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18-letter words containing g, l, a, d

  • paraurethral gland — any of a group of vestigial glands located in the posterior wall of the urethra in women.
  • passing modulation — a modulation of a temporary nature.
  • pedal steel guitar — an oblong, floor-mounted electrified guitar, usually having ten strings, fretted with a steel bar and producing a wailing sound that is modulated by use of a foot pedal.
  • personal bodyguard — a person employed to protect a particular person
  • pig-tailed macaque — a forest-dwelling southeast Asian macaque, Macaca nemestrina, having a short, curled tail, colonized for animal behavior studies.
  • plate-glass window — a window that has glass which has been formed by rolling
  • plenary indulgence — a remission of the total temporal punishment that is still due to sin after absolution. Compare indulgence (def 6).
  • point d'angleterre — a bobbin lace in which the design is worked out with either a needle or bobbin.
  • positively charged — having a positive charge
  • potential gradient — the rate of change of potential with respect to distance in the direction of greatest change.
  • precedence lossage — /pre's*-dens los'*j/ A misunderstanding of operator precedence resulting in unintended grouping of arithmetic or logical operators when coding an expression. Used especially of mistakes in C code due to the nonintuitively low precedence of "&", "|", "^", "<<" and ">>". For example, the following C expression, intended to test the least significant bit of x, x & 1 == 0 is parsed as x & (1 == 0) which is always zero (false). Some lazy programmers ignore precedence and parenthesise everything. Lisp fans enjoy pointing out that this can't happen in *their* favourite language, which eschews precedence entirely, requiring one to use explicit parentheses everywhere.
  • primate of england — a title of the archbishop of Canterbury.
  • principal diagonal — a diagonal line or plane.
  • quevedo y villegas — Francisco Gómez de. 1580–1645, Spanish poet and writer, noted for his satires and the picaresque novel La historia de la vida del Buscón (1626)
  • ragtag and bobtail — the riffraff; rabble: The ragtag and bobtail of every nation poured into the frontier in search of gold.
  • rear its ugly head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • refrigerated lorry — a lorry which is chilled in the back as for storing food
  • reggio di calabria — a seaport in S Italy, on the Strait of Messina: almost totally destroyed by an earthquake 1908.
  • regular hexahedron — a solid cube with six square faces
  • residual magnetism — remanence.
  • resistance welding — welding utilizing pressure and heat that is generated in the pieces to be welded by resistance to an electric current.
  • richard p. gabriel — Richard Gabriel
  • rotational molding — a method for molding hollow plastic objects by placing finely divided particles in a hollow mold that is rotated about two axes, exposing it to heat and then to cold.
  • seafloor spreading — a process in which new ocean floor is created as molten material from the earth's mantle rises in margins between plates or ridges and spreads out.
  • secondary diagonal — a diagonal line or plane.
  • self-deprecatingly — in a self-deprecating manner
  • self-disparagement — the act of disparaging.
  • self-understanding — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • solid-fuel heating — heating that uses solid fuel, such as coal or coke
  • spackling compound — spackle
  • standard of living — a grade or level of subsistence and comfort in everyday life enjoyed by a community, class, or individual: The well-educated generally have a high standard of living.
  • strathclyde region — a former local government region in W Scotland: formed in 1975 from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Buteshire, Dunbartonshire, and parts of Argyllshire, Ayrshire, and Stirlingshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Glasgow, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Argyll and Bute, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
  • submaxillary gland — submandibular gland.
  • superciliary ridge — browridge.
  • supraorbital ridge — browridge.
  • tender loving care — considerate and kindly care, as of someone who is ill, upset, etc
  • the grand national — an annual steeplechase run at Aintree, Liverpool, since 1839
  • the middle passage — the journey across the Atlantic Ocean from the W coast of Africa to the Caribbean: the longest part of the journey of the slave ships sailing to the Caribbean or the Americas
  • theodore gericault — (Jean Louis André) Théodore [zhahn lwee ahn-drey tey-aw-dawr] /ʒɑ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈdreɪ teɪ ɔˈdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1791–1824, French painter.
  • to a grinding halt — If you describe a bad situation as grinding, you mean it never gets better, changes, or ends.
  • transcendental ego — (in Kantian epistemology) that part of the self that is the subject and never the object.
  • ultrasonic welding — the use of high-energy vibration of ultrasonic frequency to produce a weld between two components which are held in close contact
  • universal debugger — (tool, parallel)   (udb) KSR's interactive source level debugger for serial and parallel programs written in KSR, Fortran, KSR C and KSR1 assembly language. Udb is a source level debugger for testing and debugging serial and parallel programs; it is compatible with GDB and dbx. The user can direct udb either by typing commands or graphically through an X-based window interface; the latter provides simultaneous display of source code, I/O and instructions. For parallel programs, operations can be carried out per-thread.
  • unpledged delegate — (in the US) a delegate at a national party convention who is free to vote for any candidate
  • wandering minstrel — travelling performer
  • wedge-tailed eagle — a large brown Australian eagle, Aquila audax, having a wedge-shaped tail and a wingspan of 3 m
  • welwyn garden city — a town in SE England, in Hertfordshire: established (1920) as a planned industrial and residential community. Pop: 43 512 (2001)
  • wildlife programme — (esp on television) a documentary whose subject is wild animals in their natural habitat or undomesticated fauna and flora generally
  • winged everlasting — a bushy composite plant, Ammobium alatum, of Australia, having winged branches, javelin-shaped leaves, and white flowers.
  • wrongful dismissal — the act of making someone redundant for reasons which are illegal or unjust
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