16-letter words containing i, g, u, a
- circuit training — Circuit training is a type of physical training in which you do a series of different exercises, each for a few minutes.
- circular sailing — a method of navigation in which the curvature of the earth is taken into consideration.
- circumambulating — Present participle of circumambulate.
- circumnavigating — Present participle of circumnavigate.
- circumnavigation — to sail or fly around; make the circuit of by navigation: to circumnavigate the earth.
- circumnavigatory — Pertaining to circumnavigation.
- cleaning product — a detergent or other household cleaner
- cleansing tissue — a small piece of absorbent paper, used especially for removing cleansing cream and cosmetics and also serving as a disposable handkerchief.
- cleanup campaign — an organized programme to clean up a place, typically organized at a local or regional level
- closing argument — In a court case, a lawyer's closing argument is their final speech, in which they give a summary of their case.
- cocktail sausage — a small sausage served with drinks
- columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- combination drug — a medication comprised of set dosages of two or more separate drugs.
- command guidance — a method of controlling a missile during flight by transmitting information to it
- community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
- configurationism — Gestalt psychology
- congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
- consanguineously — In a consanguineous fashion; by blood relationship.
- consenting adult — a male person over the age of sixteen, who may legally engage in homosexual behaviour in private
- contagious magic — magic that attempts to affect a person through something once connected with him or her, as a shirt once worn by the person or a footprint left in the sand; a branch of sympathetic magic based on the belief that things once in contact are in some way permanently so, however separated physically they may subsequently become.
- cottage industry — A cottage industry is a small business that is run from someone's home, especially one that involves a craft such as knitting or pottery.
- counterattacking — Present participle of counterattack.
- counterbalancing — Present participle of counterbalance.
- counterespionage — Counterespionage is the same as counterintelligence.
- counterguerrilla — (of operations, conflicts, etc) conducted against guerrillas
- countermigration — a migration in the opposite direction.
- countersignature — second signature
- currency trading — the business of trading in different currencies in order to profit from exchange rate differentials
- data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
- david g farragut — David Glasgow, 1801–70, U.S. admiral: won the battles of New Orleans and Mobile Bay for the Union in the U.S. Civil War.
- departure signal — a piece of equipment beside a railway which indicates to train drivers whether they should depart or not
- diazoamino group — the divalent group –N=NNH–.
- digital computer — a computer that processes information in digital form.
- dinosaurs mating — (humour) The activity said to occur when yet another big iron merger or buy-out occurs; reflects a perception by hackers that these signal another stage in the long, slow dying of the mainframe industry. Also described as "elephants mating": lots of noise and action at a high level, with an eventual outcome in the somewhat distant future. In its glory days of the 1960s, it was "IBM and the Seven Dwarves": Burroughs, Control Data, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR, RCA, and Univac. Early on, RCA sold out to Univac and GE also sold out, and it was "IBM and the BUNCH" (an acronym for Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell) for a while. Honeywell was bought out by Bull. Univac in turn merged with Sperry to form Sperry/Univac, which was later merged (although the employees of Sperry called it a hostile takeover) with Burroughs to form Unisys in 1986 (this was when the phrase "dinosaurs mating" was coined). In 1991 AT&T absorbed NCR, only to spit it out again in 1996. Unisys bought Convergent Technologies in 1988 and later others. More such earth-shaking unions of doomed giants seem inevitable.
- discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
- discountenancing — Present participle of discountenance.
- document imaging — the process of converting paper documents into an electronic or digital format
- double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
- drug trafficking — smuggling illegal drugs
- 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.
- dutch guinea pig — a breed of two-tone short-haired guinea pig
- dutch new guinea — a former name of Irian Jaya.
- dynamic language — (language) (Dylan) A simple object-oriented Lisp dialect, most closely resembling CLOS and Scheme, developed by Advanced Technology Group East at Apple Computer. See also Marlais.
- eager evaluation — Any evaluation strategy where evaluation of some or all function arguments is started before their value is required. A typical example is call-by-value, where all arguments are passed evaluated. The opposite of eager evaluation is call-by-need where evaluation of an argument is only started when it is required. The term "speculative evaluation" is very close in meaning to eager evaluation but is applied mostly to parallel architectures whereas eager evaluation is used of both sequential and parallel evaluators. Eager evaluation does not specify exactly when argument evaluation takes place - it might be done fully speculatively (all redexes in the program reduced in parallel) or may be done by the caller just before the function is entered. The term "eager evaluation" was invented by Carl Hewitt and Henry Baker <[email protected]> and used in their paper ["The Incremental Garbage Collection of Processes", Sigplan Notices, Aug 1977. ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/Futures.html]. It was named after their "eager beaver" evaluator. See also conservative evaluation, lenient evaluation, strict evaluation.
- east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- el camino bignum — (humour) /el' k*-mee'noh big'nuhm/ The road mundanely called El Camino Real, a road through the San Francisco peninsula that originally extended all the way down to Mexico City and many portions of which are still intact. Navigation on the San Francisco peninsula is usually done relative to El Camino Real, which defines logical north and south even though it isn't really north-south many places. El Camino Real runs right past Stanford University. The Spanish word "real" (which has two syllables: /ray-al'/) means "royal"; El Camino Real is "the royal road". In the Fortran language, a "real" quantity is a number typically precise to seven significant digits, and a "double precision" quantity is a larger floating-point number, precise to perhaps fourteen significant digits (other languages have similar "real" types). When a hacker from MIT visited Stanford in 1976, he remarked what a long road El Camino Real was. Making a pun on "real", he started calling it "El Camino Double Precision" - but when the hacker was told that the road was hundreds of miles long, he renamed it "El Camino Bignum", and that name has stuck. (See bignum).
- elegiac quatrain — a poetic stanza consisting of four lines of iambic pentameter rhyming alternately.
- equational logic — (logic) First-order equational logic consists of quantifier-free terms of ordinary first-order logic, with equality as the only predicate symbol. The model theory of this logic was developed into Universal algebra by Birkhoff et al. [Birkhoff, Gratzer, Cohn]. It was later made into a branch of category theory by Lawvere ("algebraic theories").
- facial neuralgia — paroxysmal darting pain and muscular twitching in the face, evoked by rubbing certain points of the face.