19-letter words containing g, i, e, t
- introduction agency — a company whose business is to match romantic partners for a fee
- inver grove heights — a town in SE Minnesota.
- iphigenia in tauris — a drama (413? b.c.) by Euripides.
- islet of langerhans — any of several masses of endocrine cells in the pancreas that secrete insulin, somatostatin, and glucagon.
- it serves you right — If you say it serves someone right when something unpleasant happens to them, you mean that it is their own fault and you have no sympathy for them.
- iterative deepening — (algorithm) A graph search algorithm that will find the shortest path with some given property, even when the graph contains cycles. When searching for a path through a graph, starting at a given initial node, where the path (or its end node) has some desired property, a depth-first search may never find a solution if it enters a cycle in the graph. Rather than avoiding cycles (i.e. never extend a path with a node it already contains), iterative deepening explores all paths up to length (or "depth") N, starting from N=0 and increasing N until a solution is found.
- jacques montgolfier — Jacques Étienne [zhahk ey-tyen] /ʒɑk eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1745–99, and his brother Joseph Michel [zhaw-zef mee-shel] /ʒɔˈzɛf miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA) 1740–1810, French aeronauts: inventors of the first practical balloon 1783.
- jumping bristletail — any of several thysanuran insects that live in dark, warm, moist places, as under leaves, bark, and dead tree trunks and along rocky seacoasts, and are active jumpers, making erratic leaps when disturbed.
- jumping plant louse — any of numerous lice, of the family Psyllidae, that feed on plant juices and are sometimes pests of fruits and vegetables.
- junior bantamweight — a boxer weighing up to 115 pounds (51.7 kg), between flyweight and bantamweight.
- junior middleweight — a boxer weighing up to 154 pounds (69.3 kg), between welterweight and middleweight.
- junior welterweight — a boxer weighing up to 140 pounds (63 kg), between lightweight and welterweight.
- kellogg-briand pact — a treaty renouncing war as an instrument of national policy and urging peaceful means for the settlement of international disputes, originally signed in 1928 by 15 nations, later joined by 49 others.
- knights hospitalers — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- ladies-of-the-night — plural of lady-of-the-night.
- lady of the evening — a prostitute.
- late-night shopping — later opening hours of shops than usual, esp as a regular occurrence on a particular night of the week
- leading aircraftman — the rank above aircraftman
- leading coefficient — the coefficient of the term of highest degree in a given polynomial. 5 is the leading coefficient in 5 x 3 + 3 x 2 − 2 x + 1.
- learning disability — a disorder, as dyslexia, usually affecting school-age children of normal or above-normal intelligence, characterized by difficulty in understanding or using spoken or written language, and thought to be related to impairment or slowed development of perceptual motor skills.
- left-luggage office — a checkroom for baggage.
- legislative council — the upper house of a bicameral legislature.
- let it all hang out — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- leveling instrument — an instrument used to establish a horizontal line of sight, usually by means of a spirit level.
- liberation theology — a 20th-century Christian theology, emphasizing the Biblical and doctrinal theme of liberation from oppression, whether racial, sexual, economic, or political.
- licensing agreement — an agreement that sets out the fees and terms of use for something available only under licence
- lieutenant governor — a state officer next in rank to a governor, who takes the governor's place in case of the latter's absence, disability, or death.
- light entertainment — entertainment that requires less mental effort to enjoy, or is considered frivolous
- lighten sb's burden — If someone or something lightens your burden or your load, they make a bad or difficult situation better for you.
- load-bearing printf — (programming, humour) The kind of bug present in a program which works correctly when producing debug output but fails when the debugging is turned off. The expression combines load-bearing wall and printf as used in debugging by printf.
- locomotive engineer — engineer (def 3).
- logical unit number — (storage) (LUN) A 3-bit identifier used on a SCSI bus to distinguish between up to eight devices (logical units) with the same SCSI ID.
- lose your virginity — When you lose your virginity, you have sex for the first time.
- love at first sight — instant romantic attraction to sb
- lucent technologies — (company, telecommunications, Unix) The former systems and equipment portion of AT&T (including Bell Laboratories), split off in 1996.
- luteinizing hormone — LH.
- magnesium carbonate — a white powder, MgCO 3 , insoluble in water and alcohol, soluble in acids, used in dentifrices and cosmetics, in medicine as an antacid, and as a refractory material.
- magnetic hysteresis — hysteresis in a ferromagnetic material; the lag in the response of magnetic induction to changes of magnetic intensity.
- magnetic levitation — the suspension of an object above or below a second object by means of magnetic repulsion or attraction.
- magnetic north pole — the point on Earth to where a compass needle points, and which is situated near the geographic North Pole. However, with time, the exact location can vary.
- magnetic tape drive — (storage) (Or "tape drive") A peripheral device that reads and writes magnetic tape.
- magnetohydrodynamic — Of or pertaining to magnetohydrodynamics.
- magnetomotive force — a scalar quantity that is a measure of the sources of magnetic flux in a magnetic circuit. Abbreviation: mmf.
- mail transfer agent — Message Transfer Agent
- male chauvinist pig — male chauvinist.
- malice aforethought — a predetermination to commit an unlawful act without just cause or provocation (applied chiefly to cases of first-degree murder).
- managed competition — a strategy for healthcare delivery whereby costs are reduced by fostering competition between providers of managed-care contracts for large employers.
- management training — training provided to managers in order to increase their management skills
- manchester encoding — (communications, protocol) A method of transmitting bits which enables the receiver to easily synchronise with the sender. A simple way of signalling bits might be to transmit a high voltage for some period for a 1-bit and a low voltage for a 0 bit: Bits Sent: 1 1 0 0 Signal: High ___ Low |___ Time: -> . . . . . However, when several identical bits are sent in succession, this provides no information to the receiver about when each bit starts and stops. Manchester encoding splits each bit period into two, and ensures that there is always a transition between the signal levels in the middle of each bit. This allows the receiver to synchronise with the sender. In normal Manchester encoding, a 1-bit is transmitted with a high voltage in the first period, and a low voltage in the second, and vice verse for the 0 bit: Bits Sent: 1 1 0 0 Signal: High Low || |_| || Time: -> . ' . ' . ' . ' . In Differential Manchester encoding, a 1-bit is indicated by making the first half of the signal equal to the last half of the previous bit's signal and a 0-bit is indicated by making the first half of the signal opposite to the last half of the previous bit's signal. That is, a zero bit is indicated by a transition at the beginning of the bit. Like normal Manchester encoding, there is always a transition in the middle of the transmission of the bit. Differential Manchester Encoding Bits Sent: 1 1 0 0 Signal: High __ Low |_| || || Time: -> . ' . ' . ' . ' . With each bit period half as long, twice as much bandwidth is required when using either of the Manchester encoding schemes.
- manned space flight — space travel in vehicles with a human crew