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16-letter words containing g, o, d

  • de morgan's laws — (in formal logic and set theory) the principles that conjunction and disjunction, or union and intersection, are dual. Thus the negation of P & Q is equivalent to not-P or not-Q
  • de-anglicization — (in Ireland) the elimination of English influence, language, customs, etc
  • dearborn heights — city in SE Mich.: suburb of Detroit: pop. 58,000
  • debating society — a club, e.g. at a school or university, which regularly holds debates
  • debt forgiveness — the action or process of forgiving people their debts
  • 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.
  • degrees of frost — When someone says that there are a particular number of degrees of frost they mean that the temperature is that number of degrees below freezing point.
  • delegitimization — The act or process of delegitimizing.
  • dendrochronology — the study of the annual rings of trees, used esp to date past events
  • deoxyhaemoglobin — (biochemistry) The form of haemoglobin that has released its oxygen.
  • departure lounge — In an airport, the departure lounge is the place where passengers wait before they get onto their plane.
  • depending on sth — You use depending on when you are saying that something varies according to the circumstances mentioned.
  • dephlogisticated — Simple past tense and past participle of dephlogisticate.
  • 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
  • depth psychology — the study of unconscious motives and attitudes
  • dermatologically — In a dermatological way.
  • 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.
  • destigmatization — The process or act of destigmatizing.
  • 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
  • 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
  • diazoamino group — the divalent group –N=NNH–.
  • dick whittington — Richard ("Dick") 1358?–1423, English merchant and philanthropist: Lord Mayor of London 1398, 1406–07, 1419–20.
  • digital computer — a computer that processes information in digital form.
  • digital envelope — (cryptography)  
  • dimethylglyoxime — (organic compound) The oxime 2,3-butanedione dioxime that is used as a reagent in the analysis of nickel and palladium.
  • dinitrogen oxide — a colourless nonflammable slightly soluble gas with a sweet smell: used as an anaesthetic in dentistry and surgery. Formula: N 2O
  • dinosaurs mating — (humour)   The activity said to occur when yet another big iron merger or buy-out occurs; reflects a perception by hackers that these signal another stage in the long, slow dying of the mainframe industry. Also described as "elephants mating": lots of noise and action at a high level, with an eventual outcome in the somewhat distant future. In its glory days of the 1960s, it was "IBM and the Seven Dwarves": Burroughs, Control Data, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR, RCA, and Univac. Early on, RCA sold out to Univac and GE also sold out, and it was "IBM and the BUNCH" (an acronym for Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell) for a while. Honeywell was bought out by Bull. Univac in turn merged with Sperry to form Sperry/Univac, which was later merged (although the employees of Sperry called it a hostile takeover) with Burroughs to form Unisys in 1986 (this was when the phrase "dinosaurs mating" was coined). In 1991 AT&T absorbed NCR, only to spit it out again in 1996. Unisys bought Convergent Technologies in 1988 and later others. More such earth-shaking unions of doomed giants seem inevitable.
  • diphthongisation — The process by which a single vowel sound (monophthong) shifts to a two-vowel vocalization (diphthong).
  • diphthongization — to change into or pronounce as a diphthong.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • discographically — In terms of discography.
  • discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
  • discountenancing — Present participle of discountenance.
  • discussion group — group assembled to discuss sth
  • disingenuousness — The state or quality of being disingenuous.
  • disposable goods — consumer goods that are used up a short time after purchase, including perishables, newspapers, clothes, etc
  • disproportioning — Present participle of disproportion.
  • division algebra — a linear algebra in which each element of the vector space has a multiplicative inverse.
  • doctor's surgery — A doctor's surgery is the same as a doctor's office.
  • document imaging — the process of converting paper documents into an electronic or digital format
  • 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.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • double-clutching — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
  • drag coefficient — a measure of the drag of an object in a moving fluid, esp air
  • draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
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