15-letter words containing e, p, i, l, o, g
- go up in flames — be burned
- golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
- good-fellowship — a pleasant, convivial spirit; comradeship; geniality.
- grecian profile — a profile distinguished by the absence of the hollow between the upper ridge of the nose and the forehead, thereby forming a straight line.
- guerrilla group — an organized group of guerrillas
- halting problem — The problem of determining in advance whether a particular program or algorithm will terminate or run forever. The halting problem is the canonical example of a provably unsolvable problem. Obviously any attempt to answer the question by actually executing the algorithm or simulating each step of its execution will only give an answer if the algorithm under consideration does terminate, otherwise the algorithm attempting to answer the question will itself run forever. Some special cases of the halting problem are partially solvable given sufficient resources. For example, if it is possible to record the complete state of the execution of the algorithm at each step and the current state is ever identical to some previous state then the algorithm is in a loop. This might require an arbitrary amount of storage however. Alternatively, if there are at most N possible different states then the algorithm can run for at most N steps without looping. A program analysis called termination analysis attempts to answer this question for limited kinds of input algorithm.
- hepaticological — of or relating to hepaticology
- hieroglyphology — the study of hieroglyphic writing.
- 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.
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- hyperpolarizing — Present participle of hyperpolarize.
- hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
- ideographically — an ideogram.
- imperial gallon — a British gallon used in liquid and dry measurement equivalent to 1.2 U.S. gallons, or 4.54 liters.
- isotope geology — the study and application of stable and radioactive isotopes to geological processes and their time scales
- jogger's nipple — painful inflammation of the nipple, caused by friction with a garment when running for long distances
- lepidopterology — the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.
- leptomeningitis — (pathology) inflammation of the leptomeninges.
- leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
- lexical scoping — lexical scope
- lexicographical — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- linear topology — (theory) A linear topology on a left A-module M is a topology on M that is invariant under translations and admits a fundamental system of neighborhood of 0 that consists of submodules of M. If there is such a topology, M is said to be linearly topologized. If A is given a discrete topology, then M becomes a topological A-module with respect to a linear topology.
- long parliament — the Parliament that assembled November 3, 1640, was expelled by Cromwell in 1653, reconvened in 1659, and was dissolved in 1660.
- loose chippings — pieces of gravel spread on the top of tarmac that fail to stick to it
- low archipelago — a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 332 sq. mi. (860 sq. km).
- malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
- metric topology — a topology for a space in which open sets are defined in terms of a given metric.
- multiple voting — the casting of ballots in more than one constituency in one election, as in England before the election reform of 1918.
- multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.
- negro spiritual — a type of religious song originating among Black slaves in the American South
- neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
- neurophysiology — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
- non-overlapping — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- old age pension — An old age pension is a regular amount of money that people receive from the government when they have retired from work.
- opening balance — the amount of money in an account at the start of an accounting period
- operating cycle — the period of time between starting a business and making a profit
- operating table — table on which surgery is performed
- ophthalmoplegia — Paralysis of the muscles within or surrounding the eye.
- optical storage — optical disk drive
- over-privileged — having too many advantages or opportunities compared to others.
- package holiday — a holiday arranged by a travel company in which your travel and accommodation are booked for you
- paedophile ring — a group of people who take part in illegal sexual activity involving children
- palaeolimnology — the study of ancient lake ecologies
- palaeomagnetism — the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks, used to determine the past configurations of the continents and to investigate the past shape and magnitude of the earth's magnetic field
- palaeomagnetist — a student of or expert in palaeomagnetism
- paleogeophysics — (used with a plural verb) inferred geophysical conditions or processes of designated periods of the geologic past.
- pectoral girdle — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the forelimbs.
- pelargonic acid — a colorless, oily, water-immiscible liquid, C 9 H 1 8 O 2 , occurring as an ester in a volatile oil in species of pelargonium: used chiefly in organic synthesis and in the manufacture of lacquers and plastics.
- phenomenologies — the study of phenomena.