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17-letter words containing g, r, a, d, t

  • judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
  • label edge router — (networking)   (LER) A device that sits at the edge of an MPLS domain, that uses routing information to assign labels to datagrams and then forwards them into the MPLS domain.
  • lagging indicator — A lagging indicator is an economic indicator that changes following a change in the economy, such as unemployment.
  • 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.
  • leading indicator — A leading indicator is an economic indicator that changes before a change in the economy, and that can be used to predict future economic or financial activity.
  • legendre equation — a differential equation of the form (1− x 2) d2y/dx2 − 2 xdy/dx + a (a + 1) y = 0, where a is an arbitrary constant.
  • litigation friend — a person acting on behalf of an infant or other person under legal disability
  • loggerhead turtle — a sea turtle, Caretta caretta, having a large head: now greatly reduced in number.
  • madiba generation — the generation born around 1994, when Nelson Mandela became the first president of a multiracial South Africa
  • magnetic meridian — a line on the earth's surface, passing in the direction of the horizontal component of the earth's magnetic field.
  • managing director — manager who oversees a project
  • mileage indicator — a device on a vehicle such as a car, plane, etc which indicates the number of miles travelled
  • misunderstandings — Plural form of misunderstanding.
  • mundane astrology — the astrology of worldly events, in contrast to the astrology of the individual: used especially in interpretations and forecasts involving politics, the stock market, weather, and disasters.
  • naked singularity — an infinitely dense point mass without a surrounding black hole
  • neurodegenerative — Resulting in or characterized by degeneration of the nervous system, especially the neurons in the brain.
  • new england aster — a tall composite plant, Aster novae-angliae, of the northeastern U.S., the flowers of which have lavender to deep-purple rays.
  • nondiscriminating — differentiating; analytical.
  • open-end mortgage — a mortgage agreement against which new sums of money may be borrowed under certain conditions.
  • organized ferment — ferment (def 1).
  • organized militia — a former military organization functioning under both state and federal authority.
  • overhead lighting — lighting which throws light downwards by being situated on the ceiling or having a downward shade, etc
  • painted greenling — a greenling, Oxylebius pictus, inhabiting the Pacific coastal waters of North America, having a whitish body marked with black bands.
  • parathyroid gland — any of several small oval glands usually lying near or embedded in the thyroid gland.
  • paratungstic acid — an oxyacid acid of tungsten. Formula: H10W12O14
  • parking attendant — a person who works for a traffic control agency and who issues tickets for parking violations
  • partially sighted — unable to see properly so that even with corrective aids normal activities are prevented or seriously hindered
  • pate de foie gras — See under foie gras.
  • pittsburg landing — a village in SW Tennessee, on the Tennessee River: battle of Shiloh in 1862.
  • plug and feathers — an apparatus for splitting stone, consisting of two tapered bars (feathers) inserted into a hole drilled into the stone, between which a narrow wedge (plug) is hammered to spread them.
  • postural drainage — a therapy for clearing congested lungs by placing the patient in a position for drainage by gravity, often accompanied by percussion with hollowed hands.
  • powder metallurgy — the art or science of manufacturing useful articles by compacting metal and other powders in a die, followed by sintering.
  • predatory pricing — If a company practises predatory pricing, it charges a much lower price for its products or services than its competitors in order to force them out of the market.
  • pressure gradient — the change of pressure per unit distance
  • prothoracic gland — either of a pair of endocrine glands in the anterior thorax of some insects, functioning to promote the series of molts from hatching to adulthood.
  • radiometeorograph — a device for the automatic transmission by radio of the data from a set of meteorological instruments
  • rapid prototyping — (programming)   The creation of a working model of a software module to demonstrate the feasibility and suitability of the function. The prototype is expected to be replaced or refined before inclusion in the final product. Rapid prototyping contrasts with a DIRFT approach which emphasises careful design and implementation to avoid the overheads of debugging and testing prototype code. Rapid prototyping is appropriate when the requirements are unclear or likely to change (which is most of the time).
  • rat-tailed maggot — the aquatic larva of any of several syrphid flies of the genus Eristalis, that breathes through a long, thin tube at the posterior end of its body.
  • rattle one's dags — to hurry up
  • ready and waiting — If you want to emphasize that a person is properly prepared for something, or that something can now be used, you can say that they are ready and waiting.
  • recreation ground — an open space for public recreation, esp one in a town, with swings and slides, etc, for children
  • recreational drug — drug taken for pleasure
  • regulated tenancy — (in Britain) the letting of a dwelling by a nonresident private landlord, usually at a registered fair rent, from which the landlord cannot evict the tenant without a possession order from a court
  • repeating decimal — a decimal numeral that, after a certain point, consists of a group of one or more digits repeated ad infinitum, as 2.33333 …. or 23.0218181818 ….
  • restraining order — a judicial order to forbid a particular act until a decision is reached on an application for an injunction.
  • retained earnings — income not paid out as shares
  • retarded ignition — late ignition, which may cause the engine to under-perform
  • revealed theology — theology based on the doctrine that all religious truth is derived exclusively from the revelations of God to humans.
  • richard arkwright — Sir Richard, 1732–92, English inventor of the spinning jenny.
  • right in the head — sane
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