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14-letter words containing g, a, d, f

  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • fragmentedness — The quality of being fragmented.
  • garden of eden — Eden1
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • good afternoon — greeting
  • gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
  • graeffe method — a method, involving the squaring of roots, for approximating the solutions to algebraic equations.
  • grandfathering — Present participle of grandfather.
  • guard of honor — a guard specially designated for welcoming or escorting distinguished guests or for accompanying a casket in a military funeral.
  • gulf of anadyr — an inlet of the Bering Sea, off the coast of NE Russia
  • guy fawkes day — (in Britain) November 5, celebrating the anniversary of the capture of Guy Fawkes.
  • half-pedalling — a technique of piano playing in which the sustaining pedal is raised and immediately depressed thus allowing the lower strings to continue sounding
  • half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
  • hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
  • height of land — a watershed
  • highland fling — fling (def 17).
  • huffman coding — (algorithm)   A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
  • infant prodigy — an exceptionally talented child
  • lambda lifting — A program transformation to remove free variables. An expression containing a free variable is replaced by a function applied to that variable. E.g. f x = g 3 where g y = y + x x is a free variable of g so it is added as an extra argument: f x = g 3 x where g y x = y + x Functions like this with no free variables are known as supercombinators and are traditionally given upper-case names beginning with "$". This transformation tends to produce many supercombinators of the form f x = g x which can be eliminated by eta reduction and substitution. Changing the order of the parameters may also allow more optimisations. References to global (top-level) constants and functions are not transformed to function parameters though they are technically free variables. A closely related technique is closure conversion. See also Full laziness.
  • magnetic field — a region of space near a magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle in which a magnetic force acts on any other magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle.
  • managed forest — a sustainable forest in which usually at least one tree is planted for every tree felled
  • midnight feast — a snack or many snacks eaten around midnight
  • mongolian fold — epicanthus.
  • newfangledness — of a new kind or fashion: newfangled ideas.
  • non-fragmented — reduced to fragments.
  • paradigm shift — a dramatic change in the paradigm of a scientific community, or a change from one scientific paradigm to another.
  • right and left — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
  • right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
  • rigidification — the state or process of stiffening or rigidifying
  • self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
  • self-defeating — serving to frustrate, thwart, etc., one's own intention or interests: His behavior was certainly self-defeating.
  • self-diagnosis — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-expanding — to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc.: Heat expands most metals. He hopes to expand his company.
  • self-generated — made without the aid of an external agent; produced spontaneously.
  • self-hardening — noting or pertaining to any of various steels that harden after heating without quenching or other treatment.
  • self-mediating — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • self-regarding — consideration for oneself or one's own interests.
  • self-regulated — governed or controlled from within; self-regulating.
  • shifting sands — If you refer to the shifting sands of a situation, you mean that it changes so often that it is difficult to deal with.
  • so far so good — all is well up to this point
  • stand the gaff — harsh treatment or criticism: All the gaff he took never made him bitter.
  • straight-faced — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • strong forward — power forward
  • tariff heading — the description of a product attached to a tariff line
  • twelfth-grader — (in the US) a pupil in the twelfth-grade
  • unrefrigerated — to make or keep cold or cool, as for preservation.
  • url forwarding — URL redirection
  • wrongful death — the death of a person wrongfully caused, as comprising the grounds of a damage suit.
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