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17-letter words containing d, i, a, g, o, n

  • lady of the night — a tropical American shrub, Brunfelsia americana, of the nightshade family, having berrylike yellow fruit and fragrant white flowers.
  • lady-of-the-night — a tropical American shrub, Brunfelsia americana, of the nightshade family, having berrylike yellow fruit and fragrant white flowers.
  • lagging indicator — A lagging indicator is an economic indicator that changes following a change in the economy, such as unemployment.
  • lago de nicaragua — Spanish name of Lake Nicaragua.
  • leading indicator — A leading indicator is an economic indicator that changes before a change in the economy, and that can be used to predict future economic or financial activity.
  • learned borrowing — a word or other linguistic form borrowed from a classical language into a modern language.
  • legal proceedings — court case
  • legendre equation — a differential equation of the form (1− x 2) d2y/dx2 − 2 xdy/dx + a (a + 1) y = 0, where a is an arbitrary constant.
  • light dawns on sb — If light dawns on you, you begin to understand something after a period of not being able to understand it.
  • litigation friend — a person acting on behalf of an infant or other person under legal disability
  • livingstone daisy — a gardener's name for various species of Mesembryanthemum, esp M. criniflorum, grown as garden annuals (though several are perennial) for their brightly coloured showy flowers: family Aizoaceae
  • long island sound — an arm of the Atlantic between Connecticut and Long Island. 90 miles (145 km) long.
  • longitudinal wave — a wave in which the direction of displacement is the same as the direction of propagation, as a sound wave.
  • madiba generation — the generation born around 1994, when Nelson Mandela became the first president of a multiracial South Africa
  • magellanic clouds — either of two irregular galactic clusters in the southern heavens that are the nearest independent star system to the Milky Way.
  • managing director — manager who oversees a project
  • manganese dioxide — a blackish, crystalline or powdery substance, MnO2, that is a strong oxidizing agent, used in making batteries, matches, etc.
  • many-valued logic — the study of logical systems in which the truth-values that a proposition may have are not restricted to two, representing only truth and falsity
  • mid-oceanic ridge — the continuous, double-ridged chain of mountains on the ocean floor, extending through the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and into the Indian and Pacific oceans
  • middle low german — Low German of the period c1100–c1500.
  • midmorning prayer — the third of the seven canonical hours; terce
  • mileage indicator — a device on a vehicle such as a car, plane, etc which indicates the number of miles travelled
  • modeling language — modelling language
  • neurodegenerative — Resulting in or characterized by degeneration of the nervous system, especially the neurons in the brain.
  • niger-kordofanian — a language family comprising Niger-Congo and Kordofanian.
  • non-biodegradable — capable of decaying through the action of living organisms: biodegradable paper; biodegradable detergent.
  • nondiscriminating — differentiating; analytical.
  • old age pensioner — An old age pensioner is a person who is old enough to receive an pension from their employer or the government.
  • organized ferment — ferment (def 1).
  • organized militia — a former military organization functioning under both state and federal authority.
  • overhead lighting — lighting which throws light downwards by being situated on the ceiling or having a downward shade, etc
  • parathyroid gland — any of several small oval glands usually lying near or embedded in the thyroid gland.
  • postural drainage — a therapy for clearing congested lungs by placing the patient in a position for drainage by gravity, often accompanied by percussion with hollowed hands.
  • predatory pricing — If a company practises predatory pricing, it charges a much lower price for its products or services than its competitors in order to force them out of the market.
  • proficiency badge — an insignia or device granted by the Girl Scouts and worn especially on a uniform to indicate special achievement.
  • programming fluid — (jargon)   (Or "wirewater") Coffee, unleaded coffee (decaffeinated), Cola, or any caffeinacious stimulant. Many hackers consider these essential for those all-night hacking runs.
  • prothoracic gland — either of a pair of endocrine glands in the anterior thorax of some insects, functioning to promote the series of molts from hatching to adulthood.
  • psychodiagnostics — the study and evaluation of character or personality in terms of behavioral and anatomical traits, as gesture, posture and physiognomy.
  • pyroligneous acid — a yellowish, acidic, water-soluble liquid, containing about 10 percent acetic acid, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood: used for smoking meats.
  • railroad crossing — place for vehicles to cross train tracks
  • rapid prototyping — (programming)   The creation of a working model of a software module to demonstrate the feasibility and suitability of the function. The prototype is expected to be replaced or refined before inclusion in the final product. Rapid prototyping contrasts with a DIRFT approach which emphasises careful design and implementation to avoid the overheads of debugging and testing prototype code. Rapid prototyping is appropriate when the requirements are unclear or likely to change (which is most of the time).
  • reading knowledge — the ability to read a language, but not speak it
  • receding forehead — a forehead which slopes backwards
  • recreation ground — an open space for public recreation, esp one in a town, with swings and slides, etc, for children
  • recreational drug — drug taken for pleasure
  • restraining order — a judicial order to forbid a particular act until a decision is reached on an application for an injunction.
  • retarded ignition — late ignition, which may cause the engine to under-perform
  • revealed religion — religion based chiefly on the revelations of God to humans, especially as described in Scripture.
  • rio grande do sul — a state in S Brazil. 107,923 sq. mi. (279,520 sq. km). Capital: Pôrto Alegre.
  • sandringham house — a residence of the royal family, in Sandringham, a village in E England, in Norfolk near the E shore of the Wash
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