19-letter words containing ent
- entitlement program — a government program providing defined sectors of the population with social benefits
- entry qualification — the qualifications and conditions required to join an organization, club, etc
- environmental audit — the systematic examination of an organization's interaction with the environment, to assess the success of its conservation or antipollution programme
- environmental lobby — a group of people who promote environmental issues to government, the public, and business
- european parliament — law: assembly in Strasbourg
- executive agreement — an agreement made between the US President and the head of a foreign state, having the effect of a treaty
- executive president — a president in certain systems of government who possesses wide powers
- experimenter effect — the influence of an experimenter's expectations on his results
- fertility treatment — the application of any of various methods or procedures to a woman or man to increase the woman's chances of conceiving a baby
- fifteenth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1870, prohibiting the restriction of voting rights “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”.
- financial statement — a document that records the financial activities and state of an organization or person
- fly in the ointment — Also called true fly. any of numerous two-winged insects of the order Diptera, especially of the family Muscidae, as the common housefly.
- framework agreement — an agreement that sets the limits and scope for further negotiation, discussion, etc
- freezer compartment — in a refrigerator, an enclosed area kept at a temperature low enough to store frozen foods or freeze non-frozen foods
- gas central heating — a system of central heating fuelled by combustible gas
- gastrocolic omentum — the peritoneal fold attached to the stomach and the colon and hanging over the small intestine.
- gastroenterocolitis — (medicine) inflammation of the stomach, small intestines, and colon.
- gastroenterological — Of or pertaining to gastroenterology.
- gedanken experiment — thought experiment.
- gender reassignment — the alteration, by surgery and hormone treatments, of a person's physical sex characteristics to approximate those of the opposite sex: Born male, she now lives as a woman but has no plans for a sex change.
- gentile da fabriano — 1370?–1427, Italian painter.
- gentleman-pensioner — (formerly) a gentleman-at-arms.
- geocentric parallax — the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer.
- geothermal gradient — the increase in temperature with increasing depth within the earth.
- go off at a tangent — If someone goes off at a tangent, they start saying or doing something that is not directly connected with what they were saying or doing before.
- go off on a tangent — If someone goes off on a tangent, they start saying or doing something that is not directly connected with what they were saying or doing before.
- government monopoly — the exclusive control of the market supply of a product or service by the government
- government-in-exile — a government temporarily moved to or formed in a foreign land by exiles who hope to establish that government in their native country after its liberation.
- gulf of carpentaria — a shallow inlet of the Arafura Sea, in N Australia between Arnhem Land and Cape York Peninsula
- hairdryer treatment — (esp in sport) the practice of shouting at someone at close quarters in order to express one's displeasure at something he or she has done
- hanging indentation — a style of text-setting in which the first line of a paragraph is set to the full measure and subsequent lines are indented at the left-hand side
- highways department — the department of a state, council, etc, responsible for the upkeep of roads and highways
- holiday entitlement — the number of days of paid holiday in a year that a worker is entitled to take
- holy innocents' day — December 28, a day of religious observance commemorating the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem by Herod's order.
- housing development — a group of houses or apartments, usually of the same size and design, often erected on a tract of land by one builder and controlled by one management.
- identification card — a card giving identifying data about a person, as full name, address, age, and color of hair and eyes, and often containing a photograph: for use as identification at a place of employment, school, club, etc.
- identification mark — barcode or serial number
- incidental expenses — costs outside those budgeted
- inconsequentialness — The quality or state of being inconsequential.
- incremental plotter — a device that plots graphs on paper from computer-generated instructions
- industrial accident — an accident that happens to an employee of an industrial company during the course of their work
- informal settlement — a squatter camp
- information content — the amount of information in something
- instrumentalisation — (philosophy) The treatment of an idea as an instrument that functions as a guide to action.
- instrumentalization — Alternative spelling of instrumentalisation.
- intentional fallacy — (in literary criticism) an assertion that the intended meaning of the author is not the only or most important meaning; a fallacy involving an assessment of a literary work based on the author's intended meaning rather than on actual response to the work.
- interdepartmentally — involving or existing between two or more departments: interdepartmental rivalry.
- interpretive centre — (at a place of interest, such as a country park, historical site, etc) a building or group of buildings that provides interpretation of the place of interest through a variety of media, such as video displays and exhibitions of material, and, often, includes facilities such as refreshment rooms and gift shops
- investment compound — investment (def 11).
- judgment by default — a judgment in the plaintiff's favour when the defendant fails to plead or to appear