19-letter words containing a, o, l

functional language — (language) A language that supports and encourages functional programming.
functional medicine — individualized medical care that recognizes the interactions between genetic and environmental factors and between the body's interconnected systems.
gain on translation — A gain on translation is the amount of money that is made by a company by converting another currency used in a transaction into the functional currency of the company.
galactic coordinate — Usually, galactic coordinates. a member of a system of coordinates that define the position of a celestial body with reference to the Milky Way.
gallipoli peninsula — peninsula in S European Turkey, forming the NW shore of the Dardanelles: c. 55 mi (89 km) long
gastrocolic omentum — the peritoneal fold attached to the stomach and the colon and hanging over the small intestine.
gastroenterocolitis — (medicine) inflammation of the stomach, small intestines, and colon.
gastroenterological — Of or pertaining to gastroenterology.
general of the army — the highest ranking military officer; the next rank above general.
general post office — (in the U.S. postal system) the main post office of a city, county, etc., that also has branch post offices. Abbreviation: G.P.O., GPO.
generic array logic — (hardware, integrated circuit) (GAL) A newer kind of Programmable Array Logic based on EEPROM storage cells, been pioneered by Lattice. GALs can be erased and reprogrammed and usually replace a whole set of different PALs (hence the name).
geneva nomenclature — an internationally accepted system for naming organic carbon compounds.
gentile da fabriano — 1370?–1427, Italian painter.
gentleman-pensioner — (formerly) a gentleman-at-arms.
geocentric parallax — the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer.
geothermal gradient — the increase in temperature with increasing depth within the earth.
geraldton waxflower — an evergreen shrub, Chamelaucium uncinatum, native to W Australia, cultivated for its pale pink flowers
gestational carrier — surrogate mother (def 3).
giant silkworm moth — any silkworm moth of the family Saturniidae.
giovanni da bologna — Giovanni da [jee-uh-vah-nee duh;; Italian jaw-vahn-nee dah] /ˌdʒi əˈvɑ ni də;; Italian dʒɔˈvɑn ni dɑ/ (Show IPA), (Jean de Boulogne; Giambologna) c1525–1608, Italian sculptor, born in France.
giovanni da fiesole — Giovanni da [Italian jaw-vahn-nee dah] /Italian dʒɔˈvɑn ni dɑ/ (Show IPA), Angelico, Fra.
glottalic airstream — a current of air in the pharynx produced by the action of the glottis.
glottochronological — Of or pertaining to glottochronology.
go (on a) walkabout — If a king, queen, or other important person goes walkabout or goes on a walkabout, he or she walks through crowds in a public place in order to meet people in an informal way.
go into liquidation — to close one's business by collecting assets and settling all debts
go jump in the lake — a body of fresh or salt water of considerable size, surrounded by land.
go off at half-cock — to fail as a result of inadequate preparation or premature starting
go to great lengths — If you say that someone goes to great lengths to achieve something, you mean that they try very hard and perhaps do extreme things in order to achieve it.
gold-rimmed glasses — spectacles with gold-coloured frames
goldbach conjecture — an unproved theorem that every even integer greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two prime numbers.
golden lion tamarin — a monkey, Leontopithecus rosalia rosalia, of tropical rain forests of southeastern Brazil, having a silky golden coat and a long golden mane: threatened with extinction.
goodwill ambassador — an ambassador who shows goodwill to another country, organization, etc, on behalf of his or her own country, organization, etc
grand duke nicholas — of Cusa [kyoo-zuh] /ˈkyu zə/ (Show IPA), 1401–1464, German cardinal, mathematician, and philosopher. German Nikolaus von Cusa.
grandfather's clock — a pendulum floor clock having a case as tall as or taller than a person; tall-case clock; long-case clock.
grandmother's clock — a pendulum clock similar to a grandfather's clock but shorter.
granuloma inguinale — a venereal disease marked by deep ulceration of the skin of the groin and external genitals, caused by the bacterium Calymmatobacterium granulomatis.
grasshopper warbler — a Eurasian warbler Locustella naevia
gravitational field — the attractive effect, considered as extending throughout space, of matter on other matter.
great wall of china — a system of fortified walls with a roadway along the top, constructed as a defense for China against the nomads of the regions that are now Mongolia and Manchuria: completed in the 3rd century b.c., but later repeatedly modified and rebuilt. 2000 miles (3220 km) long.
gregorian telescope — a telescope similar in design to the Cassegrainian telescope but less widely used.
ground-plane aerial — a quarter-wave vertical dipole aerial in which the electrical image forming the other quarter-wave section is formed by reflection in a system of radially disposed metal rods or in a conductive sheet
guillaume de lorris — 13th-century French poet who wrote the first 4058 lines of the allegorical romance, the Roman de la rose, continued by Jean de Meung
gulf of carpentaria — a shallow inlet of the Arafura Sea, in N Australia between Arnhem Land and Cape York Peninsula
gulf of tehuantepec — an inlet of the Pacific on the south coast of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in S Mexico
hamiltonian problem — (computability) (Or "Hamilton's problem") A problem in graph theory posed by William Hamilton: given a graph, is there a path through the graph which visits each vertex precisely once (a "Hamiltonian path")? Is there a Hamiltonian path which ends up where it started (a "Hamiltonian cycle" or "Hamiltonian tour")? Hamilton's problem is NP-complete. It has numerous applications, sometimes completely unexpected, in computing.
handlebar moustache — a man's moustache having long, curved ends that resemble the handlebars of a bicycle.
hang on the lips of — to listen to with close attention
hatfield-mccoy feud — a blood feud between two mountain clans on the West Virginia–Kentucky border, the Hatfields of West Virginia and the McCoys of Kentucky, that grew out of their being on opposite sides during the Civil War and was especially violent during 1880–90.
haul over the coals — a black or dark-brown combustible mineral substance consisting of carbonized vegetable matter, used as a fuel. Compare anthracite, bituminous coal, lignite.
haute vulgarisation — vulgarization, or popularization, on a higher level, esp. as done by academics, scholars, etc.

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