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19-letter words containing g, y, u

  • aggravated burglary — a burglary made more serious by its violent circumstances
  • allegheny mountains — a mountain range in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia: part of the Appalachian system; rising from 600 m (2000 ft) to over 1440 m (4800 ft)
  • as long as your arm — If you say that a list is as long as your arm, you are emphasizing that it is very long.
  • beggar-my-neighbour — a card game in which one player tries to win all the cards of the other player
  • bellybutton surgery — laparoscopy.
  • beta-naphthyl group — See under naphthyl.
  • blowing your buffer — (jargon)   Losing your train of thought. A reference to buffer overflow.
  • bright young things — young, fun-loving, fashionable upper-class people, esp of the 1920s
  • bug tracking system — (programming)   (BTS) A system for receiving and filing bugs reported against a software project, and tracking those bugs until they are fixed. Most major software projects have their own BTS, the source code of which is often available for use by other projects. Well known BTSs include GNATS, Bugzilla, and Debbugs.
  • buy a pig in a poke — to buy, get, or agree to something without sight or knowledge of it in advance
  • canterbury pilgrims — the pilgrims whose stories are told in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
  • champigny-sur-marne — a suburb of Paris, on the River Marne. Pop: 75 556 (2006)
  • circulating library — a small library circulated in turn to a group of schools or other institutions
  • community programme — (in Britain) a former government scheme to provide temporary work for people unemployed for over a year
  • computed tomography — computerized axial tomography. Abbreviation: CT.
  • convergent boundary — a major geologic discontinuity or suture marking the juncture of lithospheric plates that have been joined by plate tectonics.
  • countervailing duty — an extra import duty imposed by a country on certain imports, esp to prevent dumping or to counteract subsidies in the exporting country
  • debugging by printf — (programming)   The debugging technique where the programmer inserts print statements into a program so that when run the program leaves a "trail of breadcrumbs" allowing him to see which parts were executed. The information output may just be a short string to indicate that a particular point in the code has been reached or it might be a complete stack trace. The output typically just goes to the window or terminal in which the program is running or may be written to a log file.
  • deficiency judgment — a judgment in favor of a mortgagee for the remainder of a debt not completely cleared by foreclosure and sale of the mortgaged property
  • dry-bulk cargo ship — a ship that carries an unpackaged dry cargo such as coal or grain; bulk carrier
  • evaluation strategy — reduction strategy
  • feel strongly about — to have decided opinions concerning
  • for crying out loud — exasperation
  • free alongside quay — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the quay without charge to the buyer
  • give your eye teeth — If you say that you would give your eye teeth for something, you mean that you want it very much and you would do anything to get it.
  • go out of one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • godfrey of bouillon — (Duke of Lower Lorraine) 1060?–1100, French leader of the First Crusade 1096–99.
  • goes without saying — If something goes without saying, it is obvious.
  • gray-cheeked thrush — a North American thrush, Catharus minimus, having olive upper parts and grayish cheeks.
  • green mountain boys — the members of the armed bands of Vermont organized in 1770 to oppose New York's territorial claims. Under Ethan Allen they won fame in the War of American Independence
  • greenhouse whitefly — See under whitefly.
  • high-bush cranberry — cranberry bush
  • humanist technology — (philosophy)   Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.
  • hypersuggestibility — subject to or easily influenced by suggestion.
  • introduction agency — a company whose business is to match romantic partners for a fee
  • it serves you right — If you say it serves someone right when something unpleasant happens to them, you mean that it is their own fault and you have no sympathy for them.
  • judgment by default — a judgment in the plaintiff's favour when the defendant fails to plead or to appear
  • kingdom of burgundy — a kingdom in E France, established in the early 6th century ad, eventually including the later duchy of Burgundy, Franche-Comté, and the Kingdom of Provence: known as the Kingdom of Arles from the 13th century
  • language laboratory — a special room or rooms with sound-recording and -reproducing equipment for use by students to practice speaking foreign languages, usually with an instructor monitoring the program.
  • longitudinal parity — (storage, communications)   An extra byte (or word) appended to a block of data in order to reveal corruption of the data. Bit n of this byte indicates whether there was an even or odd number of "1" bits in bit position n of the bytes in the block. The parity byte is computed by XORing the data bytes in the block. Longitudinal parity allows single bit errors to be detected.
  • lose your virginity — When you lose your virginity, you have sex for the first time.
  • magnesium hydroxide — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, Mg(OH) 2 , used chiefly in medicine as an antacid and as a laxative.
  • maximum maytag mode — (storage, humour)   (From the US brand of washing machine) What a washing machine or, by extension, any hard disk is in when it's being used so heavily that it's shaking like an old Maytag with an unbalanced load. If prolonged for any length of time, can lead to disks becoming walking drives.
  • modulus of rigidity — shear modulus.
  • negation by failure — An extralogical feature of Prolog and other logic programming languages in which failure of unification is treated as establishing the negation of a relation. For example, if Ronald Reagan is not in our database and we asked if he was an American, Prolog would answer "no".
  • neuropathologically — In a neuropathologic way.
  • nonproprietary drug — A nonproprietary drug is a generic drug that is essentially similar to a drug with a brand name.
  • orthopaedic surgery — surgery concerned with disorders of the spine and joints and the repair of deformities of these parts
  • outplacement agency — an agency that provides counselling and careers advice, esp to redundant executives, which is paid for by their previous employer
  • pecuniary advantage — financial advantage that is dishonestly obtained by deception and that constitutes a criminal offence

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