16-letter words containing d, e, c, a, g, o
- disclosing agent — a vegetable dye, administered as a liquid or in tablet form (disclosing tablet), that stains plaque, making it readily apparent on the teeth
- discountenancing — Present participle of discountenance.
- document imaging — the process of converting paper documents into an electronic or digital format
- drag coefficient — a measure of the drag of an object in a moving fluid, esp air
- drogue parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
- echocardiographs — Plural form of echocardiograph.
- echocardiography — an instrument employing reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the structures and functioning of the heart.
- fandango on core — (jargon, programming) (Unix/C, from the Mexican dance) In C, a wild pointer that runs out of bounds, causing a core dump, or corrupts the malloc arena in such a way as to cause mysterious failures later on, is sometimes said to have "done a fandango on core". On low-end personal machines without an MMU, this can corrupt the operating system itself, causing massive lossage. Other frenetic dances such as the rhumba, cha-cha, or watusi, may be substituted. See aliasing bug, precedence lossage, smash the stack, memory leak, memory smash, overrun screw, core.
- feel-good factor — When journalists refer to the feel-good factor, they mean that people are feeling hopeful and optimistic about the future.
- focused strategy — a business strategy in which an organization divests itself of all but its core activities, using the funds raised to enhance the distinctive abilities that give it an advantage over its rivals
- for a good cause — If you say that something is for a good cause, you mean that it is worth doing or giving to because it will help other people, for example by raising money for charity.
- forward exchange — a foreign bill purchased at a stipulated price and payable at a future date.
- gaudí (i cornet) — An‧to‧nio (ɑnˈtɔnjɔ ) ; änt^ōˈny^ō) 1852-1926; Sp. architect
- gazetted officer — (in India) a senior official whose appointment is published in the government gazette
- glycosylceramide — (organic chemistry) Any glycosyl derivative of a ceramide.
- gold certificate — a former U.S. paper currency issued by the federal government for circulation from 1865 to 1933, equal to and redeemable for gold to a stated value.
- gold-headed cane — a long thin stick with a curved or round top made of gold
- golden handcuffs — payments deferred over a number of years that induce a person to stay with a particular company or in a particular job
- golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
- grace-and-favour — (of a house, flat, etc) owned by the sovereign and granted free of rent to a person to whom the sovereign wishes to express gratitude
- greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
- grid declination — the angular difference between true north and grid north on a map
- ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
- guaranteed stock — stock for which dividends are guaranteed by a company other than the one issuing the stock.
- hardrock geology — (loosely) of or relating to igneous or metamorphic rocks, as in mining (hard-rock mining) and geology (hard-rock geology)
- heralds' college — a royal corporation in England, instituted in 1483, concerned chiefly with armorial bearings, genealogies, honors, and precedence.
- higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
- horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
- huffman encoding — Huffman coding
- hydrogen cyanide — a colorless poisonous gas, HCN, having a bitter almondlike odor: in aqueous solution it forms hydrocyanic acid.
- legal dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the various branches of the legal profession, as civil law, criminal law, and corporate law. A comprehensive legal dictionary adds to its body of standard English entries many words and phrases that have made their way into modern legal practice from law French and Latin and are rarely found in a general English monolingual dictionary. Such a specialized dictionary is useful not only for law students and for attorneys themselves, but for members of the lay public who require legal services. Legal dictionaries published in print follow the normal practice of sorting entry terms alphabetically, while electronic dictionaries, such as the online Dictionary of Law on Dictionary.com, allow direct, immediate access to a search term.
- like cat and dog — quarrelling savagely
- machine moulding — the process of making moulds and cores for castings by mechanical means, usually by compacting the moulding sand by vibration instead of by ramming down
- magellanic cloud — either of two irregular galactic clusters in the southern heavens that are the nearest independent star system to the Milky Way.
- malicious damage — Malicious damage is damage caused on purpose to the property of another person.
- methodologically — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
- mönchen-gladbach — city in WC Germany, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia: pop. 266,000
- moulding machine — a machine for pressing sand into a mould
- objective danger — a danger, such as a stone fall or avalanche, to which climbing skill is irrelevant
- oligosaccharides — Plural form of oligosaccharide.
- patched-together — makeshift; roughly made from disparate elements
- pelagic division — the biogeographic realm or zone that comprises the open seas and oceans, including water of all depths.
- phagocytic index — the average number of bacteria ingested per phagocyte in an incubated mixture of bacteria, phagocytes, and blood serum: used in determining the opsonic index.
- posigrade rocket — an auxiliary rocket used to separate the sections of a multistage rocket, fired in the direction of flight.
- program director — a chief executive responsible for selecting and scheduling programs.
- project guardian — (project, security) A project which grew out of the ARPA support for Multics and the sale of Multics systems to the US Air Force. The USAF wanted a system that could be used to handle more than one security classification of data at a time. They contracted with Honeywell and MITRE Corporation to figure out how to do this. Project Guardian led to the creation of the Access Isolation Mechanism, the forerunner of the B2 labeling and star property support in Multics. The DoD Orange Book was influenced by the experience in building secure systems gained in Project Guardian.
- prolonged-action — sustained-release.
- rearguard action — an action fought by a rearguard
- recorded message — words spoken by someone and recorded electronically in order to be replayed again in future, esp automatically over the phone
- sangre de cristo — a mountain range in S Colorado and N New Mexico: a part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Blanca Peak, 14,390 feet (4385 meters).