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16-letter words containing e, c, g, d

  • oligonucleotides — Plural form of oligonucleotide.
  • oligosaccharides — Plural form of oligosaccharide.
  • patched-together — makeshift; roughly made from disparate elements
  • pelagic division — the biogeographic realm or zone that comprises the open seas and oceans, including water of all depths.
  • permanganic acid — an acid, HMnO 4 , known only in solution.
  • phagocytic index — the average number of bacteria ingested per phagocyte in an incubated mixture of bacteria, phagocytes, and blood serum: used in determining the opsonic index.
  • picture moulding — the edge around a framed picture
  • posigrade rocket — an auxiliary rocket used to separate the sections of a multistage rocket, fired in the direction of flight.
  • program director — a chief executive responsible for selecting and scheduling programs.
  • project guardian — (project, security)   A project which grew out of the ARPA support for Multics and the sale of Multics systems to the US Air Force. The USAF wanted a system that could be used to handle more than one security classification of data at a time. They contracted with Honeywell and MITRE Corporation to figure out how to do this. Project Guardian led to the creation of the Access Isolation Mechanism, the forerunner of the B2 labeling and star property support in Multics. The DoD Orange Book was influenced by the experience in building secure systems gained in Project Guardian.
  • prolonged-action — sustained-release.
  • puddling-furnace — the act of a person or thing that puddles.
  • rearguard action — an action fought by a rearguard
  • reckless driving — a serious traffic offence whereby the driver of a vehicle disregards the rules of the road, driving very dangerously, causing accidents or other damage
  • recorded message — words spoken by someone and recorded electronically in order to be replayed again in future, esp automatically over the phone
  • recording studio — place where music is recorded
  • red-necked grebe — a large stocky grebe, Podiceps grisegena, of circumpolar regions having a dark neck: family Podicipedidae
  • 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.
  • revolving credit — credit automatically available up to a predetermined limit while payments are periodically made. Compare credit line (def 2).
  • richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
  • ring-necked duck — a North American scauplike duck, Aythya collaris, having a chestnut ring around the neck.
  • saddle stitching — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
  • safeguard clause — a clause in a contract, etc, that ensures the protection of something against problems, etc
  • sangre de cristo — a mountain range in S Colorado and N New Mexico: a part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Blanca Peak, 14,390 feet (4385 meters).
  • santiago de cuba — a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
  • school-age child — a child who is old enough to go to school
  • sculpture garden — a garden that showcases sculptures in landscaped surroundings
  • sebaceous glands — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
  • second messenger — any of various intracellular chemical substances, as cyclic AMP, that transmit and amplify the messages delivered by a first messenger to specific receptors on the cell surface.
  • secondary growth — an increase in the thickness of the shoots and roots of a vascular plant as a result of the formation of new cells in the cambium.
  • self-deprecating — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • self-vindicating — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
  • sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
  • special handling — (in the U.S. Postal Service) the handling of third- and fourth-class mail as first-class upon the payment of a fee.
  • special pleading — Law. pleading that alleges special or new matter in avoidance of the allegations made by the opposite side.
  • spreading center — a linear zone in the sea floor along which magma rises and from which adjacent crustal plates are moving apart.
  • spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
  • stage production — a play or show which is performed on stage
  • standing cypress — a plant, Ipomopsis rubra, of the southern U.S., having feathery leaves and clusters of red and yellow flowers.
  • static discharge — Static discharge is the release of static electricity when two objects touch each other.
  • student teaching — the act of teaching in a school for a limited period under supervision as part of a course to qualify as a teacher
  • thatched cottage — a cottage that has a roof that is thatched with straw, reed etc
  • the long paddock — a stockroute or roadside area offering feed to sheep and cattle in dry times
  • the scots guards — a regiment of Guards Division of the British Army which dates back to 1642
  • through-composed — having different music for each verse: a through-composed song. Compare strophic (def 2).
  • to (good) effect — You use effect in expressions such as to good effect and to no effect in order to indicate how successful or impressive an action is.
  • to get cold feet — If you get cold feet about something, you become nervous or frightened about it because you think it will fail.
  • tungsten carbide — a very hard, black or gray compound of tungsten and carbon, used in the manufacture of cutting and abrasion tools, dies, and wear-resistant machine parts.
  • vectorcardiogram — the graphic record produced by vectorcardiography.
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