16-letter words containing d, i, s, a, g
- great depression — the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s.
- gynandromorphism — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
- hacienda heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- hailing distance — the distance within which the human voice can be heard: They sailed within hailing distance of the island.
- hamming distance — (data) The minimum number of bits that must be changed in order to convert one bit string into another. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming.
- handling charges — a fee paid to cover the packaging, transport, etc, of a commodity
- harvard graphics — (graphics, tool) A presentation graphics product by Software Publishing Corporation (SPC) for creating presentations, speeches, slides, etc..
- hawaiian gardens — a town in SW California.
- horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
- hudsonian godwit — any of several large, widely distributed shorebirds of the genus Limosa, as the New World L. haemastica (Hudsonian godwit) having a long bill that curves upward slightly.
- hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
- indian wrestling — arm wrestling
- indiscriminating — not discriminating.
- italian dressing — a strongly flavored vinaigrette for salads, containing garlic, oregano, red peppers, etc.
- kingdom of arles — a kingdom in SE France which had dissolved by 1378: known as the Kingdom of Burgundy until about 1200
- kingfisher daisy — a bushy southern African plant, Felicia bergerana, having grasslike leaves and solitary, bright-blue flowers.
- ladies'-earrings — lady's-earrings.
- leading question — a question so worded as to suggest the proper or desired answer.
- lightheartedness — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
- living daylights — having life; being alive; not dead: living persons.
- living standards — standard of living; material quality of life
- long-established — having a long history; old
- malicious damage — Malicious damage is damage caused on purpose to the property of another person.
- marshalling yard — a place or depot where railway wagons are shunted and made up into trains and where engines, carriages, etc, are kept when not in use
- masculine ending — a final inflection or suffix designating that a word belongs to the masculine gender.
- mayfield heights — a city in N Ohio, near Cleveland.
- measuring device — gauge
- message digest 5 — (messaging) The message digest function defined in RFC 1321.
- middle stone age — the Mesolithic period.
- missionary ridge — a ridge in NW Georgia and SE Tennessee: Civil War battle 1863.
- misunderstanding — failure to understand correctly; mistake as to meaning or intent.
- mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
- nitrogen mustard — any of the class of poisonous, blistering compounds, as C 5 H 1 1 Cl 2 N, analogous in composition to mustard gas but containing nitrogen instead of sulfur: used in the treatment of cancer and similar diseases; mechlorethamine.
- no hard feelings — If you say ' no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- odds are against — If you say that the odds are against something or someone, you mean that they are unlikely to succeed.
- oligosaccharides — Plural form of oligosaccharide.
- passage to india — a novel (1924) by E. M. Forster.
- pelagian islands — a group of Italian islands (Lampedusa, Linosa, and Lampione) in the Mediterranean, between Tunisia and Malta. Pop: 6066 (2004 est). Area: about 27 sq km (11 sq miles)
- pelagic division — the biogeographic realm or zone that comprises the open seas and oceans, including water of all depths.
- portuguese india — a former Portuguese overseas territory on the W coast of India, consisting of the districts of Gôa, Daman, and Diu: annexed by India December 1961. Capital: Gôa.
- posigrade rocket — an auxiliary rocket used to separate the sections of a multistage rocket, fired in the direction of flight.
- prestidigitation — sleight of hand; legerdemain.
- preunderstanding — to perceive the meaning of; grasp the idea of; comprehend: to understand Spanish; I didn't understand your question.
- punitive damages — law: penalty payment
- qin shi huang di — Ch'in Shih Huang Ti.
- radio evangelist — a Christian minister who devotes time to preaching on the radio
- register dancing — Many older processor architectures suffer from a serious shortage of general-purpose registers. This is especially a problem for compiler-writers, because their generated code needs places to store temporaries for things like intermediate values in expression evaluation. Some designs with this problem, like the Intel 80x86, do have a handful of special-purpose registers that can be pressed into service, providing suitable care is taken to avoid unpleasant side effects on the state of the processor: while the special-purpose register is being used to hold an intermediate value, a delicate minuet is required in which the previous value of the register is saved and then restored just before the official function (and value) of the special-purpose register is again needed.
- registered share — a stock registered to the owner's name
- religious leader — head of a church or order
- revised algol 60 — ALGOL 60 Revised