15-letter words containing d, i, t, o, g
- fire-and-forget — used to describe a type of missile that, once fired, is able to guide itself to its target
- flight of ideas — a rapid flow of thought, manifested by accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic: a symptom of some mental illnesses, especially manic disorder.
- flight recorder — an electronic device aboard an aircraft that automatically records some aspects of the aircraft's performance in flight.
- floating island — a dessert consisting of boiled custard with portions of meringue, whipped cream, or whipped egg whites and sometimes jelly floating upon it or around it.
- floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
- fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.
- foresightedness — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
- founding father — The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
- freedom fighter — a fighter for freedom, especially a person who battles against established forces of tyranny and dictatorship.
- frigidoreceptor — a receptor stimulated by cold.
- gallant soldier — a South American plant, Galinsoga parviflora, widely distributed as a weed, having small daisy-like flowers surrounded by silvery scales: family Asteraceae (composites)
- gamma radiation — a photon of penetrating electromagnetic radiation (gamma radiation) emitted from an atomic nucleus.
- gardening tools — tools used for gardening, such as a trowel, spade, rake, etc
- gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.
- gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
- geodetic survey — a land area survey in which the curvature of the surface of the earth is taken into account.
- get sb into bed — To get someone into bed means to persuade them to have sex with you.
- gibraltar board — a type of lining board with a cardboard surface and a gypsum core
- glucocorticoids — Plural form of glucocorticoid.
- go into details — If someone does not go into details about a subject, or does not go into the detail, they mention it without explaining it fully or properly.
- go the distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- go to the devil — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
- golden triangle — (sometimes lowercase) an area of Southeast Asia encompassing parts of Burma, Laos, and Thailand, significant as a major source of opium and heroin.
- goldenrain tree — a small, deciduous Asian tree (Koelreuteria paniculata) of the soapberry family having small yellow flowers and papery fruit pods
- goodness of fit — the extent to which observed sample values of a variable approximate to values derived from a theoretical density, often measured by a chi-square test
- grade inflation — the awarding of higher grades than students deserve either to maintain a school's academic reputation or as a result of diminished teacher expectations.
- grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- 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.
- grid networking — a type of computer networking that harnesses unused processing cycles of ordinary desktop computers to create a virtual supercomputer
- grind to a halt — If a country's economy or something such as a process grinds to a halt, it gradually becomes slower or less active until it stops.
- ground meristem — an area of primary meristematic tissue, emerging from and immediately behind the apical meristem, that develops into the pith and the cortex.
- growth industry — an industry that is experiencing rapid growth
- guru meditation — (operating system) The Amiga equivalent of Unix's panic (sometimes just called a "guru" or "guru event"). When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the form "GURU MEDITATION #XXXXXXXX.YYYYYYYY" may appear, indicating what the problem was. An Amiga guru can figure things out from the numbers. In the earliest days of the Amiga, there was a device called a "Joyboard" which was basically a plastic board built onto a joystick-like device; it was sold with a skiing game cartridge for the Atari game machine. It is said that whenever the prototype OS crashed, the system programmer responsible would concentrate on a solution while sitting cross-legged, balanced on a Joyboard, resembling a meditating guru. Sadly, the joke was removed in AmigaOS 2.04. The Jargon File claimed that a guru event had to be followed by a Vulcan nerve pinch but, according to a correspondent, a mouse click was enough to start a reboot.
- hair of the dog — an alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover
- have got it bad — to be infatuated
- have it so good — to have so many benefits, esp material benefits
- heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
- high definition — a system for screen display of images that are sharper and more detailed than normal, having many more than the standard number of scanning lines per frame: Most TV shows are available in high definition. Abbreviation: HD. See also high-definition television.
- high priesthood — the condition or office of a high priest.
- high-definition — High-definition television or technology is a digital system that gives a much clearer picture than traditional television systems.
- 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.
- holiday cottage — a cottage used for accommodation for a family, couple, etc, on holiday
- hot-dip coating — the process of coating sheets of iron or steel with molten zinc.
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
- hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- i beg to differ — You say 'I beg to differ' when you are politely emphasizing that you disagree with someone.
- idiot's delight — any variety of the card game solitaire.
- in a good light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.