15-letter words containing b, a, d, g
- diffrangibility — the power or capability of being diffracted
- disambiguations — Plural form of disambiguation.
- disembarrassing — Present participle of disembarrass.
- disestablishing — Present participle of disestablish.
- distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- distinguishably — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- dog's breakfast — a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.
- double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
- double negation — the principle that a statement is equivalent to the denial of its negation, as it is not the case that John is not here meaning John is here
- double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.
- doubting thomas — a person who refuses to believe without proof; skeptic. John 20:24–29.
- dynamic binding — The property of object-oriented programming languages where the code executed to perform a given operation is determined at run time from the class of the operand(s) (the receiver of the message). There may be several different classes of objects which can receive a given message. An expression may denote an object which may have more than one possible class and that class can only be determined at run time. New classes may be created that can receive a particular message, without changing (or recompiling) the code which sends the message. An class may be created that can receive any set of existing messages. One important reason for having dynamic binding is that it provides a mechanism for selecting between alternatives which is arguably more robust than explicit selection by conditionals or pattern matching. When a new subclass is added, or an existing subclass changes, the necessary modifications are localised: you don't have incomplete conditionals and broken patterns scattered all over the program. See overloading.
- embalming fluid — a liquid used to treat a dead body, which contains preservatives to retard putrefaction
- examining board — an organization that sets and corrects exams
- feather banding — decorative banding of veneer or inlay having the grain laid diagonally to the grain of the principal surface.
- football ground — an area of land where football games are played
- gambier islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean, in French Polynesia. Chief settlement: Rikitéa. Pop: 1097 (2002). Area: 30 sq km (11 sq miles)
- garboard strake — the first strake on each side of a keel.
- gaudier-brzeska — Henri (ɑ̃ri), original name Henri Gaudier. 1891–1915, French vorticist sculptor
- gibraltar board — a type of lining board with a cardboard surface and a gypsum core
- gilbert islands — a group of islands in the W Pacific: with Banaba, the Phoenix Islands, and three of the Line Islands they constitute the independent state of Kiribati; until 1975 they formed part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands; achieved full independence in 1979. Pop: 82 902 (2005). Area: 295 sq km (114 sq miles)
- gingerbread man — biscuit in the shape of a man
- gladbach-rheydt — a former city in W Germany; now part of Mönchengladbach.
- globus pallidus — anatomy: part of the brain
- go by the board — If something goes by the board, it is rejected or ignored, or is no longer possible.
- great barracuda — a large barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda, of Atlantic and western Pacific seas.
- ground-breaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
- guaranteed bond — a bond issued by a corporation in which payment of the principal, interest, or both is guaranteed by another corporation.
- guns and butter — a symbol for the economic policy of a government insofar as spending is allocated for either military or social purposes
- hard-boiled egg — egg boiled until the yolk is set
- have got it bad — to be infatuated
- horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
- humpback bridge — arched bridge
- hydrobiological — of or relating to hydrobiology
- it's a good job — If you say it's a good thing, or in British English it's a good job, that something is the case, you mean that it is fortunate.
- knowledge-based — characterized by the dominance of information services as an area of growth
- langue de boeuf — ox-tongue partisan.
- lapland bunting — a passerine bird: Calcarius lapponicus
- leaf-footed bug — any of numerous plant-sucking or predaceous bugs of the family Coreidae, typically having leaflike legs: several species are pests of food crops.
- lending library — Also called circulating library, rental library. a small library that is maintained by a commercial establishment, as a drugstore, and is composed largely of current books that are lent to customers for a fee.
- library binding — a tough, durable cloth binding for books. Compare edition binding.
- mackinac bridge — a suspension bridge over the Straits of Mackinac, connecting the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan: one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. 3800-foot (1158-meter) center span; 7400 feet (2256 meters) in total length.
- make a big deal — If someone makes a big deal out of something, they make a fuss about it or treat it as if it were very important.
- malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
- marburg disease — a viral disease producing a severe and often fatal illness with fever, rash, diarrhea, vomiting, and gastrointestinal bleeding, transmitted to humans through contact with infected green monkeys.
- meibomian gland — any of the small sebaceous glands in the eyelid, beneath the conjunctiva
- monchengladbach — a city in W North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany.
- nation-building — Journalists sometimes use nation-building to refer to government policies that are designed to create a strong sense of national identity.
- obsidian dating — a method of dating obsidian artifacts or debitage by calculating how long it has taken to produce a given thickness of a hydration layer within such matter.