-espionage — Counter-espionage is the same as counter-intelligence.
  • counterpropaganda — propaganda to offset or nullify unfriendly or enemy propaganda.
  • creeping eruption — a skin eruption with intense itching, caused by the burrowing of various larvae under the skin
  • cryptoclimatology — See under microclimatology.
  • cryptographically — In a cryptographic manner; using cryptography; for cryptographic purposes.
  • cut a poor figure — to appear or behave badly
  • dephlogisticating — Present participle of dephlogisticate.
  • development grant — a grant awarded, esp by a government, to a person or company in order to fund the development of a new product
  • dialect geography — linguistic geography
  • digital audiotape — a cassette containing magnetic tape used for high-fidelity digital recording or playback of audio. Abbreviation: DAT.
  • digital footprint — one's unique set of digital activities, actions, and communications that leave a data trace on the Internet or on a computer or other digital device and can identify the particular user or device: Our online browsing habits are part of our passive digital footprint, created without our consent or knowledge, but our active digital footprint, especially on social media, can more easily be managed. Compare footprint (def 4).
  • down the plughole — If you say that something has gone down the plughole, you mean that it has failed or has been lost or wasted.
  • drilling platform — a structure, either fixed to the sea bed or mobile, which supports the machinery and equipment (the drilling rig), together with the stores, required for digging an offshore oil well
  • ectopic pregnancy — the development of a fertilized ovum outside the uterus, as in a Fallopian tube.
  • election campaign — efforts to promote party or candidate to voters
  • electromyographic — Using electromyography.
  • electrophysiology — The branch of physiology that deals with the electrical phenomena associated with nervous and other bodily activity.
  • employment agency — company: finds jobs
  • enlarged prostate — disorder of male reproductive gland
  • epistemologically — In a manner that pertains to epistemology.
  • ethnopharmacology — The scientific study correlating ethnic groups, their health, and how it relates to their physical habits and methodology in creating and using medicines.
  • falling diphthong — a diphthong in which the first of the two apparent vocalic elements is of greater stress or sonority and the second is of lesser stress or sonority, as in (ī), (ou), (oi), etc.
  • fingerling potato — a finger-shaped potato
  • fingertip control — control exercised through your fingertips, e.g. by touching a touchscreen
  • fitness programme — a plan to help someone improve their health and physical condition
  • flash photography — photography using a momentary flash of artificial light as a source of illumination.
  • flight of capital — When people lose confidence in a particular economy or market and withdraw their investment from it, you can refer to a flight of capital from that economy or market.
  • garage proprietor — a person who owns a commercial establishment in which motor vehicles are repaired, serviced, bought, and sold
  • garden heliotrope — the common valerian, Valeriana officinalis, especially when cultivated as an ornamental.
  • gas chromatograph — a chromatograph used for the separation of volatile substances.
  • get one's back up — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • get one's wind up — to become (or be) nervous or alarmed
  • give up the ghost — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
  • glove compartment — a compartment in the dashboard of an automobile for storing small items.
  • go back to the pa — to abandon city life in favour of rural life
  • go on the rampage — If people go on the rampage, they rush about in a wild or violent way, causing damage or destruction.
  • go to ... expense — If you go to the expense of doing something, you do something which costs a lot of money. If you go to great expense to do something, you spend a lot of money in order to achieve it.
  • go-faster stripes — (jargon)   chrome. Mainstream in some parts of UK.
  • gold export point — an exchange rate at which it is as cheap to settle international accounts by exporting gold bullion as by buying bills of exchange
  • gold import point — an exchange rate at which it is as cheap to settle international accounts by importing gold bullion as by selling bills of exchange
  • golf ball printer — IBM 2741
  • graduated pension — the money that an employee receives after retirement if they have paid into the graduated pension scheme
  • greater spearwort — a Eurasian ranunculaceous plant, Ranunculus lingua, which grows in wet places and has long narrow leaves and yellow flowers
  • gunboat diplomacy — diplomatic relations involving the use or threat of military force, especially by a powerful nation against a weaker one.
  • gupta corporation — (company)   The vendor of SQLWindows. Gupta Corporation provides application development and deployment software for client-server applications, consisting of a relational database, application development tools and transparent connectivity software. Gupta employs 400 people in 15 offices worldwide, including the United States, Europe and Asia. Gupta's 1993 fiscal year income was $5.6 million and their revenue was $56.1 million. Gupta sells client-server system components for networks of personal computers. Address: 1060 Marsh Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. Telephone: +1 (415) 321 9500. Fax: +1 (415) 321 5471.
  • gustavus adolphus — (Gustavus Adolphus) 1778–1837, king of Sweden 1792–1809 (son of Gustavus III).
  • gustavus-adolphus — (Gustavus Adolphus) 1778–1837, king of Sweden 1792–1809 (son of Gustavus III).
  • haemoglobinopathy — (medicine) Any of a group of inherited disorders in which haemoglobin does not function properly.
  • henry of portugal — ("the Navigator") 1394–1460, prince of Portugal: sponsor of geographic explorations.
  • hermaphrodite rig — jackass rig.
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