16-letter words containing g, r, i, c, e
- day of reckoning — If someone talks about the day of reckoning, they mean a day or time in the future when people will be forced to deal with an unpleasant situation which they have avoided until now.
- debating chamber — a room where a legislative assembly holds debates
- dechristianizing — Present participle of dechristianize.
- 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.
- dermatologically — In a dermatological way.
- 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
- digital computer — a computer that processes information in digital form.
- digital research — (company) The company which developed CP/M, the operating system used on many of the first generation 8-bit microprocessor-based personal computers. Digital Research also produced DR-DOS. Address: Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
- direct marketing — marketing direct to the consumer, as by direct mail or coupon advertising.
- 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.
- disappearing act — magic trick
- disenfranchising — Present participle of disenfranchise.
- district heating — a heating system in which centrally generated heat is distributed via ducts and pipes to multiple buildings or locations
- 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.
- drag coefficient — a measure of the drag of an object in a moving fluid, esp air
- drainage channel — a channel along which drained water flows away
- dredging machine — dredge1 (def 1).
- dual carriageway — divided highway.
- duplicate bridge — a form of contract bridge used in tournaments in which contestants play the identical series of deals, with each deal being scored independently, permitting individual scores to be compared.
- echocardiographs — Plural form of echocardiograph.
- echocardiography — an instrument employing reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the structures and functioning of the heart.
- eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
- economic embargo — a legal stoppage of commerce, usually taken by one nation or group of nations to harm the economy of another nation or group, often to force a political change
- economic migrant — person: seeks work abroad
- eigenfrequencies — Plural form of eigenfrequency.
- elective surgery — when someone chooses to have an operation which is not absolutely medically necessary
- electric welding — the process of welding together, through the use of the heat that is produced by an electric current, pieces of metal
- electrolytic gas — a mixture of two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen by volume, formed by the electrolysis of water
- electromagnetics — Electricity and magnetism, collectively, as a field of study.
- electromagnetism — The interaction of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
- electromigration — (physics) the transport of small particles under the influence of an electric charge.
- electronic organ — an electrophonic instrument played by means of a keyboard, in which sounds are produced and amplified by any of various electronic or electrical means
- elegiac quatrain — a poetic stanza consisting of four lines of iambic pentameter rhyming alternately.
- encephalographic — Relating to, or employing encephalography.
- endocrinologists — Plural form of endocrinologist.
- energy-efficient — A device or building that is energy-efficient uses relatively little energy to provide the power it needs.
- engineer officer — a ship's officer who is qualified to be in charge of the vessel's propulsion and other machinery
- engineer's chain — a unit of length equal to 100 feet
- entrenching tool — a small, collapsible spade used by a soldier in the field for digging foxholes and the like.
- epigrammatically — In a manner suggesting of an epigram.
- ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
- exciting current — the current in a field winding.
- face recognition — the ability of a computer to scan, store, and recognize human faces for use in identifying people
- facial neuralgia — paroxysmal darting pain and muscular twitching in the face, evoked by rubbing certain points of the face.
- feeping creature — [feeping creaturism] An unnecessary feature; a bit of chrome that, in the speaker's judgment, is the camel's nose for a whole horde of new features.
- ferruginous duck — a common European duck, Aythyra nyroca, having reddish-brown plumage with white wing bars
- feulgen reaction — a reaction in which an aldehyde combines with a modified Schiff's reagent to produce a purplish compound: used especially to test for the presence of DNA
- figure of speech — any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def 1).
- figure-conscious — concerned to keep an attractively slim body shape