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17-letter words containing d, o, g, e, s

  • drive-by shooting — an incident in which a person, building, or vehicle is shot at by someone in a moving vehicle
  • droit du seigneur — the supposed right claimable by a feudal lord to have sexual relations with the bride of a vassal on her first night of marriage.
  • early closing day — a day on which most shops in a town or area close after lunch
  • edgar watson howe — E(dgar) W(atson) 1853–1937, U.S. novelist and editor.
  • emissions trading — the buying and selling of allowances for pollutant emissions
  • english shellcode — (security)   A kind of malware that is embedded in ordinary English sentences. English shellcode attempts to avoid detection by antivirus software by making the code resemble, e.g. e-mail text or Wikipedia entries. It was first revealed by researchers at Johns Hopkins.
  • enlarged prostate — disorder of male reproductive gland
  • explosion welding — the welding of two parts forced together by a controlled explosion
  • find one's tongue — to recover the ability to talk, as after shock or embarrassment
  • first-order logic — (language, logic)   The language describing the truth of mathematical formulas. Formulas describe properties of terms and have a truth value. The following are atomic formulas: True False p(t1,..tn) where t1,..,tn are terms and p is a predicate. If F1, F2 and F3 are formulas and v is a variable then the following are compound formulas: The "order" of a logic specifies what entities "For all" and "Exists" may quantify over. First-order logic can only quantify over sets of atomic propositions. (E.g. For all p . p => p). Second-order logic can quantify over functions on propositions, and higher-order logic can quantify over any type of entity. The sets over which quantifiers operate are usually implicit but can be deduced from well-formedness constraints. In first-order logic quantifiers always range over ALL the elements of the domain of discourse. By contrast, second-order logic allows one to quantify over subsets.
  • flog a dead horse — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
  • garboard (strake) — the strake adjoining the keel
  • gaseous diffusion — the passage of gas through microporous barriers, a technique used for isotope separation, especially in the preparation of fuel for nuclear reactors.
  • gender expression — the external expression of gender roles, as through socially defined behaviors and ways of dressing.
  • general admission — an admission charge for unreserved seats at a theatrical performance, sports event, etc.
  • get one's wind up — to become (or be) nervous or alarmed
  • go by the wayside — to be put aside on account of something more urgent
  • going to the dogs — If you say that something is going to the dogs, you mean that it is becoming weaker and worse in quality.
  • goldbeater's skin — the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used by goldbeaters to lay between the leaves of the metal while they beat it into gold leaf.
  • golden alexanders — a plant, Zizia aurea, of the parsley family, native to eastern North America, having compound leaves and umbels of yellow flowers.
  • golden hand-shake — a special incentive, as generous severance pay, given to an older employee as an inducement to elect early retirement.
  • gomez de la serna — Ramón [rah-mawn] /rɑˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), ("Ramón") 1888–1963, Spanish novelist, dramatist, biographer, and critic.
  • graduated pension — the money that an employee receives after retirement if they have paid into the graduated pension scheme
  • grain of paradise — Usually, grains of paradise. one of the pungent, peppery seeds of an African plant, Aframomum melegueta, of the ginger family, used to strengthen cordials and in veterinary medicine.
  • greensand process — a process for casting iron with sand not previously heated.
  • gross value added — the aggregate of values added throughout an economy, which represents that economy's gross domestic product
  • ground angle shot — a photograph or film shot in which the lens is near the ground, usually pointing up somewhat
  • guardhouse lawyer — a person in military service, especially an inmate of a guardhouse or brig, who is or claims to be an authority on military law, regulations, and soldiers' rights.
  • gulf war syndrome — a group of symptoms occurring in some Gulf War veterans, most commonly including headache and memory loss, muscle pain, skin disorders, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and gastrointestinal and respiratory ailments, possibly caused by exposure to chemical weapons, vaccines, infectious diseases, or other factors.
  • gustavo a. madero — official name of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
  • high-heeled shoes — shoes having high, rather than flat, heels
  • hodgkin's disease — a type of cancer characterized by progressive chronic inflammation and enlargement of the lymph nodes of the neck, armpit, groin, and mesentery, by enlargement of the spleen and occasionally of the liver and the kidneys, and by lymphoid infiltration along the blood vessels.
  • hold one's ground — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
  • hold one's tongue — Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
  • homogentisic acid — an intermediate compound in the metabolism of tyrosine and of phenylalanine, found in excess in the blood and urine of persons affected with alkaptonuria.
  • hydrogen sulphide — Chemistry
  • in double figures — An amount or number that is in single figures is between zero and nine. An amount or number that is in double figures is between ten and ninety-nine. You can also say, for example, that an amount or number is in three figures when it is between one hundred and nine hundred and ninety-nine.
  • integrated course — a course that covers several subjects
  • integrated optics — an assembly of miniature optical elements of a size comparable to those used in electronic integrated circuits.
  • integrated school — (in New Zealand) a private or church school that has joined the state school system
  • interior designer — a person whose profession is the execution of interior design.
  • isherwood framing — a system for framing steel vessels in which light, closely spaced, longitudinal frames are connected by heavy, widely spaced transverse frames with deep webs.
  • job-order costing — a method of cost accounting by which the total cost of a given unit or quantity is determined by computing the costs that go into making a product as it moves through the manufacturing process.
  • judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
  • knowledgeableness — The state, quality, or measure of being knowledgeable; wisdom.
  • kolar gold fields — a city in S India, in SE Karnataka: a major gold-mining centre since 1881. Pop: 176 000 (2005 est)
  • lagrange's method — a procedure for finding maximum and minimum values of a function of several variables when the variables are restricted by additional conditions.
  • lead a dog's life — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
  • legal aid society — an organization providing free legal guidance and service to persons who cannot afford a lawyer.
  • legal proceedings — court case
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