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18-letter words containing g, s, l

  • on the danger list — critically ill in hospital
  • organic solidarity — social cohesiveness that is based on division of labor and interdependence and is characteristic of complex, industrial societies.
  • oscillating engine — a steam engine having piston rods connected directly to the crankshaft and cylinders oscillating on trunnions.
  • oscillographically — By means of oscillography.
  • owen stanley range — a mountain range in SE New Guinea. Highest peak: Mount Victoria, 4073 m (13 363 ft)
  • paleoclimatologist — the branch of paleogeography dealing with the study of paleoclimates.
  • palm beach gardens — a city in SE Florida, near North Palm Beach.
  • parathyroid glands — any of several small oval glands usually lying near or embedded in the thyroid gland.
  • passing modulation — a modulation of a temporary nature.
  • pedal steel guitar — an oblong, floor-mounted electrified guitar, usually having ten strings, fretted with a steel bar and producing a wailing sound that is modulated by use of a foot pedal.
  • pemphigus vulgaris — a potentially fatal blistering skin disease, characterized by large blisters on the skin, mucous membranes of the mouth, genitals, intestines, etc, which eventually rupture and form painful denuded areas from which critical amounts of bodily protein, fluid, and blood may be lost
  • percussion flaking — a method of forming a flint tool by striking flakes from a stone core with another stone or a piece of bone or wood.
  • percussion welding — a form of resistance welding in which the required pressure is provided by a hammerlike blow.
  • perennial ryegrass — any of several European grasses of the genus Lolium, as L. perenne (perennial ryegrass) grown for forage in the U.S.
  • personal bodyguard — a person employed to protect a particular person
  • personal organizer — a small notebook with sections for personal information, as dates and addresses.
  • phantasmagorically — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
  • photochemical smog — air pollution containing ozone and other reactive chemical compounds formed by the action of sunlight on nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons, especially those in automobile exhaust.
  • physical geography — the branch of geography concerned with natural features and phenomena of the earth's surface, as landforms, drainage features, climates, soils, and vegetation.
  • pilgrim's progress — an allegory (1678) by John Bunyan.
  • pilotless ignition — a system for igniting a gas burner, as in a gas range, furnace, or boiler, without the use of a pilot light.
  • pine tree shilling — a silver coin minted in Massachusetts in the mid to late 17th century, named for the pine tree within a circle shown on the obverse side.
  • plains grasshopper — a large, destructive short-horned grasshopper, Brachystola magna, of the western U.S., marked by pinkish hind wings.
  • plate-glass window — a window that has glass which has been formed by rolling
  • play silly buggers — to fool around and waste time
  • plight one's troth — to make a promise of marriage
  • point set topology — topology (def 2).
  • population figures — population totals; statistics relating to the size of populations
  • positively charged — having a positive charge
  • postal storage car — a railroad car for transporting unsorted mail.
  • postmaster general — the executive head of the postal system of a country.
  • pre-filled syringe — A pre-filled syringe is a disposable syringe that is supplied already loaded with the substance to be injected.
  • precedence lossage — /pre's*-dens los'*j/ A misunderstanding of operator precedence resulting in unintended grouping of arithmetic or logical operators when coding an expression. Used especially of mistakes in C code due to the nonintuitively low precedence of "&", "|", "^", "<<" and ">>". For example, the following C expression, intended to test the least significant bit of x, x & 1 == 0 is parsed as x & (1 == 0) which is always zero (false). Some lazy programmers ignore precedence and parenthesise everything. Lisp fans enjoy pointing out that this can't happen in *their* favourite language, which eschews precedence entirely, requiring one to use explicit parentheses everywhere.
  • prerelease showing — a showing of a film before it goes on general release
  • process scheduling — multitasking
  • programming skills — the skills required to write a program so that data may be processed by a computer
  • psychogalvanometer — a type of galvanometer for detecting and measuring psychogalvanic currents.
  • psychopathological — the science or study of mental disorders.
  • psychopharmacology — the branch of pharmacology dealing with the psychological effects of drugs.
  • psychosociological — psychological and sociological
  • psychotechnologist — a specialist in psychotechnology
  • publishing company — a firm which publishes books
  • pull someone's leg — either of the two lower limbs of a biped, as a human being, or any of the paired limbs of an animal, arthropod, etc., that support and move the body.
  • quevedo y villegas — Francisco Gómez de. 1580–1645, Spanish poet and writer, noted for his satires and the picaresque novel La historia de la vida del Buscón (1626)
  • racial segregation — social policy: separation of races
  • range of stability — the angle to the perpendicular through which a vessel may be heeled without losing the ability to right itself.
  • rear its ugly head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • red-light district — an area or district in a city in which many houses of prostitution are located.
  • regional enteritis — Crohn's disease.
  • registration plate — a plate mounted on the front and back of a motor vehicle bearing the registration number
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