21-letter words containing u, r, g, e, n
- empire state building — New York City skyscraper
- equiangular hyperbola — a hyperbola with transverse and conjugate axes equal to each other.
- european space agency — an organization dedicated to space exploration with 18 European countries as members
- faculty board meeting — a meeting of the governing body of a faculty
- foreground processing — a type of processing that supports interaction between interactive and batch operations
- friuli-venezia giulia — a region in NE Italy: formerly part of Venezia Giulia, most of which was ceded to Yugoslavia (now Croatia and Slovenia) in 1947. 2947 sq. mi. (7630 sq. km).
- gastrohepatic omentum — lesser omentum.
- geiger-muller counter — an instrument for detecting ionizing radiations, consisting of a gas-filled tube in which electric-current pulses are produced when the gas is ionized by radiation, and of a device to register these pulses: used chiefly to measure radioactivity.
- general court-martial — a court-martial having the authority to try any offense against military law and to impose a sentence of dishonorable discharge or of death when provided by law.
- george bryan brummell — George Bryan II, Beau Brummell.
- get in under the wire — to accomplish something with little time to spare
- gird (up) one's loins — to get ready to do something difficult or strenuous
- give sb the runaround — If someone gives you the runaround, they deliberately do not give you all the information or help that you want, and send you to another person or place to get it.
- goldbach's conjecture — the conjecture that every even number greater than two is the sum of two prime numbers
- government securities — securities issued by the US Government
- great smoky mountains — the W part of the Appalachians, in W North Carolina and E Tennessee. Highest peak: Clingman's Dome, 2024 m (6642 ft)
- greater sunda islands — a group of islands in the W Malay Archipelago, forming the larger part of the Sunda Islands: consists of Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and Sulawesi
- ground-effect machine — ACV (def 2).
- guaranteed scheduling — (algorithm) A scheduling algorithm used in multitasking operating systems that guarantees fairness by monitoring the amount of CPU time spent by each user and allocating resources accordingly.
- heterogeneous network — (networking) A network running multiple network layer protocols such as DECnet, IP, IPX, XNS.
- higher-order function — (HOF) A function that can take one or more functions as argument and/or return a function as its value. E.g. map in (map f l) which returns the list of results of applying function f to each of the elements of list l. See also curried function.
- ibm customer engineer — (job) (CE) A hardware guy from IBM.
- in good circumstances — (of a person) in a good financial situation
- indigenous australian — another name for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
- instrumental learning — a method of training in which the reinforcement is made contingent on the occurrence of the response
- internal jugular vein — Anatomy. a jugular vein.
- intravenous drug user — a drug addict who injects drugs (esp heroin) intravenously
- joseph bonaparte gulf — an inlet of the Timor Sea in N Australia. Width: 360 km (225 miles)
- language-based editor — language-sensitive editor
- learning difficulties — difficulty experienced in reaching the average standard of people of the same age group as regards intellectual and cognitive skills and performance
- liquefied natural gas — a mixture of various gases, esp methane, liquefied under pressure for transportation and used as an engine fuel
- loch ness monster bug — (humour) (Or "Bugfoot") A bug which cannot be reproduced or has only been sighted by one person. Named after the mythical creature claimed to inhabit Loch Ness in Scotland.
- madagascar aquamarine — a form of blue beryl from Madagascar, used as a gemstone
- magnesium trisilicate — a white, fine, odorless and tasteless powder, Mg 2 O 8 Si 3 ⋅nH 2 O, used industrially to absorb odors and decolorize and pharmaceutically as an antacid.
- manufacturing process — chain of production
- mechanical metallurgy — the branch of metallurgy dealing with the response of metals to applied forces.
- mengistu haile mariam — born 1937, Ethiopian political leader: head of state 1977–87; president 1987–91.
- miniature photography — photography with a camera using film that is 35 millimeters wide or less.
- multi-level marketing — Multi-level marketing is a marketing technique which involves people buying a product, then earning a commission by selling it to their friends. The abbreviation MLM is also used.
- multi-ringed compound — A multi-ringed compound is a compound which has 70 or more carbon atoms, often a residual compound.
- narrow-angle glaucoma — Ophthalmology. angle-closure glaucoma. See under glaucoma.
- negotiable instrument — order or promise to pay money
- negotiable securities — securities that are legally transferable in title from one party to another
- new general catalogue — NGC.
- night-blooming cereus — any of various cacti of the genera Hylocereus, Peniocereus, Nyctocereus, or Selenicereus, having large, usually white flowers that open at night.
- north east new guinea — the NE part of the former Australian Territory of New Guinea; now part of Papua New Guinea.
- not care a hang about — to not care the least bit about
- packed encoding rules — (protocol, standard) (PER) ASN.1 encoding rules for producing a compact transfer syntax for data structures described in ASN.1, defined in 1994. PER provides a much more compact encoding then BER. It tries to represents the data units using the minimum number of bits. The compactness requires that the decoder knows the complete abstract syntax of the data structure to be decoded, however. Documents: ITU-T X.691, ISO 8825-2.
- plate glass insurance — Plate glass insurance is insurance coverage against damage to or breakage of large panes of glass such as shop windows.
- ploughman's spikenard — a European plant, Inula conyza, with tubular yellowish flower heads surrounded by purple bracts: family Asteraceae (composites)