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16-letter words containing n, a, g

  • anglo-australian — belonging, relating to, or involving England and Australia, or the people of the two countries.
  • angostura (bark) — the bitter aromatic bark of either of two South American trees (Galipea officinalis or Cusparia trifoliata) of the rue family, used as a medicinal tonic and as a flavoring in bitters
  • angular diameter — the angle that the apparent diameter of a celestial object subtends at the eye of the observer.
  • angular momentum — a property of a mass or system of masses turning about some fixed point; it is conserved in the absence of the action of external forces
  • angular velocity — the velocity of a body rotating about a specified axis measured as the rate of change of the angle subtended at that axis by the path of the body
  • animal magnetism — the quality of being attractive, esp to members of the opposite sex
  • annular ligament — any of various ligaments that encircle a part, such as the wrist, ankle, or trachea
  • anopisthographic — a manuscript, parchment, or book having writing on only one side of the leaves.
  • antagonistically — acting in opposition; opposing, especially mutually.
  • anthropophagites — Plural form of anthropophagite.
  • anti-egalitarian — asserting, resulting from, or characterized by belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, economic, or social life.
  • anti-immigration — the act of immigrating.
  • anti-integration — an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.
  • anti-progressive — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
  • anti-segregation — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
  • antiangiogenesis — (medicine) The prevention of angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels.
  • antianxiety drug — any of various substances, as benzodiazepines, that are primarily used to treat various forms of anxiety and psychosomatic conditions.
  • anticholinergics — Plural form of anticholinergic.
  • anticyclogenesis — the intensification or development of an anticyclone.
  • antipornographic — Opposing pornography.
  • appliance garage — a kitchen compartment or cabinet designed for housing frequently used small electric appliances.
  • archaeomagnetism — an archaeological technique for dating certain clay objects by measuring the extent to which they have been magnetized by the earth's magnetic field
  • armchair banking — the management of one's bank account or accounts using a computer, telephone, or television in the home or via the postal system
  • as right as rain — If you say that someone is as right as rain, you mean that they are completely well or healthy again, for example when they have recovered from an illness or a shock.
  • ascending rhythm — rising rhythm.
  • asparaginic acid — aspartic acid.
  • asset management — the way in which the acquisition, use and disposal of the assets of an individual or a company are managed in order to maximize any profit they generate
  • assigned counsel — any private lawyer designated by a city or county court to represent indigent defendants in criminal cases at public expense.
  • assigned numbers — (standard)   The RFC STD 2 documenting the currently assigned values from several series of numbers used in network protocol implementations. This RFC is updated periodically and, in any case, current information can be obtained from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). If you are developing a protocol or application that will require the use of a link, socket, port, protocol, etc., you should contact the IANA to receive a number assignment.
  • astroengineering — (scifi) The construction of megastructures in space by technologically advanced beings.
  • at daggers drawn — If you say that two people are at daggers drawn, you mean they are having an argument and are still very angry with each other.
  • attorney general — A country's Attorney General is its chief law officer, who advises its government or ruler.
  • audience figures — the number of people regularly watching a television programme or listening to a radio programme
  • aung san suu kyi — born 1945, Burmese politician; cofounder (1988) and general secretary (1988–91 and from 1995) of the National League for Democracy: Nobel peace prize 1991; released (2010) from a lengthy house arrest; elected to the Burmese House of Representatives in 2012
  • aureate language — a style of poetic diction, used originally in 15th-century English poetry, characterized by the use of ornate phrases and Latinized coinages.
  • austro-hungarian — of or relating to the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary (1867–1918)
  • autoethnographic — Using ethnographic techniques to describe one's own life, or events in which one is a participant.
  • back-propagation — (Or "backpropagation") A learning algorithm for modifying a feed-forward neural network which minimises a continuous "error function" or "objective function." Back-propagation is a "gradient descent" method of training in that it uses gradient information to modify the network weights to decrease the value of the error function on subsequent tests of the inputs. Other gradient-based methods from numerical analysis can be used to train networks more efficiently. Back-propagation makes use of a mathematical trick when the network is simulated on a digital computer, yielding in just two traversals of the network (once forward, and once back) both the difference between the desired and actual output, and the derivatives of this difference with respect to the connection weights.
  • background check — an investigation into a person's origins and previous history
  • background music — music of any kind that is played while some other activity is going on, so that people do not actively attend to it
  • background noise — any type of noise that is not the sound that you are specifically listening to or monitoring
  • background paper — a report or other piece of writing that is intended to provide contextual and historical information that will help people understand a particular topic or situation
  • backward-looking — If you describe someone or something as backward-looking, you disapprove of their attitudes, ideas, or actions because they are based on old-fashioned opinions or methods.
  • baggage handling — the work of dealing with and sorting passengers' baggage at an airport
  • balloon mortgage — A balloon mortgage is a mortgage on which the repayments are relatively small until the large final payment.
  • ballroom dancing — Ballroom dancing is a type of dancing in which a man and a woman dance together using fixed sequences of steps and movements.
  • balsamic vinegar — Balsamic vinegar is a type of vinegar which tastes sweet and is made from grape juice.
  • bargain basement — If you refer to something as a bargain basement thing, you mean that it is cheap and not very good quality.
  • bargain-basement — very low-priced.
  • bargaining agent — an organization, usually a trade union, that acts or bargains on behalf of a group of employees in collective bargaining
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