18-letter words containing a, b, i, g, l
- interchangeability — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
- invisible earnings — earnings from services provided rather than goods
- irregular variable — a variable star whose brightness variation is irregular.
- labeled bracketing — a representation of the constituent structure of a string, as a word or sentence, comparable to a tree diagram, in which each constituent is shown in brackets and given a subscript grammatical label, with each bracketed item corresponding to a node in a tree diagram.
- legislative branch — the branch of government having the power to make laws; the legislature.
- lingual titubation — stuttering or stammering
- logically possible — capable of being described without self-contradiction
- malpighian tubules — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
- noninterchangeable — That cannot be interchanged with another.
- optical brightener — an additive that dyes and brightens fabric or paper
- play silly buggers — to fool around and waste time
- point-bearing pile — a pile depending on the soil or rock beneath its foot for support.
- publicity campaign — an effort to convey information to the public
- publishing company — a firm which publishes books
- ragtag and bobtail — the riffraff; rabble: The ragtag and bobtail of every nation poured into the frontier in search of gold.
- range of stability — the angle to the perpendicular through which a vessel may be heeled without losing the ability to right itself.
- reggio di calabria — a seaport in S Italy, on the Strait of Messina: almost totally destroyed by an earthquake 1908.
- relational algebra — (database, theory) A family of algebra with a well-founded semantics used for modelling the data stored in relational databases, and defining queries on it. The main operations of the relational algebra are the set operations (such as union, intersection, and cartesian product), selection (keeping only some lines of a table) and the projection (keeping only some columns). The relational data model describes how the data is structured.
- richard p. gabriel — Richard Gabriel
- significant symbol — a verbal or nonverbal gesture, as a word or smile, that has acquired a conventionalized meaning.
- social bookmarking — the practice of saving bookmarked Web pages to a public website as a way to share the links with other Internet users: Social bookmarking is a tool that allows you to add tags and comments to your bookmarks.
- subliminal message — a message passed to the human mind without the mind being consciously aware of it, as, for example, in advertising
- submaxillary gland — submandibular gland.
- supraorbital ridge — browridge.
- the beautiful game — football
- the general public — the people in a society; people in general
- travelling library — a mobile library in which a vehicle such as a van delivers books to be borrowed
- treaty obligations — obligations or duties that must be carried out by a party as according to a treaty they have entered into
- universal debugger — (tool, parallel) (udb) KSR's interactive source level debugger for serial and parallel programs written in KSR, Fortran, KSR C and KSR1 assembly language. Udb is a source level debugger for testing and debugging serial and parallel programs; it is compatible with GDB and dbx. The user can direct udb either by typing commands or graphically through an X-based window interface; the latter provides simultaneous display of source code, I/O and instructions. For parallel programs, operations can be carried out per-thread.
- without obligation — In advertisements, if a product or a service is available without obligation, you do not have to pay for that product or service until you have tried it and are satisfied with it.