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18-letter words containing ne

  • feather one's nest — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
  • fettuccine alfredo — fettuccine in cream sauce with grated Parmesan cheese.
  • filchner ice shelf — an ice barrier in Antarctica, in the SE Weddell Sea, bordered on the W by Berkner Island.
  • fill someone in on — to provide someone with additional facts, details, etc. about
  • fire and brimstone — When people talk about fire and brimstone, they are referring to hell and how they think people are punished there after death.
  • fire-and-brimstone — threatening punishment in the hereafter: a fire-and-brimstone sermon.
  • fitness instructor — physical trainer, exercise teacher
  • flat on one's back — lying supine
  • flat-panel display — a type of thin, lightweight video display that uses liquid crystals or electroluminescence to reflect images.
  • foreign-trade zone — free port (def 1).
  • forethoughtfulness — The condition of being forethoughtful.
  • fracture toughness — The fracture toughness of a material is how likely it is to resist fracture.
  • funeral procession — ceremonial cortège at a burial
  • gene amplification — an increase in the frequency of replication of a DNA segment.
  • general anesthesia — induced unconsciousness
  • general confession — a prayer confessing sins
  • general contractor — a person who contracts to construct a building or buildings, for a stipulated sum, in accordance with certain plans and specifications, or to remodel or build an addition to a building
  • general precession — the precession that results from both lunisolar precession and planetary precession; precession of the equinoxes.
  • general relativity — the state or fact of being relative.
  • general san martin — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
  • generating station — a power station
  • generative grammar — a linguistic theory that attempts to describe the tacit knowledge that a native speaker has of a language by establishing a set of explicit, formalized rules that specify or generate all the possible grammatical sentences of a language, while excluding all unacceptable sentences. Compare transformational grammar.
  • generic identifier — (language, text)   A string constituting the name of a element in an SGML document.
  • genetic algorithms — genetic algorithm
  • genetic counseling — the counseling of individuals with established or potential genetic problems, concerned with inheritance patterns and risks to future offspring.
  • geneva conventions — one of a series of international agreements, first made in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1864, establishing rules for the humane treatment of prisoners of war and of the sick, the wounded, and the dead in battle.
  • gentleman-commoner — (formerly) a member of a class of commoners enjoying special privileges at Oxford University.
  • germline insertion — the insertion of cloned genes into the egg or sperm cell of an organism, using a gene transfer technique, in order to perpetuate a desired trait in its descendants, as pest-resistance in a crop plant.
  • get it in the neck — the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
  • get off one's bike — to lose one's self-control
  • get on sb's nerves — irritate
  • get one's end away — to have sexual intercourse
  • get one's feet wet — to begin to participate in something
  • get one's irish up — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ireland, its inhabitants, or their language.
  • get one's own back — of, relating to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive): He spent only his own money.
  • get someone's goat — to cause annoyance to someone
  • give one's hand on — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • give someone a row — to scold someone; tell someone off
  • give someone curry — to assault (a person) verbally or physically
  • give someone pause — to make someone hesitant or uncertain
  • glomerulonephritis — a kidney disease affecting the capillaries of the glomeruli, characterized by albuminuria, edema, and hypertension.
  • gone with the wind — a novel (1936) by Margaret Mitchell.
  • gooseneck barnacle — goose barnacle
  • grasshopper engine — a steam engine having a piston attached to one end of a beam that is hinged to an upright at the other end, the connecting rod being suspended from near the center of the beam.
  • gray manganese ore — manganite.
  • great pastern bone — the part of the foot of a horse, cow, etc., between the fetlock and the hoof.
  • greater roadrunner — either of two large terrestrial cuckoos of the genus Geococcyx of arid regions of the western U.S., Mexico, and Central America, especially G. californianus (greater roadrunner)
  • gyromagnetic ratio — the ratio of the magnetic moment of a rotating charged particle to its angular momentum.
  • hand it to someone — to give credit to someone
  • harnessed antelope — any African antelope of the genus Tragelaphus, especially the bushbuck, having the body marked with white stripes and spots that resemble a harness, and, in the male, long, gently spiraling horns.
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