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

  • integral equation — an equation in which an integral involving a dependent variable appears.
  • integral function — an entire function.
  • integrated school — (in New Zealand) a private or church school that has joined the state school system
  • intellectualising — Give an intellectual character to.
  • intellectualizing — Present participle of intellectualize.
  • intelligence test — any of various tests, as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale or the Stanford-Binet test, designed to measure the intellectual capacity of a person.
  • intelligence work — spying
  • intergenerational — of, relating to, or for individuals in different generations or age categories: intergenerational housing.
  • intergovernmental — involving two or more governments or levels of government.
  • interval training — an exercise and training program in which each session consists of periods of intense exertion alternating with periods of rest or lighter exertion.
  • intragovernmental — Within a government.
  • invisible mending — any form of repair, esp to clothing, in which the aim is to make the finished repair work undetectable
  • italian greyhound — one of an Italian breed of toy dogs resembling a greyhound.
  • iterated integral — a double integral that is evaluated by first integrating the integrand with respect to one variable with the second variable being held constant and then integrating the resulting function with respect to the second variable.
  • jumping-off place — a place for use as a starting point: Paris was the jumping-off place for our tour of Europe.
  • kensington palace — a royal residence in Kensington Gardens, in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea; dating from the 17th century, it was improved and extended by Sir Cristopher Wren
  • kerguelen islands — an archipelago in the S Indian Ocean: a possession of France. 2394 sq. mi. (6200 sq. km).
  • kinesthesiologist — Someone who practices kinesthesiology.
  • kolar gold fields — a city in S India, in SE Karnataka: a major gold-mining centre since 1881. Pop: 176 000 (2005 est)
  • ladies-in-waiting — plural of lady-in-waiting.
  • lady of the night — a tropical American shrub, Brunfelsia americana, of the nightshade family, having berrylike yellow fruit and fragrant white flowers.
  • lady-of-the-night — a tropical American shrub, Brunfelsia americana, of the nightshade family, having berrylike yellow fruit and fragrant white flowers.
  • lago de nicaragua — Spanish name of Lake Nicaragua.
  • lake winnipegosis — a lake in S Canada, in W Manitoba. Area: 5400 sq km (2086 sq miles)
  • langerhans islets — islets of Langerhans
  • langmuir isotherm — A Langmuir isotherm is a classical relationship between the concentrations of a solid and a fluid, used to describe a state of no change in the sorption process.
  • language planning — the development of policies or programs designed to direct or change language use, as through the establishment of an official language, the standardization or modernization of a language, or the development or alteration of a writing system.
  • large-leaved lime — an ornamental European tree with small pale yellow flowers and which grown on lime-rich soils
  • lead a dog's life — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
  • leading indicator — A leading indicator is an economic indicator that changes before a change in the economy, and that can be used to predict future economic or financial activity.
  • league of nations — an international organization to promote world peace and cooperation that was created by the Treaty of Versailles (1919): dissolved April 1946.
  • learned borrowing — a word or other linguistic form borrowed from a classical language into a modern language.
  • learning-disabled — pertaining to or having a learning disability: a learning-disabled child.
  • lebesgue integral — an integral obtained by application of the theory of measure and more general than the Riemann integral.
  • leg before wicket — a manner of dismissal on the grounds that a batsman has been struck on the leg by a bowled ball that otherwise would have hit the wicket
  • legal aid society — an organization providing free legal guidance and service to persons who cannot afford a lawyer.
  • legal proceedings — court case
  • legendre equation — a differential equation of the form (1− x 2) d2y/dx2 − 2 xdy/dx + a (a + 1) y = 0, where a is an arbitrary constant.
  • lepidopterologist — One who studies lepidopterology.
  • let something rip — If you let something rip, you do it as quickly or as forcefully as possible. You can say 'let it rip' or 'let her rip' to someone when you want them to make a vehicle go as fast as it possibly can.
  • lexicographically — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
  • lifelong learning — the provision or use of both formal and informal learning opportunities throughout people's lives in order to foster the continuous development and improvement of the knowledge and skills needed for employment and personal fulfilment
  • light heavyweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a middleweight and a heavyweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 175 pounds (80 kg).
  • light in the head — dizzy; giddy
  • light machine gun — any air-cooled machine gun having a caliber not greater than 0.30 inches (7.6 mm).
  • light mineral oil — a colorless, oily, almost tasteless, water-insoluble liquid, usually of either a standard light density (light mineral oil) or a standard heavy density (heavy mineral oil) consisting of mixtures of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum by distillation: used chiefly as a lubricant, in the manufacture of cosmetics, and in medicine as a laxative.
  • lighthouse keeper — a person who mans a lighthouse and makes sure that the light is working properly
  • lighting engineer — a person qualified and trained to design the illumination for a building, house, event, etc
  • ligurian republic — the republic in NW Italy set up by Napoleon in 1797, incorporated into France in 1805, and united with the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1814.
  • line conditioning — (communications)   The adjustment of electrical characteristics of, e.g., twisted pair telephone lines by insertion of components such as resistors, capacitors, transformers or (commonly) inductors. Lines intended for analogue voice signals usually have inductors inserted every few miles; such a line is said to be "loaded". The special purpose lines which have neither inductors nor the DC voltage which powers ordinary telephones are said to be "dry," and are much better for data transmission.
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