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15-letter words containing a, n, g, u, l, r

  • family grouping — a system, used usually in the infant school, of grouping children of various ages together, esp for project work
  • flapping router — (networking)   A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
  • fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.
  • football ground — an area of land where football games are played
  • formal argument — (programming)   (Or "parameter") A name in a function or subroutine definition that is replaced by, or bound to, the corresponding actual argument when the function or subroutine is called. In many languages formal arguments behave like local variables which get initialised on entry. See: argument.
  • formal language — correct or polite words and phrases
  • franklin's gull — a black-headed North American gull, Larus pipixcan, feeding chiefly on insects.
  • gender equality — the state of having the same rights, status, and opportunities as others, regardless of one's gender.
  • general journal — A general journal is a journal recording all of the transactions of a business.
  • general studies — a school subject that includes a variety of skills and topics (such as comprehension, and current affairs, which may complement the study of A-levels in specific subjects)
  • general-purpose — useful in many ways; not limited in use or function: a good general-purpose dictionary.
  • gerald mulligan — Gerald Joseph ("Gerry"; "Jeru") 1927–96, U.S. jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer.
  • geranium family — the plant family Geraniaceae, typified by herbaceous plants or small shrubs having lobed leaves, showy flowers, and slender, beak-shaped fruit, and including the crane's-bills, stork's-bills, and cultivated geraniums of the genus Pelargonium.
  • giant sunflower — a composite plant, Helianthus giganteus, of eastern North America, growing nearly 12 feet (4 meters) high and having very large yellow flower heads.
  • glandular fever — infectious mononucleosis.
  • glucuronic acid — Biochemistry. an acid, C 6 H 10 O 7 , formed by the oxidation of glucose, found combined with other products of metabolism in the blood and urine.
  • glycuronic acid — glucuronic acid.
  • gram equivalent — the combining power, especially in grams (gram equivalent) of an element or compound, equivalent to hydrogen as a standard of 1.00797 or oxygen as a standard of 8; the atomic weight divided by the valence.
  • gram's solution — (sometimes lowercase) a solution of iodine, potassium iodide, and water, used in staining bacteria.
  • grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • granulitization — the process whereby metamorphism acts on a rock and reduces it to crystalline grains
  • graph colouring — (application)   A constraint-satisfaction problem often used as a test case in research, which also turns out to be equivalent to certain real-world problems (e.g. register allocation). Given a connected graph and a fixed number of colours, the problem is to assign a colour to each node, subject to the constraint that any two connected nodes cannot be assigned the same colour. This is an example of an NP-complete problem. See also four colour map theorem.
  • griqualand east — a former district in S South Africa, SW of Natal.
  • griqualand west — a former district in S South Africa, N of the Orange River and W of the Orange Free State: diamonds found 1867.
  • ground landlord — a landlord who receives ground rent.
  • guardian angels — an angel believed to protect a particular person, as from danger or error.
  • gulf of taranto — an inlet of the Ionian Sea, in Apulia in SE Italy
  • haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • industrialising — Present participle of industrialise.
  • industrializing — Present participle of industrialize.
  • inguinal hernia — a common type of hernia in which a loop of the intestine protrudes directly through a weak area of the abdominal wall in the groin region.
  • insuring clause — the clause in an insurance policy setting forth the kind and degree of coverage granted by the insurer.
  • journal bearing — a plain cylindrical bearing to support a shaft or axle
  • langres plateau — a calcareous plateau of E France north of Dijon between the Seine and the Saône, reaching over 580 m (1900 ft): forms a watershed between rivers flowing to the Mediterranean and to the English Channel
  • language lawyer — A person, usually an experienced or senior software engineer, who is intimately familiar with many or most of the numerous restrictions and features (both useful and esoteric) applicable to one or more computer programming languages. A language lawyer is distinguished by the ability to show you the five sentences scattered through a 200-page manual that together imply the answer to your question "if only you had thought to look there". Compare wizard, legal, legalese.
  • lantern gurnard — a type of gurnard
  • leakage current — A leakage current is an electric current in an unwanted conductive path under normal operating conditions.
  • leakage-current — an act of leaking; leak.
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • linear argument — (theory)   A function argument which is used exactly once by the function. If the argument is used at most once then it is safe to inline the function and replace the single occurrence of the formal parameter with the actual argument expression. If the argument was used more than once this transformation would duplicate the argument expression, causing it to be evaluated more than once. If the argument is sure to be used at least once then it is safe to evaluate it in advance (see strictness analysis) whereas if the argument was not used then this would waste work and might prevent the program from terminating.
  • linguistic area — a geographical area in which several languages sharing common features are spoken.
  • living quarters — accommodation
  • long-sufferance — long-suffering.
  • lubricating oil — an oily substance that is used to cover or treat machinery so as to lessen friction
  • luggage handler — someone whose job is to handle and direct luggage, esp at an airport
  • lung transplant — a medical operation in which the lungs are taken out of someone who has died and are placed into another person's body
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