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16-letter words containing l, a, g

  • 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
  • clearsightedness — The property of being clearsighted.
  • climatologically — In climatological terms.
  • cloak-and-dagger — A cloak-and-dagger activity is one which involves mystery and secrecy.
  • 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
  • coleridge-taylor — Samuel. 1875–1912, British composer, best known for his trilogy of oratorios Song of Hiawatha (1898–1900)
  • collagen disease — any of a group of diseases, as systemic lupus erythematosus, polyarteritis, scleroderma, and rheumatoid arthritis, involving inflammation or degeneration of connective tissue and accompanied by deposition of fibrinous material.
  • college graduate — a student who has recently graduated from college
  • colonial heights — a town in central Virginia.
  • colorado springs — a city and resort in central Colorado. Pop: 370 448 (2003 est)
  • columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • come/bring alive — If a story or description comes alive, it becomes interesting, lively, or realistic. If someone or something brings it alive, they make it seem more interesting, lively, or realistic.
  • command language — the language used to access a computer system
  • common logarithm — a logarithm to the base ten. Usually written log or log10
  • complexing agent — an intricate or complicated association or assemblage of related things, parts, units, etc.: the entire complex of our educational system; an apartment complex.
  • congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
  • congressionalist — of or relating to a congress.
  • 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
  • constant folding — (compiler)   A compiler optimisation technique where constant subexpressions are evaluated at compile time. This is usually only applied to built-in numerical and boolean operators whereas partial evaluation is more general in that expressions involving user-defined functions may also be evaluated at compile time.
  • contingency plan — a plan to be carried out if a more likely or desired outcome does not happen
  • contract killing — a murder carried out in fulfilment of a contract
  • control language — (language)   (CL) The batch language for IBM RPG/38, used in conjunction with RPG III. See also OCL.
  • corporal's guard — a squad commanded by a corporal
  • correcting plate — a thin lens used to correct incoming light rays in special forms of reflecting telescopes.
  • cottage hospital — a small rural hospital
  • counterbalancing — Present participle of counterbalance.
  • counterchallenge — A challenge made in response to another challenge.
  • counterguerrilla — (of operations, conflicts, etc) conducted against guerrillas
  • critical damping — the minimum amount of viscous damping that results in a displaced system returning to its original position without oscillation
  • cryptozoological — (cryptozoology) Of or pertaining to cryptozoology.
  • crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
  • crystallographic — of, relating to, or dealing with crystals or crystallography.
  • d-glyceraldehyde — an isomer of glyceraldehyde in which the OH group is on the right side of the asymmetric carbon atom.
  • dafydd ap gwilym — ?1320–?1380, Welsh poet
  • dangling pointer — (programming)   A reference that doesn't actually lead anywhere. In C and some other languages, a pointer that doesn't actually point at anything valid. Usually this happens because it formerly pointed to something that has moved or disappeared, e.g. a heap-allocated block which has been freed and reused. Used as jargon in a generalisation of its technical meaning; for example, a local phone number for a person who has since moved is a dangling pointer.
  • daylight robbery — If someone charges you a great deal of money for something and you think this is unfair or unreasonable, you can refer to this as daylight robbery.
  • de broglie waves — the set of waves that represent the behaviour of an elementary particle, or some atoms and molecules, under certain conditions. The de Broglie wavelength, λ, is given by λ = h/mv, where h is the Planck constant, m the mass, and v the velocity of the particle
  • de morgan's laws — (in formal logic and set theory) the principles that conjunction and disjunction, or union and intersection, are dual. Thus the negation of P & Q is equivalent to not-P or not-Q
  • de-anglicization — (in Ireland) the elimination of English influence, language, customs, etc
  • dead man walking — a condemned man walking from his prison cell to a place of execution
  • deflationary gap — a situation in which total spending in an economy is insufficient to buy all the output that can be produced with full employment
  • delaying tactics — techniques used to delay sth
  • delegitimization — The act or process of delegitimizing.
  • dental hygienist — a dentist's assistant skilled in dental hygiene
  • deoxyhaemoglobin — (biochemistry) The form of haemoglobin that has released its oxygen.
  • departure lounge — In an airport, the departure lounge is the place where passengers wait before they get onto their plane.
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