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19-letter words containing a, s, g, e

  • buildings insurance — insurance which covers buildings
  • business accounting — the keeping of detailed accounts relating to a business or businesses
  • cable-stayed bridge — a type of suspension bridge in which the supporting cables are connected directly to the bridge deck without the use of suspenders
  • camouflage passport — a passport from a non-existent country intended to conceal the bearer's true nationality (from hijackers, kidnappers, etc)
  • canterbury pilgrims — the pilgrims whose stories are told in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
  • captains courageous — a novel (1897) by Rudyard Kipling.
  • carbon steel piping — Carbon steel piping is pipes made of steel with carbon as the main alloying component, used for transporting fluids.
  • celestial longitude — the angular distance measured eastwards from the vernal equinox to the intersection of the ecliptic with the great circle passing through a celestial body and the poles of the ecliptic
  • centrifugal casting — casting that utilizes centrifugal force within a spinning mold to force the metal against the walls.
  • champagne corks pop — If you say that champagne corks are popping, you mean that people are celebrating something.
  • champagne lifestyle — a lifestyle involving the enjoyment of luxuries and expensive pleasures
  • champagne socialist — a professed socialist who enjoys an extravagant lifestyle
  • champigny-sur-marne — a suburb of Paris, on the River Marne. Pop: 75 556 (2006)
  • chargeable transfer — a transfer of value made as a gift during a person's lifetime that is not covered by a specific exemption and therefore gives rise to liability under inheritance tax
  • chemical processing — Chemical processing is a way of making changes to chemical compounds.
  • chinese finger trap — a child's toy, consisting of a small cylinder of woven straw or paper into which the forefingers are placed, one in each end: the harder one pulls, the more securely the fingers are held.
  • claims investigator — A claims investigator is a person who is employed by an insurance company to obtain information necessary to evaluate a claim.
  • common area charges — (in the US) charges paid by tenants for the maintenance of the common areas of a block of flats
  • concours d'elegance — a parade of cars or other vehicles, prizes being awarded to the most elegant, best designed, or best turned-out
  • congestion charging — the practice of charging motorists for the right to drive on busy roads, esp at busy times
  • consultant engineer — an engineer who works as a consultant to a project or company
  • continental seating — a theater seating plan in which there is no center aisle, but with wide spacing between each row of seats to allow for ease of passage.
  • contradistinguished — Simple past tense and past participle of contradistinguish.
  • contradistinguishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contradistinguish.
  • counter-advertising — the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, on billboards, etc.: to get more customers by advertising.
  • cox's orange pippin — a variety of eating apple with sweet flesh and a red-tinged green skin
  • cracked gas cooling — Cracked gas cooling is a process in which the temperature of a cracked gas is reduced in order to separate it into different product streams.
  • creeping bent grass — a grass, Agrostis stolonifera, grown as a pasture grass in Europe and North America: roots readily from the stem
  • creeping featuritis — (jargon)   /kree'ping fee'-chr-i:`t*s/ A variant of creeping featurism, with its own spoonerism: "feeping creaturitis". Some people like to reserve this form for the disease as it actually manifests in software or hardware, as opposed to the lurking general tendency in designers' minds. -ism means "condition" or "pursuit of", whereas -itis usually means "inflammation of".
  • crystallized ginger — sugar-coated ginger
  • cudgel one's brains — to think hard about a problem
  • customs regulations — the regulations relating to customs in a particular country
  • database management — the maintenance of information stored in a computer system
  • desargues's theorem — the theorem that if two triangles are so related that the lines joining corresponding vertices meet in a point, then the extended corresponding lines of the two triangles meet in three points, all on the same line.
  • descriptive grammar — an approach to grammar that is concerned with reporting the usage of native speakers without reference to proposed norms of correctness or advocacy of rules based on such norms.
  • design in real time — (programming)   (Dirt) A user interface builder for the X Window System by R. Hesketh.
  • dig one's own grave — If you say that someone is digging their own grave, you are warning them that they are doing something foolish or dangerous that will cause their own failure.
  • digital electronics — (electronics)   The implementation of two-valued logic using electronic logic gates such as and gates, or gates and flip-flops. In such circuits the logical values true and false are represented by two different voltages, e.g. 0V for false and +5V for true. Similarly, numbers are normally represented in binary using two different voltages to represented zero and one. Digital electronics contrasts with analogue electronics which represents continuously varying quantities like sound pressure using continuously varying voltages. Digital electronics is the foundation of modern computers and digital communications. Massively complex digital logic circuits with millions of gates can now be built onto a single integrated circuit such as a microprocessor and these circuits can perform millions of operations per second.
  • direct grant school — (in Britain, formerly) a school financed by endowment, fees, and a state grant conditional upon admittance of a percentage of nonpaying pupils nominated by the local education authority
  • disadvantageousness — The state or quality of being disadvantageous.
  • disambiguation page — a page on a website that lists various websites or web pages that have or could have the same title. The user is able to select from the list that page, site etc that he or she actually wants
  • displacement engine — any engine employing the rectilinear motion of one or more pistons in cylinders.
  • display advertising — display ads taken collectively.
  • distinguishableness — The state or quality of being distinguishable.
  • diversified farming — the practice of producing a variety of crops or animals, or both, on one farm, as distinguished from specializing in a single commodity.
  • electrocardiographs — Plural form of electrocardiograph.
  • electronegativities — Plural form of electronegativity.
  • electronic graphics — (on television) the production of graphic designs and text by electronic means
  • energy conservation — concerted formal or government action or policy to make sure that energy is not wasted
  • english toy spaniel — breed of dog
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