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17-letter words containing g, l, a, n, d, s

  • abariringa island — a coral atoll in the S Pacific Ocean, part of Kiribati: largest of the Phoenix Islands. 3.5 sq. mi. (9 sq. km).
  • absolute judgment — any judgment about a single stimulus, e.g. about the value of one of its properties or about whether it is present or absent
  • angry fruit salad — (abuse)   A bad visual-interface design that uses too many colours. (This term derives, of course, from the bizarre day-glo colours found in canned fruit salad). Too often one sees similar effects from interface designers using colour window systems such as X; there is a tendency to create displays that are flashy and attention-getting but uncomfortable for long-term use.
  • antiprostaglandin — A prostaglandin inhibitor.
  • assateague island — a narrow island in SE Maryland and E Virginia on Chincoteague Bay: annual wild pony roundup. 33 miles (53 km) long.
  • bartholin's gland — either of two small glands near the vaginal opening: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous lubricating substance
  • base lending rate — a minimum interest rate on which financial institutions base the rates they use for lending
  • blue false indigo — a North American plant, Baptisia australis, of the legume family, having wedge-shaped leaflets and blue, clustered flowers.
  • board-and-shingle — a small dwelling with wooden walls and a shingle roof
  • broderie anglaise — open embroidery on white cotton, fine linen, etc
  • cardinal grosbeak — any of various mostly tropical American buntings, such as the cardinal and pyrrhuloxia, the males of which have brightly coloured plumage
  • charles lindbergh — Anne (Spencer) Morrow, 1906–2001, U.S. writer (wife of Charles Augustus Lindbergh).
  • cleveland heights — city in NE Ohio: suburb of Cleveland: pop. 50,000
  • closed-captioning — (of a television program, film, or video) distributed with synchronized transcription of speech and written descriptions of other relevant audio elements, as for the hearing-impaired, that are visible only when the option to display them is selected. Abbreviation: CC.
  • closing-down sale — a sale held to clear stock from a shop that is ceasing to operate
  • dagestan republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
  • david livingstoneDavid, 1813–73, Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa.
  • deadly nightshade — a poisonous Eurasian solanaceous plant, Atropa belladonna, having dull purple bell-shaped flowers and small very poisonous black berries
  • deindustrializing — Present participle of deindustrialize.
  • dephlogisticating — Present participle of dephlogisticate.
  • digital signature — an encrypted digital code appended to an electronic document to verify that it was created by a known source and has not been altered.
  • disadvantageously — In a disadvantageous manner.
  • disaster planning — disaster recovery
  • discomgoogolation — a feeling of anxiety felt by someone who is unable to access the internet
  • distance learning — education in which students receive instruction over the Internet, from a video, etc., instead of going to school.
  • distillers' grain — a by-product of the distillation process for making whisky, used as an animal foodstuff
  • douglas engelbart — (person)   Douglas C. Engelbart, the inventor of the mouse. On 1968-12-09, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California, USA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the on live system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The presentation was a session in the of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse, hypertext, object addressing, dynamic file linking and shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface. The original 90-minute video: Hyperlinks, Mouse, Web-board.
  • early closing day — a day on which most shops in a town or area close after lunch
  • enlarged prostate — disorder of male reproductive gland
  • galapagos islands — a group of 15 islands in the Pacific west of Ecuador, of which they form a province: discovered (1535) by the Spanish; main settlement on San Cristóbal. Pop: 18 640 (2001). Area: 7844 sq km (3028 sq miles)
  • game as ned kelly — extremely brave; indomitable
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • golden alexanders — a plant, Zizia aurea, of the parsley family, native to eastern North America, having compound leaves and umbels of yellow flowers.
  • golden hand-shake — a special incentive, as generous severance pay, given to an older employee as an inducement to elect early retirement.
  • gomez de la serna — Ramón [rah-mawn] /rɑˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), ("Ramón") 1888–1963, Spanish novelist, dramatist, biographer, and critic.
  • ground angle shot — a photograph or film shot in which the lens is near the ground, usually pointing up somewhat
  • gulf war syndrome — a group of symptoms occurring in some Gulf War veterans, most commonly including headache and memory loss, muscle pain, skin disorders, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and gastrointestinal and respiratory ailments, possibly caused by exposure to chemical weapons, vaccines, infectious diseases, or other factors.
  • in-band signaling — in-band signalling
  • indefatigableness — The state of being indefatigable.
  • indistinguishable — not distinguishable.
  • indistinguishably — In an indistinguishable manner; so that separate components or differences cannot be discerned.
  • 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.
  • integrated school — (in New Zealand) a private or church school that has joined the state school system
  • kerguelen islands — an archipelago in the S Indian Ocean: a possession of France. 2394 sq. mi. (6200 sq. km).
  • knowledgeableness — The state, quality, or measure of being knowledgeable; wisdom.
  • ladies-in-waiting — plural of lady-in-waiting.
  • lagrange's method — a procedure for finding maximum and minimum values of a function of several variables when the variables are restricted by additional conditions.
  • landscaped garden — a garden that has been artistically designed

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