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15-letter words containing d, i, n, g, p

  • gender-specific — for, characteristic of, or limited to either males or females: Left-handedness is not gender-specific.
  • get the wind up — to become frightened
  • golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
  • green sandpiper — a species of sandpiper, Tringa ochropus, with a greenish back and wings
  • greenfield park — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
  • gynandromorphic — (of an organism) Having male and female characteristics.
  • hawaiian pidgin — an English-based creole widely spoken in Hawaii.
  • high-dependency — needing or providing a more than usually high level of healthcare
  • high-principled — possessing or displaying very high moral or ethical principles
  • holding company — a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations (distinguished from parent company).
  • holding paddock — a paddock in which cattle or sheep are kept temporarily, as before shearing, etc
  • holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
  • hot-dip coating — the process of coating sheets of iron or steel with molten zinc.
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • in good spirits — cheerful
  • interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
  • ipod generation — members of the generation of adults born after 1970, who are less financially secure than their parents, due to student debt, high house prices, and job insecurity
  • lapland bunting — a passerine bird: Calcarius lapponicus
  • loading program — a series of instructions entered automatically in a program that starts the processing.
  • lynden pindling — Lynden Oscar ("Father of the Bahamas") 1930–2000, Bahamian political leader: first prime minister 1967–92.
  • 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.
  • midgard serpent — a serpent, the child of Loki and Angerboda, who lies wrapped around the world, tail in mouth, and is destined to kill and to be killed by Thor at Ragnarok; Jormungand.
  • misapprehending — Present participle of misapprehend.
  • mouse droppings — 1.   (graphics, operating system, jargon)   Pixels (usually single) that are not properly restored when the mouse pointer moves away from a particular location on the screen, producing the appearance that the mouse pointer has left droppings behind. The major causes for this problem are MS-DOS programs that write to the screen memory corresponding to the mouse pointer's current location without hiding the mouse pointer first, and mouse drivers that do not quite support the graphics mode in use. 2.   (web, jargon)   The client address recorded in a web server's log whenever a client connects to a site. Users may be unaware that their activity is being logged in this way but the potential for misuse of the information is limited.
  • nodding pogonia — a rare orchid, Triphora trianthophora, of the eastern U.S., bearing three pink flowers.
  • non-disparaging — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
  • old age pension — An old age pension is a regular amount of money that people receive from the government when they have retired from work.
  • packing density — a measure of the amount of data that can be held by unit length of a storage medium, such as magnetic tape
  • paedophile ring — a group of people who take part in illegal sexual activity involving children
  • painted bunting — a brilliantly colored bunting, Passerina ciris, of the southern U.S.
  • paphian goddess — Aphrodite, worshiped in Cyprus as the goddess of sexual love.
  • pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
  • pelargonic acid — a colorless, oily, water-immiscible liquid, C 9 H 1 8 O 2 , occurring as an ester in a volatile oil in species of pelargonium: used chiefly in organic synthesis and in the manufacture of lacquers and plastics.
  • perfect binding — a technique for binding books by a machine that cuts off the backs of the sections and glues the leaves to a cloth or paper backing.
  • phonocardiogram — the graphic record produced by a phonocardiograph.
  • photoconducting — of or relating to photoconduction
  • pituitary gland — a small, somewhat cherry-shaped double structure attached by a stalk to the base of the brain and constituting the master endocrine gland affecting all hormonal functions in the body, consisting of an anterior region ((anterior pituitary) or (adenohypophysis)) that develops embryonically from the roof of the mouth and that secretes growth hormone, LH, FSH, ACTH, TSH, and MSH, a posterior region ((posterior pituitary) or (neurohypophysis)) that develops from the back of the forebrain and that secretes the hormones vasopressin and oxytocin, and an intermediate part (pars intermedia) derived from the anterior region but joined to the posterior region, that secretes the hormone MSH in lower vertebrates.
  • pointing device — an input device, as a mouse, stylus, or joystick, used to control movement of a cursor or pointer.
  • powder magazine — a compartment for the storage of ammunition and explosives.
  • prairie-dogging — (in an open-plan office) the practice of looking over the top of one's partition in order to discover the source of or reason for a commotion
  • pre-advertising — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
  • prekindergarten — a school or class for young children between the ages of four and six years.
  • primary winding — an induction coil that is the part of an electric circuit in which a changing current induces a current in a neighbouring circuit
  • program trading — trading on international stock exchanges using a computer program to exploit differences between stock index futures and actual share prices on world equity markets
  • pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
  • psychodiagnosis — a psychological examination using psychodiagnostic techniques.
  • public building — a building that belongs to a town or state, and is used by the public
  • public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
  • pyramid selling — Pyramid selling is a method of selling in which one person buys a supply of a particular product direct from the manufacturer and then sells it to a number of other people at an increased price. These people sell it on to others in a similar way, but eventually the final buyers are only able to sell the product for less than they paid for it.
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