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14-letter words containing d, i, n, g, l

  • food labelling — the practice of providing nutritional information on labels on food packaging
  • forced landing — aircraft: emergency descent
  • gambling debts — debts acquired as a result of money spent gambling
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • global dimming — a decrease in the amount of sunlight reaching the surface of the earth, believed to be caused by pollution in the atmosphere
  • glycemic index — a system that ranks foods by the speeds at which their carbohydrates are converted into glucose in the body; a measure of the effects of foods on blood-sugar levels.
  • go into detail — elaborate, recount more fully
  • golden jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
  • golden section — a ratio between two portions of a line, or the two dimensions of a plane figure, in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both: a ratio of approximately 0.618 to 1.000.
  • golden thistle — Spanish oyster plant.
  • golden wedding — the fiftieth anniversary of a wedding.
  • goncalves dias — Antonio [an-taw-nyoo] /ɛ̃ˈtɔ nyʊ/ (Show IPA), 1823–64, Brazilian poet.
  • gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • gridwall panel — A gridwall panel is a metal grid that can be hung on a wall and used for displaying goods.
  • grinding wheel — a wheel composed of abrasive material, used for grinding.
  • guardian angel — an angel believed to protect a particular person, as from danger or error.
  • gull-wing door — a car door that opens upwards
  • half-pedalling — a technique of piano playing in which the sustaining pedal is raised and immediately depressed thus allowing the lower strings to continue sounding
  • hand-lettering — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
  • heartrendingly — In a heartrending manner.
  • heidelberg man — the primitive human being reconstructed from the Heidelberg jaw.
  • height of land — a watershed
  • 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.
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • hydrogenolysis — decomposition of a compound resulting from its interaction with hydrogen.
  • 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.
  • indian grackle — a starling, Gracula religiosa, of S and SE Asia: a popular cage bird because of its ability to talk
  • inland passage — Inside Passage
  • 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.
  • jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
  • judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
  • killing fields — People sometimes refer to a battlefield or a place where many people have been killed as that place's killing fields.
  • 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
  • landing ground — airfield
  • landing lights — aircraft lights used when landing
  • landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
  • landing wheels — wheels that a plane lowers when it is going to land
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