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17-letter words containing g, o, m, p

  • jumping-off place — a place for use as a starting point: Paris was the jumping-off place for our tour of Europe.
  • jumping-off point — A jumping-off point or a jumping-off place is a place, situation, or occasion which you use as the starting point for something.
  • let something rip — If you let something rip, you do it as quickly or as forcefully as possible. You can say 'let it rip' or 'let her rip' to someone when you want them to make a vehicle go as fast as it possibly can.
  • logic programming — (artificial intelligence, programming, language)   A declarative, relational style of programming based on first-order logic. The original logic programming language was Prolog. The concept is based on Horn clauses. The programmer writes a "database" of "facts", e.g. wet(water). ("water is wet") and "rules", e.g. mortal(X) :- human(X). ("X is mortal is implied by X is human"). Facts and rules are collectively known as "clauses". The user supplies a "goal" which the system attempts to prove using "resolution" or "backward chaining". This involves matching the current goal against each fact or the left hand side of each rule using "unification". If the goal matches a fact, the goal succeeds; if it matches a rule then the process recurses, taking each sub-goal on the right hand side of the rule as the current goal. If all sub-goals succeed then the rule succeeds. Each time a possible clause is chosen, a "choice point" is created on a stack. If subsequent resolution fails then control eventually returns to the choice point and subsequent clauses are tried. This is known as "backtracking". Clauses may contain logic variables which take on any value necessary to make the fact or the left hand side of the rule match a goal. Unification binds these variables to the corresponding subterms of the goal. Such bindings are associated with the choice point at which the clause was chosen and are undone when backtracking reaches that choice point. The user is informed of the success or failure of his first goal and if it succeeds and contains variables he is told what values of those variables caused it to succeed. He can then ask for alternative solutions.
  • lymphangiographic — Relating to lymphangiography.
  • magnetic monopole — a hypothetical very heavy particle with an isolated magnetic north pole or magnetic south pole.
  • make no apologies — If you say that you make no apologies for what you have done, you are emphasizing that you feel that you have done nothing wrong.
  • malay archipelago — an extensive island group in the Indian and Pacific oceans, SE of Asia, including the Greater and Lesser Sunda Islands, the Moluccas, and the Philippines.
  • manpower planning — a procedure used in organizations to balance future requirements for all levels of employee with the availability of such employees
  • mass spectrograph — a mass spectroscope for recording a mass spectrum on a photographic plate.
  • melissopalynology — The study of honey and its composition.
  • mercury poisoning — illness caused by exposure to mercury
  • methylidyne group — the trivalent group ≡CH.
  • micropaleontology — the branch of paleontology dealing with the study of microscopic fossils.
  • microphotographic — Relating to microphotography.
  • midmorning prayer — the third of the seven canonical hours; terce
  • modular sb-prolog — Modular Prolog
  • mongolian hot pot — a stewlike dish of sliced meat, seafood, and vegetables cooked together in hot broth, often in a clay pot, and seasoned with a hot sauce.
  • multiple cropping — the use of the same field for two or more crops, whether of the same or of different kinds, successively during a single year.
  • neuropharmacology — the branch of pharmacology concerned with the effects of drugs on the nervous system.
  • non-profit-making — A non-profit-making organization or charity is not run with the intention of making a profit.
  • on speaking terms — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
  • open-end mortgage — a mortgage agreement against which new sums of money may be borrowed under certain conditions.
  • opening arguments — the statements or arguments provided by lawyers at the beginning of a trial
  • optical computing — (hardware)   (Or "Optical Signal Processing") Operating on data represented using electromagnetic radiation, e.g. visible light, instead of the electrical signals used in a conventional electronic digital computer. Electronic digital computers are built from transistors. These form components that store data and logic gates that perform the low-level Boolean operations such as AND, OR and NOT that are the basis of all digital computation. The optical equivalent requires material with a non-linear refractive index such that light beams can interact with each other to perform the same Boolean operations. Though the photons that carry optical signals offer some theoretical advantages over the electrons that carry electronic signals, there are many practical problems that would have to be overcome before optical computing could compete in terms of cost, power and speed.
  • packaging company — a company that packages goods on behalf of the producer
  • palaeoclimatology — the study of climates of the geological past
  • parallelogram law — Mathematics, Physics. a rule for adding two vectors, as forces (parallelogram of forces) by placing the point of application of one at the point of origin of the other and obtaining their sum by constructing the line connecting the two remaining end points, the sum being the diagonal of the parallelogram whose adjacent sides are the two vectors.
  • performance drugs — the drugs that are taken illegally by athletes to enhance their sporting performance
  • permutation group — a mathematical group whose elements are permutations and in which the product of two permutations is the same permutation as is obtained by performing them in succession.
  • personnel manager — head of Human Resources department
  • phantom pregnancy — the occurrence of signs of pregnancy, such as enlarged abdomen and absence of menstruation, when no embryo is present, due to hormonal imbalance
  • pharmacologically — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
  • ploughman's lunch — a light lunch consisting of bread and cheese, and sometimes pickled onions.
  • poor man's orange — a grapefruit
  • popular etymology — folk etymology.
  • portfolio manager — a person employed by others to make investments for them
  • postage due stamp — a stamp that is affixed to mail at a post office when prepayment of postage is insufficient, to indicate the amount that must be collected from the addressee.
  • powder metallurgy — the art or science of manufacturing useful articles by compacting metal and other powders in a die, followed by sintering.
  • precision bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped, as accurately as possible, on a specific, usually small, target.
  • program generator — a computer program that can be used to help to create other computer programs
  • program statement — a single instruction in a computer program
  • programme planner — someone who creates plans or schedules in regards to their line of work or occupation
  • programmed camera — a camera with electronic facilities for setting both aperture and shutter speed automatically on the basis of a through-the-lens light value and a given film speed
  • programming fluid — (jargon)   (Or "wirewater") Coffee, unleaded coffee (decaffeinated), Cola, or any caffeinacious stimulant. Many hackers consider these essential for those all-night hacking runs.
  • quantum computing — quantum computer
  • radiometeorograph — a device for the automatic transmission by radio of the data from a set of meteorological instruments
  • reformed spelling — a revised orthography intended to simplify the spelling of English words, especially to eliminate unpronounced letters, as by substituting thru for through, tho for though, slo for slow, etc.
  • request programme — a programme on the radio where listeners can request certain songs or tracks
  • role-playing game — a game in which participants adopt the roles of imaginary characters in an adventure under the direction of a Game Master.
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