17-letter words containing g, i, r, a, l, d
- early closing day — a day on which most shops in a town or area close after lunch
- edward fitzgerald — Edward, 1809–83, English poet: translator of drama and poetry, especially of Omar Khayyám.
- electrocardiogram — A record or display of a person’s heartbeat produced by electrocardiography.
- emergency landing — an occasion when a place is forced to land: for example, because of a mechanical fault, bad weather, terrorism, etc.
- epicycloidal gear — a gear of an epicyclic train
- fear and loathing — (Hunter S. Thompson) A state inspired by the prospect of dealing with certain real-world systems and standards that are totally brain-damaged but ubiquitous - Intel 8086s, COBOL, EBCDIC, or any IBM machine except the Rios (also known as the RS/6000).
- flagrante delicto — Law. in the very act of committing the offense.
- floating dry dock — a dock that floats and can be lowered in the water for the entrance of a ship, and then raised for use as a dry dock
- folie de grandeur — a delusion of grandeur; megalomania.
- garden heliotrope — the common valerian, Valeriana officinalis, especially when cultivated as an ornamental.
- general admission — an admission charge for unreserved seats at a theatrical performance, sports event, etc.
- general discharge — a discharge from military service of a person who has served honorably but who has not met all the conditions of an honorable discharge.
- generalized other — an individual's internalized impression of societal norms and expectations.
- goldbeater's skin — the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used by goldbeaters to lay between the leaves of the metal while they beat it into gold leaf.
- 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.
- grand union canal — a canal in S England linking London and the Midlands: opened in 1801
- greater celandine — celandine (def 1).
- green-winged teal — a small freshwater duck, Anas crecca, of Eurasia and North America, having an iridescent green speculum in the wing.
- greenland halibut — a flatfish, Reinhardtius hippoglossoides, similar and related to the halibut
- 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.
- headline-grabbing — A headline-grabbing statement or activity is one that is intended to attract a lot of attention, especially from the media.
- holding operation — a plan or procedure devised to prolong the existing situation
- ideogrammatically — In terms of, or by means of, ideograms.
- illegal procedure — a penalty assessed against the offensive team for a technical rules violation, as in assuming an illegal formation.
- in broad daylight — openly, in full public view
- industrial design — the art that deals with the design problems of manufactured objects, including problems of designing such objects with consideration for available materials and means of production, of designing packages, bottles, etc., for manufactured goods, and of graphic design for manufactured objects, packages, etc.
- inertial guidance — a guidance system for an aerospace vehicle, in which self-contained devices determine the vehicle's course on the basis of the directions and magnitudes of the accelerations it undergoes in flight.
- integrated school — (in New Zealand) a private or church school that has joined the state school system
- italian greyhound — one of an Italian breed of toy dogs resembling a greyhound.
- iterated integral — a double integral that is evaluated by first integrating the integrand with respect to one variable with the second variable being held constant and then integrating the resulting function with respect to the second variable.
- kerguelen islands — an archipelago in the S Indian Ocean: a possession of France. 2394 sq. mi. (6200 sq. km).
- kolar gold fields — a city in S India, in SE Karnataka: a major gold-mining centre since 1881. Pop: 176 000 (2005 est)
- lagging indicator — A lagging indicator is an economic indicator that changes following a change in the economy, such as unemployment.
- lago de nicaragua — Spanish name of Lake Nicaragua.
- large-leaved lime — an ornamental European tree with small pale yellow flowers and which grown on lime-rich soils
- leading indicator — A leading indicator is an economic indicator that changes before a change in the economy, and that can be used to predict future economic or financial activity.
- learned borrowing — a word or other linguistic form borrowed from a classical language into a modern language.
- learning-disabled — pertaining to or having a learning disability: a learning-disabled child.
- legal proceedings — court case
- legendre equation — a differential equation of the form (1− x 2) d2y/dx2 − 2 xdy/dx + a (a + 1) y = 0, where a is an arbitrary constant.
- litigation friend — a person acting on behalf of an infant or other person under legal disability
- loggerhead shrike — a common, North American shrike, Lanius ludovicianus, gray above and white below with black wings, tail, and facial mask.
- mechanical digger — a machine used for excavation
- medicochirurgical — pertaining to medicine and surgery.
- middle low german — Low German of the period c1100–c1500.
- middle-age spread — an increase in bulk, especially in the waist and buttocks, associated with the onset of middle age and the body's decreasing ability to metabolize calories efficiently.
- mileage indicator — a device on a vehicle such as a car, plane, etc which indicates the number of miles travelled
- naked singularity — an infinitely dense point mass without a surrounding black hole
- non-biodegradable — capable of decaying through the action of living organisms: biodegradable paper; biodegradable detergent.