16-letter words containing g, e, t, i, n
- discountenancing — Present participle of discountenance.
- disincentivising — Present participle of disincentivise.
- dispersing agent — a surface-active substance added to a suspension, usually a colloid, to improve the separation of particles and to prevent settling or clumping
- distinguishments — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- district heating — a heating system in which centrally generated heat is distributed via ducts and pipes to multiple buildings or locations
- document imaging — the process of converting paper documents into an electronic or digital format
- double centering — a method of extending a survey line by taking the average of two foresights, one with the telescope direct and one with it inverted, made each time by transiting the telescope after a backsight.
- double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
- double-clutching — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
- drag coefficient — a measure of the drag of an object in a moving fluid, esp air
- dressing station — a post or center that gives first aid to the wounded, located near a combat area.
- drinking-up time — (in Britain) a short time allowed for finishing drinks before closing time in a public house
- dutch guinea pig — a breed of two-tone short-haired guinea pig
- dutch new guinea — a former name of Irian Jaya.
- eager evaluation — Any evaluation strategy where evaluation of some or all function arguments is started before their value is required. A typical example is call-by-value, where all arguments are passed evaluated. The opposite of eager evaluation is call-by-need where evaluation of an argument is only started when it is required. The term "speculative evaluation" is very close in meaning to eager evaluation but is applied mostly to parallel architectures whereas eager evaluation is used of both sequential and parallel evaluators. Eager evaluation does not specify exactly when argument evaluation takes place - it might be done fully speculatively (all redexes in the program reduced in parallel) or may be done by the caller just before the function is entered. The term "eager evaluation" was invented by Carl Hewitt and Henry Baker <[email protected]> and used in their paper ["The Incremental Garbage Collection of Processes", Sigplan Notices, Aug 1977. ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/Futures.html]. It was named after their "eager beaver" evaluator. See also conservative evaluation, lenient evaluation, strict evaluation.
- earnings-related — An earnings-related payment or benefit provides higher or lower payments according to the amount a person was earning while working.
- earth-shattering — earthshaking.
- eastern kingbird — any of several American tyrant flycatchers of the genus Tyrannus, especially T. tyrannus (eastern kingbird) of North America, known for their pugnacious disposition toward predators.
- economic migrant — person: seeks work abroad
- eighteen-wheeler — a tractor-trailer having eighteen wheels
- electric welding — the process of welding together, through the use of the heat that is produced by an electric current, pieces of metal
- electromagnetics — Electricity and magnetism, collectively, as a field of study.
- electromagnetism — The interaction of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
- electromigration — (physics) the transport of small particles under the influence of an electric charge.
- electronic organ — an electrophonic instrument played by means of a keyboard, in which sounds are produced and amplified by any of various electronic or electrical means
- elegiac quatrain — a poetic stanza consisting of four lines of iambic pentameter rhyming alternately.
- elimination game — In sports, an elimination game is a game that decides which team or player will take part in the next stage of a particular competition.
- embourgeoisement — (chiefly UK) The taking-up of middle-class attitudes or values; bourgeoisification; the process of becoming affluent.
- encephalitogenic — That can cause encephalitis.
- ending inventory — An ending inventory is all of the goods, services, or materials that a business has available for use or sale at the end of an accounting period.
- endocrinologists — Plural form of endocrinologist.
- energy-efficient — A device or building that is energy-efficient uses relatively little energy to provide the power it needs.
- energy-intensive — using large amount of energy
- english heritage — an organization, partly funded by government aid, that looks after ancient monuments and historic buildings in England
- englishman's tie — a type of knot for tying together heavy ropes
- entrenching tool — a small, collapsible spade used by a soldier in the field for digging foxholes and the like.
- epigallocatechin — Gallocatechol.
- equational logic — (logic) First-order equational logic consists of quantifier-free terms of ordinary first-order logic, with equality as the only predicate symbol. The model theory of this logic was developed into Universal algebra by Birkhoff et al. [Birkhoff, Gratzer, Cohn]. It was later made into a branch of category theory by Lawvere ("algebraic theories").
- equity weighting — the practice of assigning different values to currencies according to factors such as geographical location and climate
- eternal triangle — You use the eternal triangle to refer to a relationship involving love and jealousy between two men and a woman or two women and a man.
- ethnic cleansing — genocide
- ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
- ethnolinguistics — The field of linguistic anthropology which studies the language of a specific ethnic group.
- etiopathogenesis — (medicine) The cause and subsequent development of an abnormal condition or of a disease.
- evangelistically — In an evangelistic manner.
- exciting current — the current in a field winding.
- executive lounge — a room in an airport in which people who are travelling first class can wait for their flight in comfort
- extreme fighting — a combat sport incorporating techniques from a range of martial arts, with little if any regulation of the types of blows permissible
- face recognition — the ability of a computer to scan, store, and recognize human faces for use in identifying people
- feather geranium — a Eurasian weed, Chenopodium botrys, of the amaranth family, having clusters of inconspicuous flowers and unpleasant smelling, lobed leaves.