14-letter words containing d, a, n, g
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
- hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
- heartrendingly — In a heartrending manner.
- heavy hydrogen — either of the heavy isotopes of hydrogen, especially deuterium.
- heidelberg man — the primitive human being reconstructed from the Heidelberg jaw.
- height of land — a watershed
- highhandedness — The property of being highhanded.
- highland dress — the historical costume, including the plaid, kilt or filibeg, and bonnet, as worn by Highland clansmen and soldiers
- highland fling — fling (def 17).
- highland games — a meeting in which competitions in sport, piping, and dancing are held: originating in the Highlands of Scotland
- highly trained — that has received a lot of academic or physical training
- highs and lows — If you refer to the highs and lows of someone's life or career, you are referring to both the successful or happy times, and the unsuccessful or bad times.
- huffman coding — (algorithm) A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
- hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hyperthreading — (computing) A form of microprocessor parallelization where each physical processor is treated as two virtual processors.
- image-building — improving the brand image or public image of something or someone by good public relations, advertising, etc
- in a bad light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- in a good seam — doing well, esp financially
- in good season — early enough
- in this regard — on this point
- indian grackle — a starling, Gracula religiosa, of S and SE Asia: a popular cage bird because of its ability to talk
- indian pudding — a sweet baked pudding made of cornmeal, molasses, milk, and various spices.
- indigenisation — Alternative spelling of indigenization.
- indigenization — to make indigenous.
- indoctrinating — Present participle of indoctrinate.
- infant prodigy — an exceptionally talented child
- inland passage — Inside Passage
- inside passage — protected sea route along the W coast of North America, from Seattle, Wash., to the N part of the Alas. panhandle: the route uses channels and straits between islands and the mainland: c. 950 mi (1,529 km) long
- integrated day — teaching that is organized around themes, rather than separate subjects
- interdigitated — Simple past tense and past participle of interdigitate.
- intergradation — the act or process of intergrading or the state of being intergraded.
- intermediating — to act as an intermediary; intervene; mediate.
- intimidatingly — In an intimidating manner.
- inward-looking — person
- island-hopping — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
- jardin anglais — a landscape garden having winding paths and irregular planting.
- judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
- kendal (green) — a coarse, green woolen cloth
- kierkegaardian — of, relating to, or resembling the philosophy or religious views of Kierkegaard.
- kindergardener — Misspelling of kindergartner.
- kindergartener — a child who attends a kindergarten.
- kindergartners — Plural form of kindergartner.
- kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
- knowledge base — (artificial intelligence) A collection of knowledge expressed using some formal knowledge representation language. A knowledge base forms part of a knowledge-based system (KBS).
- lacrimal gland — either of two tear-secreting glands situated in the upper outer angle of the orbit.
- lagoon islands — a former name of Tuvalu.
- lambda lifting — A program transformation to remove free variables. An expression containing a free variable is replaced by a function applied to that variable. E.g. f x = g 3 where g y = y + x x is a free variable of g so it is added as an extra argument: f x = g 3 x where g y x = y + x Functions like this with no free variables are known as supercombinators and are traditionally given upper-case names beginning with "$". This transformation tends to produce many supercombinators of the form f x = g x which can be eliminated by eta reduction and substitution. Changing the order of the parameters may also allow more optimisations. References to global (top-level) constants and functions are not transformed to function parameters though they are technically free variables. A closely related technique is closure conversion. See also Full laziness.
- landing beacon — a radio transmitter that emits a landing beam