19-letter words containing gra
- gray-cheeked thrush — a North American thrush, Catharus minimus, having olive upper parts and grayish cheeks.
- great-grandchildren — a grandchild of one's son or daughter.
- great-granddaughter — a granddaughter of one's son or daughter.
- historiographically — In a historiographical manner; by means of a historiography.
- hysterosalpingogram — An X-ray image taken during hysterosalpingography.
- immigration control — a method or methods for regulating border laws and immigration
- immigration officer — official administrating incoming foreigners
- indefinite integral — a representation, usually in symbolic form, of any function whose derivative is a given function.
- instant photography — photography using an instant camera.
- integration testing — (testing) A type of testing in which software and/or hardware components are combined and tested to confirm that they interact according to their requirements. Integration testing can continue progressively until the entire system has been integrated.
- japanese lawn grass — an Asiatic creeping grass, Zoysia japonica, used especially in the southeastern U.S., having purplish spikelets and rootstalks that send up numerous tough, wiry shoots.
- kirlian photography — a photographic process that supposedly records electrical discharges naturally emanating from living objects, producing an auralike glow surrounding the object on a photographic plate or film with which the object is in direct contact.
- lagrangian function — kinetic potential.
- photodisintegration — the disintegration of a nucleus, induced by its absorption of a photon.
- photographic memory — total recall
- pilgrimage of grace — a rebellion in 1536 in N England against the Reformation and Henry VIII's government
- pneumoencephalogram — an encephalogram made after the replacement of the cerebrospinal fluid by air or gas, rarely used since the development of the CAT scanner.
- political geography — the branch of human geography that deals with the relationship between political processes and spatial structures (regions, territories, etc)
- programmed learning — a progressively monitored, step-by-step teaching method, employing small units of information or learning material and frequent testing, whereby the student must complete or pass one stage before moving on to the next.
- programmer's switch — (hardware) A button on the front of some Apple Macintosh computers which, when pressed, causes a command line prompt to appear. This gives access to the built-in mini-debugger, which has commands to dump memory, return to the application that was broken out, and others. A more sophisticated debugger must be installed in order to inspect breakpoints, etc.
- pseudo-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
- radiochromatography — chromatography in which radiolabeled substances on the chromatogram are determined quantitatively or qualitatively by measuring their radioactivity.
- rio grande do norte — a state in E Brazil. 20,464 sq. mi. (53,000 sq. km). Capital: Natal.
- self-aggrandizement — increase of one's own power, wealth, etc., usually aggressively.
- self-congratulating — the expression or feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's own accomplishment, good fortune, etc.; complacency.
- self-congratulation — the expression or feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's own accomplishment, good fortune, etc.; complacency.
- self-congratulatory — the expression or feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's own accomplishment, good fortune, etc.; complacency.
- squirrel-tail grass — any of various grasses having long fruiting stalks.
- st. augustine grass — a low, mat-forming grass, Stenotaphrum secundatum, of the southern U.S. and tropical America, that is cultivated as a lawn grass.
- street photographer — a paparazzo
- 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.
- the bluegrass state — Kentucky
- the grapes of wrath — a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck.
- turn in their grave — If you say that someone who is dead would turn in their grave at something that is happening now, you mean that they would be very shocked or upset by it, if they were alive.
- typographical error — an error in printed or typewritten matter resulting from striking the improper key of a keyboard, from mechanical failure, or the like.
- wireless telegraphy — Now Rare. radiotelegraphy.