20-letter words containing g, r, o, i

boy-meets-girl story — a film, book, etc whose plot is conventionally or trivially romantic
breakerless ignition — electronic ignition.
bring down the house — to receive enthusiastic applause from the audience
bring home the bacon — If you bring home the bacon, you achieve what you needed to achieve.
bring into the world — (of a midwife, doctor, etc) to deliver (a baby)
bring the house down — to win great applause
bring to one's knees — to force to submit or give in
bring to sb's notice — If you bring something to someone's notice, you make them aware of it.
bring x to its knees — To present a computer, operating system, piece of software, or algorithm with a load so extreme or pathological that it grinds to a halt. "To bring a MicroVAX to its knees, try twenty users running vi - or four running Emacs." Compare hog.
broadcasting station — a television or radio station
brown lung (disease) — a chronic disease of the lungs caused by inhalation of fine textile fibers, esp. cotton; byssinosis
california gold fern — an evergreen fern, Pityrogramma triangularis, growing from British Columbia to California, having the underside of the leaves covered with a deep yellow, powderlike substance.
carbohydrate loading — the practice of eating high amounts of carbohydrates, sometimes after a period of low carbohydrate intake, for several days immediately before competing in an athletic event, especially a marathon, in order to store glycogen in the body, thereby providing greater reserves of energy.
career limiting move — (jargon) (CLM, Sun) Any action endangering one's future prospects of getting plum projects and raises, and possibly one's job. E.g. "His Halloween costume was a parody of his manager. He won the prize for "best CLM"." A severe bug discovered by a customer might be a "CLM bug".
case based reasoning — (artificial intelligence) (CBR) A technique for problem solving which looks for previous examples which are similar to the current problem. This is useful where heuristic knowledge is not available. There are many situations where experts are not happy to be questioned about their knowledge by people who want to write the knowledge in rules, for use in expert systems. In most of these situations, the natural way for an expert to describe his or her knowledge is through examples, stories or cases (which are all basically the same thing). Such an expert will teach trainees about the expertise by apprenticeship, i.e. by giving examples and by asking the trainees to remember them, copy them and adapt them in solving new problems if they describe situations that are similar to the new problems. CBR aims to exploit such knowledge. Some key research areas are efficient indexing, how to define "similarity" between cases and how to use temporal information.
cassegrain telescope — an astronomical reflecting telescope in which incident light is reflected from a large concave paraboloid mirror onto a smaller convex hyperboloid mirror and then back through a hole in the concave mirror to form the image
change a reservation — If you change a reservation, you move a booking to a different date because someone who has booked a room has informed you that they wish to stay there on a different date.
child support agency — the British government agency concerned with the welfare of children
chromaticity diagram — a diagram in which values of two chromaticity coordinates are marked on a pair of rectangular axes, a point in the plane of these axes representing the chromaticity of any colour
chrono-logical order — the arrangement of things following one after another in time: Put these documents in chronological order.
coalition government — a government containing members of two or more political parties
collective agreement — a negotiated agreement, which is not enforceable at law, between an employer and employees' representatives, covering rates of pay or terms and conditions of employment, or both
college of cardinals — the collective body of cardinals having the function of electing and advising the pope
commissioning editor — a person who commissions authors to write books and magazine articles
comparative judgment — any judgment about whether there is a difference between two or more stimuli
comparative religion — a field of study seeking to derive general principles from a comparison and classification of the growth and influence of various religions.
composite photograph — a photograph formed by superimposing two or more separate photographs
compression ignition — ignition of engine fuel by the heat of air compressed in the cylinders into which the fuel is introduced.
computer programming — the activity or profession of writing computer programs
computer typesetting — a system for the high-speed composition of type by a device driven by punched paper tape or magnetic tape that has been processed by a computer
computing dictionary — Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
confectioners' sugar — Confectioners' sugar is very fine white sugar that is used for making icing and candy.
conferencing over ip — (communications, standard) (CoIP) Standards for the transmission of multimedia over the Internet. CoIP extends VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) with text, images, video. The main CoIP standard is based on H.323. The VoIP forum of the IMTC merged with the H.323 Activity Group in January 1999 to form the Conferencing over IP (CoIP) Activity Group. VoIP uses "VoIP Devices" as gateways to route voice data packets over the Internet or PSTN. Protocols such as SGCP and its successor MGCP extend VoIP to handle media other than voice data.
congressional record — (in the US) the government journal that publishes all proceedings of Congress
continental congress — the assembly of delegates from the North American rebel colonies held during and after the War of American Independence. It issued the Declaration of Independence (1776) and framed the Articles of Confederation (1777)
contradistinguishing — Present participle of contradistinguish.
controlling interest — a quantity of shares in a business that is sufficient to ensure control over its direction
convective discharge — the repulsion of ions of a gas by a highly charged body, creating a discernible wind.
convergent evolution — the evolutionary development of a superficial resemblance between unrelated animals that occupy a similar environment, as in the evolution of wings in birds and bats
core gender identity — a person's inner sense of being male or female, usually developed during early childhood as a result of parental rearing practices and societal influences and strengthened during puberty by hormonal changes.
corresponding angles — a pair of nonadjacent angles, one interior and one exterior, on the same side of a transversal: these paired angles are equal if the lines cut by the transversal are parallel
council-manager plan — (in the US) a system of local government with an elected legislative council and an appointed administrative manager
counter-intelligence — Counter-intelligence consists of actions that a country takes in order to find out whether another country is spying on it and to prevent it from doing so.
creative imagination — the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses.
criminal proceedings — action taken in a court to bring a criminal prosecution against someone
cross-country skiing — the activity of skiing across open country for pleasure
cut the gordian knot — to find a quick, bold solution for a perplexing problem
cutting-out scissors — a type of scissors used to cut out pieces of fabric for sewing
de facto segregation — racial, ethnic, or other segregation resulting from societal differences between groups, as socioeconomic or political disparity, without institutionalized legislation intended to segregate.
decompartmentalizing — Present participle of decompartmentalize.

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