14-letter words containing a, l, g, i, c, d
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- dragline crane — an excavating crane having a bucket that is dropped from a boom and dragged toward the crane base by a cable.
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
- dwelling place — a dwelling.
- exocrine gland — any gland, such as a salivary or sweat gland, that secretes its products through a duct onto an epithelial surface
- field guidance — a method of guiding a missile to a point within a gravitational or radio field by means of the properties of the field
- floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
- forced landing — aircraft: emergency descent
- galeopithecoid — of or resembling a flying lemur
- garlic mustard — a plant, Alliaria petiolata, of N temperate regions, with small white flowers and an odour of garlic: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- glacial period — Also called glacial period, ice age. the geologically recent Pleistocene Epoch, during which much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered by great ice sheets.
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- glycaemic load — an index indicating the amount of carbohydrate contained in a specified serving of a particular food. It is calculated by multiplying the food's glycaemic index by its carbohydrate content in grams and then dividing by 100
- glycosidically — In a glycosidic manner; by means of a glycoside.
- glyoxylic acid — a water-soluble crystalline compound, C 2 H 2 O 3 , that is an intermediate in photorespiration in plants.
- goncalves dias — Antonio [an-taw-nyoo] /ɛ̃ˈtɔ nyʊ/ (Show IPA), 1823–64, Brazilian poet.
- gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
- grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- high-card pool — red dog.
- highly charged — electrical
- hydrographical — Hydrographic.
- hydrologically — the science dealing with the occurrence, circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth and its atmosphere.
- indian grackle — a starling, Gracula religiosa, of S and SE Asia: a popular cage bird because of its ability to talk
- lacrimal gland — either of two tear-secreting glands situated in the upper outer angle of the orbit.
- landing beacon — a radio transmitter that emits a landing beam
- laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
- lattice girder — a trusslike girder having the upper and lower chords connected by latticing.
- legal medicine — the application of medical knowledge to questions of civil and criminal law, especially in court proceedings.
- load balancing — (operating system, parallel) Techniques which aim to spread tasks among the processors in a parallel processor to avoid some processors being idle while others have tasks queueing for execution. Load balancing may be performed either by heavily loaded processors (with many tasks in their queues) sending tasks to other processors; by idle processors requesting work from others; by some centralised task distribution mechanism; or some combination of these. Some systems allow tasks to be moved after they have started executing ("task migration") others do not. It is important that the overhead of executing the load balancing algorithm does not contribute significantly to the overall processing or communications load. Distributed scheduling algorithms may be static, dynamic or preemptive. Static algorithms allocate processes to processors at run time while taking no account of current network load. Dynamic algorithms are more flexible, though more computationally expensive, and give some consideration to the network load before allocating the new process to a processor. Preemptive algorithms are more expensive and flexible still, and may migrate running processes from one host to another if deemed beneficial. Research to date indicates that dynamic algorithms yield significant performance benefits, but that further (though lesser) gains may be had through the addition of process migration facilities.
- magnetic field — a region of space near a magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle in which a magnetic force acts on any other magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle.
- medigap policy — A Medigap policy is a private extra health insurance plan in the U.S. that provides coverage for medical expenses that are not or only partially covered by Medicare.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- methodological — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
- modelling clay — mouldable substance fixed in a kiln
- nonideological — Unaffiliated with or unrelated to ideology.
- paradigmatical — of or relating to a paradigm.
- parcel gilding — the gilding of only some areas or ornaments of a piece of furniture.
- radiographical — the production of radiographs.
- radiologically — of or relating to radiology.
- reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
- sandwich glass — any of various forms of glassware manufactured at Sandwich, Mass., from 1825 to c1890.
- scaling ladder — a ladder for climbing high walls.
- scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
- scribbling pad — a notebook or sketchbook
- social dancing — dancing performed by couples or by groups, usually as a form of recreation.
- social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
- straight-laced — strait-laced (sense 2)
- teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
- undogmatically — in an undogmatic manner
- vacuum molding — Vacuum molding is a type of molding in which pressure is applied by introducing a vacuum on the side of the mold.