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17-letter words containing g, u, r

  • dining room suite — a set of furniture used in a dining room
  • distributed logic — a computer system in which remote terminals and electronic devices, distributed throughout the system, supplement the main computer by doing some of the computing or decision making
  • do your own thing — If you do your own thing, you live, act, or behave in the way you want to, without paying attention to convention or depending on other people.
  • double gloucester — a type of smooth orange-red cheese of mild flavour
  • douglas engelbart — (person)   Douglas C. Engelbart, the inventor of the mouse. On 1968-12-09, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California, USA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the on live system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The presentation was a session in the of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse, hypertext, object addressing, dynamic file linking and shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface. The original 90-minute video: Hyperlinks, Mouse, Web-board.
  • douglas macarthur — Douglas, 1880–1964, U.S. general: supreme commander of allied forces in SW Pacific during World War II and of UN forces in Korea 1950–51.
  • drinking fountain — a water fountain that ejects a jet of water for drinking without a cup.
  • droit du seigneur — the supposed right claimable by a feudal lord to have sexual relations with the bride of a vassal on her first night of marriage.
  • electrometallurgy — metallurgy involving the use of electric-arc furnaces, electrolysis, and other electrical operations
  • enrolment figures — the numbers of people enrolling at an institution, on a course, etc
  • equatorial guinea — a republic of W Africa, consisting of Río Muni on the mainland and the island of Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea, with four smaller islands: ceded by Portugal to Spain in 1778; gained independence in 1968. Official languages: Spanish and French. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: franc. Capital: Malabo. Pop: 704 000 (2013 est). Area: 28 049 sq km (10 830 sq miles)
  • error of judgment — a wrong or bad decision
  • facts and figures — details; precise information
  • farming community — a community where farming is the main industry
  • figure-eight knot — a kind of knot
  • fire extinguisher — a portable container, usually filled with special chemicals for putting out a fire.
  • fire-extinguisher — a portable container, usually filled with special chemicals for putting out a fire.
  • first-degree burn — a burned place or area: a burn where fire had ripped through the forest.
  • flight instrument — any instrument used to indicate the altitude, attitude, airspeed, drift, or direction of an aircraft.
  • floating currency — a currency that is free to fluctuate against other currencies in accordance with market forces
  • flowering currant — an ornamental shrub, Ribes sanguineum, growing to 2 to 3 metres (6 to 9ft) in height, with red, crimson, yellow, or white flowers: family Saxifragaceae
  • fluorescent light — a fluorescent lamp in domestic or commercial use; a fluorescent strip
  • folie de grandeur — a delusion of grandeur; megalomania.
  • forcing frequency — the frequency of an oscillating force applied to a system
  • four-star general — high-ranking military officer
  • freight insurance — insurance paid on goods in transport
  • frequency polygon — a frequency curve consisting of connected line segments formed by joining the midpoints of the upper edges of the rectangles in a histogram whose class intervals are of uniform length.
  • full linear group — the group of all nonsingular linear transformations mapping a finite-dimensional vector space into itself.
  • gamma-ray burster — a source of gamma-ray bursts
  • gastrojejunostomy — See under gastroenterostomy.
  • gaucher's disease — a rare inherited disorder of fat metabolism that causes spleen and liver enlargement, abnormal fragility and pain of the bones, and progressive neurologic disturbances, leading to early death.
  • gause's principle — the principle that similar species cannot coexist for long in the same ecological niche
  • general insurance — insurance (such as house insurance and car insurance) that does not insure someone's life
  • geological survey — U.S. Government. a division of the Department of the Interior, created in 1879, that studies the nation's water and mineral resources, makes topographic surveys, and classifies and leases public lands.
  • germanicus caesar — 15 b.c.–a.d. 19, Roman general.
  • get a rise out of — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
  • glastonbury chair — a folding chair having legs crossed front-to-back and having arms connected to the back and to the front seat rail.
  • globus hystericus — the sensation of having a lump in the throat or difficulty in swallowing for which no medical cause can be found.
  • gnu privacy guard —
  • go to the country — If a head of government or a government goes to the country, they hold a general election.
  • graduated pension — the money that an employee receives after retirement if they have paid into the graduated pension scheme
  • grand touring car — GT (def 2).
  • grand union canal — a canal in S England linking London and the Midlands: opened in 1801
  • grande chartreuse — the Carthusian monastery at Grenoble, France: the chief monastery of the Carthusians until 1903.
  • grapefruit league — a series of training games played by major-league teams before the opening of the season (so named because they take place in the citrus-growing South, as in Florida).
  • graphic equalizer — an equalizer in an audio system that is controlled by sliders that show graphically and correct the frequency response within the preset frequency range.
  • great namaqualand — an arid coastal region in the S part of Namibia, extending into the Cape of Good Hope province of the Republic of South Africa, divided by the Orange River into two regions, one in Namibia (Great Namaqualand) the other in South Africa (Little Namaqualand) inhabited by the Nama.
  • green june beetle — a large, greenish scarab beetle, Cotinis nitida, of the southern U.S.
  • greenhouse effect — an atmospheric heating phenomenon, caused by short-wave solar radiation being readily transmitted inward through the earth's atmosphere but longer-wavelength heat radiation less readily transmitted outward, owing to its absorption by atmospheric carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, and other gases; thus, the rising level of carbon dioxide is viewed with concern.
  • greenland current — the ocean current flowing clockwise around S Greenland.
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