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15-letter words containing g, o, l, i, a

  • crawling horror — (jargon)   Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site. Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity. "Mostly we code new stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror." Compare WOMBAT.
  • cricopharyngeal — of, relating to, or involving the cricoid cartilage and the pharynx.
  • critical region — that part of a statistical distribution in which the probability of a given hypothesis is less than the chosen significance level, so that the hypothesis would be rejected
  • crossing patrol — a person who holds up the traffic so that school children can cross the road safely
  • crustaceologist — One who studies crustaceology.
  • cryptographical — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
  • cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
  • cycling holiday — a holiday in which one cycles between destinations
  • cycloneolignane — (organic chemistry) Any neolignane having an additional ring.
  • cytogenetically — (medicine, biology) By means or in terms of cytogenetics, the genetics of the cell.
  • cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
  • de broglie wave — a hypothetical wave associated with the motion of a particle of atomic or subatomic size that describes effects such as the diffraction of beams of particles by crystals.
  • deagglomeration — Deagglomeration is the process of breaking up agglomerates.
  • deglamorization — the act or process of making less glamorous
  • delayed opening — the automatic opening of a parachute after a predetermined delay to allow the parachutist to reach a particular height
  • delaying action — a measure or measures taken to gain time, as when weaker military forces harass the advance of a superior enemy without coming to a pitched battle
  • demographically — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
  • denationalizing — Present participle of denationalize.
  • depersonalizing — Present participle of depersonalize.
  • dephlogisticate — to reduce or remove inflammation from
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • developing bath — an amount of photographic developer into which photographic film or paper is inserted
  • developing tank — a container used to develop photographic film and which enables the film to be developed in daylight
  • diagonal matrix — a square matrix in which all the entries except those along the diagonal from upper left to lower right are zero.
  • diagonalisation — (UK) In matrix algebra, the process of converting a square matrix into a diagonal matrix, usually to find the eigenvalues of the matrix.
  • diagonalization — (in linear algebra) the process of diagonalizing
  • dialectological — Of or relating to dialectology.
  • diglycolic acid — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 4 H 6 O 5 , used chiefly in the manufacture of resins and plasticizers.
  • dinoflagellates — Plural form of dinoflagellate.
  • direction angle — an angle made by a given vector and a coordinate axis.
  • disappointingly — failing to fulfill one's hopes or expectations: a disappointing movie; a disappointing marriage.
  • double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
  • double negation — the principle that a statement is equivalent to the denial of its negation, as it is not the case that John is not here meaning John is here
  • double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.
  • dysteleological — Of or pertaining to dysteleology.
  • ecclesiological — Of or pertaining to ecclesiology.
  • egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
  • electing a pope — (electronics, humour)   (From the smoke signals given out when the guys in funny hats choose a new Pope) Causing an integrated circuit or other electronic component to emit smoke by passing too much current through it. See magic smoke.
  • electromagnetic — Of or relating to the interrelation of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
  • electronegative — Electrically negative.
  • electronic game — any of various small handheld computerized games, usually battery-operated, having a small screen on which graphics are displayed and buttons to operate the game
  • electrosurgical — Relating to electrosurgery.
  • elegiac couplet — a couplet composed of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter
  • embryologically — Regarding embryology.
  • endocrine gland — anatomy: hormone-secreting gland
  • endolymphangial — (anatomy) Within a lymphatic vessel.
  • english sparrow — a small Eurasian weaverbird, Passer domesticus, now established in North America and Australia. It has a brown streaked plumage with grey underparts
  • entomologically — In terms of entomology.
  • epeirogenically — in the manner of epeirogeny
  • epidemiological — Of or pertaining to epidemiology.
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