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17-letter words containing e, g, l, o

  • contingency table — an array having the frequency of occurrence of certain events in each of a number of samples
  • contrasuggestible — responding or tending to respond to a suggestion by doing or believing the opposite
  • controlling image — a literary device employing repetition so as to stress the theme of a work or a particular symbol.
  • corporate village — an area close to the workplace where many everyday facilities are provided for a company's workers
  • counterchallenges — Plural form of counterchallenge.
  • country gentleman — a rich man with an estate in the country
  • cumulative voting — a system of voting in which each elector has as many votes as there are candidates in his constituency. Votes may all be cast for one candidate or distributed among several
  • cyanogen chloride — a colorless, volatile, poisonous liquid, CNCl, used chiefly in the synthesis of compounds containing the cyano group.
  • cytomegaloviruses — Plural form of cytomegalovirus.
  • cytotechnologists — the study of human cells to detect signs of cancer or other abnormalities.
  • damage limitation — Damage limitation is action that is taken to make the bad results of something as small as possible, when it is impossible to avoid bad results completely.
  • david livingstone — David, 1813–73, Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa.
  • decontextualizing — to remove (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) from a context: decontextualized works of art displayed in museums.
  • defending counsel — a barrister who defends a client in a trial
  • deliver the goods — to produce or perform something promised or expected
  • demythologization — The act of demythologizing, or something demythologized.
  • dendroarchaeology — (archaeology) the science that uses dendrochronology to date wooden material from archaeological sites.
  • dendroclimatology — The science that uses dendrochronology to reconstruct historical climate conditions.
  • dephlogisticating — Present participle of dephlogisticate.
  • designer clothing — Designer clothing is fashionable or luxury clothing made by, or carrying the label of, a well-known fashion designer.
  • development grant — a grant awarded, esp by a government, to a person or company in order to fund the development of a new product
  • dialect geography — linguistic geography
  • dialectologically — In terms of dialectology.
  • diethylene glycol — a syrupy colorless liquid, C 4 H 10 O 3 , used as a solvent for cellulose nitrate and as a fabric softener.
  • digital audiotape — a cassette containing magnetic tape used for high-fidelity digital recording or playback of audio. Abbreviation: DAT.
  • digital recording — a method of sound recording in which an input audio waveform is sampled at regular intervals, usually between 40,000 and 50,000 times per second, and each sample is assigned a numerical value, usually expressed in binary notation.
  • disadvantageously — In a disadvantageous manner.
  • distributed logic — a computer system in which remote terminals and electronic devices, distributed throughout the system, supplement the main computer by doing some of the computing or decision making
  • double gloucester — a type of smooth orange-red cheese of mild flavour
  • douglas engelbart — (person)   Douglas C. Engelbart, the inventor of the mouse. On 1968-12-09, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California, USA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the on live system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The presentation was a session in the of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse, hypertext, object addressing, dynamic file linking and shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface. The original 90-minute video: Hyperlinks, Mouse, Web-board.
  • down the plughole — If you say that something has gone down the plughole, you mean that it has failed or has been lost or wasted.
  • early closing day — a day on which most shops in a town or area close after lunch
  • echoencephalogram — a graphic record produced by an echoencephalograph.
  • elastic stockings — something made of elastic which you wear on your legs to aid circulation
  • election campaign — efforts to promote party or candidate to voters
  • electoral college — officials: vote for president
  • electrocardiogram — A record or display of a person’s heartbeat produced by electrocardiography.
  • electrometallurgy — metallurgy involving the use of electric-arc furnaces, electrolysis, and other electrical operations
  • electromyographic — Using electromyography.
  • electronegativity — The tendency, or a measure of the ability, of an atom or molecule to attract electrons and thus form bonds.
  • electrophysiology — The branch of physiology that deals with the electrical phenomena associated with nervous and other bodily activity.
  • electroretinogram — A record of the electrical activity of the retina, used in medical diagnosis and research.
  • electrotechnology — the technological use of electric power
  • emotional baggage — burden of personal experience
  • employment agency — company: finds jobs
  • 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
  • enrolment figures — the numbers of people enrolling at an institution, on a course, etc
  • epicycloidal gear — a gear of an epicyclic train
  • epidemiologically — With regard to epidemiology.
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