17-letter words containing g, a, l, m, i

drilling platform — a structure, either fixed to the sea bed or mobile, which supports the machinery and equipment (the drilling rig), together with the stores, required for digging an offshore oil well
eat flaming death — (humour, abuse) A construction popularised among hackers by the infamous CPU Wars comic; supposedly derive from a famously turgid line in a WWII-era anti-Nazi propaganda comic that ran "Eat flaming death, non-Aryan mongrels!" or something of the sort (however, it is also reported that the Firesign Theater's 1975 album "In The Next World, You're On Your Own" included the phrase "Eat flaming death, fascist media pigs"; this may have been an influence). Used in humorously overblown expressions of hostility. "Eat flaming death, EBCDIC users!"
election campaign — efforts to promote party or candidate to voters
electrocardiogram — A record or display of a person’s heartbeat produced by electrocardiography.
electromyographic — Using electromyography.
electroretinogram — A record of the electrical activity of the retina, used in medical diagnosis and research.
emergency landing — an occasion when a place is forced to land: for example, because of a mechanical fault, bad weather, terrorism, etc.
emotional baggage — burden of personal experience
epidemiologically — With regard to epidemiology.
epistemologically — In a manner that pertains to epistemology.
exfoliating cream — a granular cosmetic preparation that removes dead cells from the skin's surface
facsimile catalog — a catalog that includes small reproductions of the items listed, as paintings, slides, designs, or the like.
ferrimagnetically — In a ferrimagnetic manner.
financial manager — a person responsible for the supervision and handling of the financial affairs of an organization
garlic mayonnaise — mayonnaise flavoured with garlic
general admission — an admission charge for unreserved seats at a theatrical performance, sports event, etc.
general sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
general semantics — a philosophical approach to language, developed by Alfred Korzybski, exploring the relationship between the form of language and its use and attempting to improve the capacity to express ideas.
genetic algorithm — (GA) An evolutionary algorithm which generates each individual from some encoded form known as a "chromosome" or "genome". Chromosomes are combined or mutated to breed new individuals. "Crossover", the kind of recombination of chromosomes found in sexual reproduction in nature, is often also used in GAs. Here, an offspring's chromosome is created by joining segments choosen alternately from each of two parents' chromosomes which are of fixed length. GAs are useful for multidimensional optimisation problems in which the chromosome can encode the values for the different variables being optimised.
geographical mile — nautical mile.
glycosaminoglycan — any of a class of polysaccharides derived from hexosamine that form mucins when complexed with proteins: formerly called mucopolysaccharide.
glymphatic system — Anatomy. the system or process by which cerebrospinal fluid moves through channels formed by glia, cleansing the mammalian brain of harmful waste.
go the extra mile — make an exceptional effort
good-time charlie — an affable, sociable, pleasure-loving man.
grand climacteric — Physiology. a period of decrease of reproductive capacity in men and women, culminating, in women, in the menopause.
guardian ad litem — a person appointed by a court as guardian of an infant or other person to act on his or her behalf in a particular action or proceeding.
guglielmo marconi — Guglielmo [goo-lyel-maw] /guˈlyɛl mɔ/ (Show IPA), Marchese, 1874–1937, Italian electrical engineer and inventor, especially in the field of wireless telegraphy: Nobel Prize in physics 1909.
gunboat diplomacy — diplomatic relations involving the use or threat of military force, especially by a powerful nation against a weaker one.
haemagglutinating — That agglutinates red blood cells.
haemagglutination — Alternative form of hemagglutination.
haemoglobinometer — an instrument used to determine the haemoglobin content of blood
haemoglobinopathy — (medicine) Any of a group of inherited disorders in which haemoglobin does not function properly.
hippocampal gyrus — a convolution on the inner surface of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum, bordering the hippocampus.
i will/can manage — You say 'I can manage' or 'I'll manage' as a way of refusing someone's offer of help and insisting on doing something by yourself.
ideogrammatically — In terms of, or by means of, ideograms.
illegal immigrant — a person who has entered a country illegally
improper integral — Also called infinite integral. a definite integral in which one or both of the limits of integration is infinite.
intergovernmental — involving two or more governments or levels of government.
intragovernmental — Within a government.
jumping-off place — a place for use as a starting point: Paris was the jumping-off place for our tour of Europe.
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.
large-leaved lime — an ornamental European tree with small pale yellow flowers and which grown on lime-rich soils
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.
line of scrimmage — an imaginary line parallel to the goal lines that passes from one sideline to the other through the point of the football closest to the goal line of each team.
linear assignment — assignment problem
listings magazine — a magazine with lists of TV and radio schedules
literacy campaign — a campaign designed to reduce illiteracy and promote literacy in a country, area, etc
logic programming — (artificial intelligence, programming, language) A declarative, relational style of programming based on first-order logic. The original logic programming language was Prolog. The concept is based on Horn clauses. The programmer writes a "database" of "facts", e.g. wet(water). ("water is wet") and "rules", e.g. mortal(X) :- human(X). ("X is mortal is implied by X is human"). Facts and rules are collectively known as "clauses". The user supplies a "goal" which the system attempts to prove using "resolution" or "backward chaining". This involves matching the current goal against each fact or the left hand side of each rule using "unification". If the goal matches a fact, the goal succeeds; if it matches a rule then the process recurses, taking each sub-goal on the right hand side of the rule as the current goal. If all sub-goals succeed then the rule succeeds. Each time a possible clause is chosen, a "choice point" is created on a stack. If subsequent resolution fails then control eventually returns to the choice point and subsequent clauses are tried. This is known as "backtracking". Clauses may contain logic variables which take on any value necessary to make the fact or the left hand side of the rule match a goal. Unification binds these variables to the corresponding subterms of the goal. Such bindings are associated with the choice point at which the clause was chosen and are undone when backtracking reaches that choice point. The user is informed of the success or failure of his first goal and if it succeeds and contains variables he is told what values of those variables caused it to succeed. He can then ask for alternative solutions.
lymphangiographic — Relating to lymphangiography.

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