16-letter words containing g, i, l, n
- closing argument — In a court case, a lawyer's closing argument is their final speech, in which they give a summary of their case.
- cog in the wheel — small part of a large system
- collagen disease — any of a group of diseases, as systemic lupus erythematosus, polyarteritis, scleroderma, and rheumatoid arthritis, involving inflammation or degeneration of connective tissue and accompanied by deposition of fibrinous material.
- colonial heights — a town in central Virginia.
- colorado springs — a city and resort in central Colorado. Pop: 370 448 (2003 est)
- come/bring alive — If a story or description comes alive, it becomes interesting, lively, or realistic. If someone or something brings it alive, they make it seem more interesting, lively, or realistic.
- common logarithm — a logarithm to the base ten. Usually written log or log10
- complexing agent — an intricate or complicated association or assemblage of related things, parts, units, etc.: the entire complex of our educational system; an apartment complex.
- congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
- congressionalist — of or relating to a congress.
- consanguineously — In a consanguineous fashion; by blood relationship.
- consenting adult — a male person over the age of sixteen, who may legally engage in homosexual behaviour in private
- constant folding — (compiler) A compiler optimisation technique where constant subexpressions are evaluated at compile time. This is usually only applied to built-in numerical and boolean operators whereas partial evaluation is more general in that expressions involving user-defined functions may also be evaluated at compile time.
- consulting hours — the hours during which health practitioners are available for consultation
- contingency plan — a plan to be carried out if a more likely or desired outcome does not happen
- contract killing — a murder carried out in fulfilment of a contract
- correcting plate — a thin lens used to correct incoming light rays in special forms of reflecting telescopes.
- counterbalancing — Present participle of counterbalance.
- counterguerrilla — (of operations, conflicts, etc) conducted against guerrillas
- creeping thistle — a weedy Eurasian thistle, Cirsium arvense, common as a fast-spreading weed in the US
- critical damping — the minimum amount of viscous damping that results in a displaced system returning to its original position without oscillation
- curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
- cytotechnologist — a technician who specializes in identifying cells and cellular abnormalities.
- dangling pointer — (programming) A reference that doesn't actually lead anywhere. In C and some other languages, a pointer that doesn't actually point at anything valid. Usually this happens because it formerly pointed to something that has moved or disappeared, e.g. a heap-allocated block which has been freed and reused. Used as jargon in a generalisation of its technical meaning; for example, a local phone number for a person who has since moved is a dangling pointer.
- de-anglicization — (in Ireland) the elimination of English influence, language, customs, etc
- dead man walking — a condemned man walking from his prison cell to a place of execution
- deflationary gap — a situation in which total spending in an economy is insufficient to buy all the output that can be produced with full employment
- deflecting force — the apparent deflection (Coriolis acceleration) of a body in motion with respect to the earth, as seen by an observer on the earth, attributed to a fictitious force (Coriolis force) but actually caused by the rotation of the earth and appearing as a deflection to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and a deflection to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
- delaying tactics — techniques used to delay sth
- delegitimization — The act or process of delegitimizing.
- dental hygienist — a dentist's assistant skilled in dental hygiene
- deoxyhaemoglobin — (biochemistry) The form of haemoglobin that has released its oxygen.
- departure signal — a piece of equipment beside a railway which indicates to train drivers whether they should depart or not
- depression glass — cheap glassware mass-produced during the Depression of the 1930s, usually molded in patterns in pale colors, and collectible since the early 1970s
- descending colon — the last portion of the colon, beginning at the upper left abdomen in the region of the spleen and continuing downward along the left posterior wall to the sigmoid flexure.
- designer stubble — (on a man) facial hair that is carefully trimmed to give what is thought to be an attractive rugged slightly unshaven look
- destroying angel — a white slender very poisonous basidiomycetous toadstool, Amanita virosa, having a pronounced volva, frilled, shaggy stalk, and sickly smell
- developing world — Third World: poor countries
- devil's triangle — Bermuda Triangle.
- diagonal process — a form of argument in which a new member of a set is constructed from a list of its known members by making the nth term of the new member differ from the nth term of the nth member. The new member is thus different from every member of the list
- diamond drilling — drilling using a drill with a diamond-impregnated bit
- digital envelope — (cryptography)
- director general — the executive head of an organization or of a major subdivision, as a branch or agency, of government.
- director-general — the executive head of an organization or of a major subdivision, as a branch or agency, of government.
- disagreeableness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being disagreeable.
- disclosing agent — a vegetable dye, administered as a liquid or in tablet form (disclosing tablet), that stains plaque, making it readily apparent on the teeth
- discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
- discriminatingly — With discrimination.
- division algebra — a linear algebra in which each element of the vector space has a multiplicative inverse.
- 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.