15-letter words containing l, o, g, a, r, i
- commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
- configurability — The property of being configurable.
- configurational — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
- congelifraction — the shattering or splitting of rock or frozen soil due to the action of frost.
- conglomerations — Plural form of conglomeration.
- congratulations — You say 'Congratulations' to someone in order to congratulate them on something nice that has happened to them or something good that they have done.
- congressionally — of or relating to a congress.
- controller gain — In a control loop, the controller gain is the strength of action a controller will take at a particular point below or above the setpoint.
- coolgardie safe — a cupboard with wetted hessian walls for keeping food cool: used esp in Australia
- counteractingly — In a way that counteracts.
- counterclaiming — Present participle of counterclaim.
- counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
- cracked gas oil — Cracked gas oil is a gas oil which is formed as one of the products of a gas reaction.
- crawling horror — (jargon) Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site. Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity. "Mostly we code new stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror." Compare WOMBAT.
- cricopharyngeal — of, relating to, or involving the cricoid cartilage and the pharynx.
- critical region — that part of a statistical distribution in which the probability of a given hypothesis is less than the chosen significance level, so that the hypothesis would be rejected
- crossing patrol — a person who holds up the traffic so that school children can cross the road safely
- crustaceologist — One who studies crustaceology.
- cryptographical — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
- cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
- cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
- de broglie wave — a hypothetical wave associated with the motion of a particle of atomic or subatomic size that describes effects such as the diffraction of beams of particles by crystals.
- deagglomeration — Deagglomeration is the process of breaking up agglomerates.
- deglamorization — the act or process of making less glamorous
- demographically — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
- depersonalizing — Present participle of depersonalize.
- dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
- diagonal matrix — a square matrix in which all the entries except those along the diagonal from upper left to lower right are zero.
- direction angle — an angle made by a given vector and a coordinate axis.
- double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
- egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
- electromagnetic — Of or relating to the interrelation of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
- electronegative — Electrically negative.
- electronic game — any of various small handheld computerized games, usually battery-operated, having a small screen on which graphics are displayed and buttons to operate the game
- electrosurgical — Relating to electrosurgery.
- embryologically — Regarding embryology.
- endocrine gland — anatomy: hormone-secreting gland
- english sparrow — a small Eurasian weaverbird, Passer domesticus, now established in North America and Australia. It has a brown streaked plumage with grey underparts
- epeirogenically — in the manner of epeirogeny
- erythromelalgia — A rare neurovascular peripheral pain disorder in which blood vessels, usually in the lower extremities or hands, are episodically blocked, then become hyperemic and inflamed.
- family grouping — a system, used usually in the infant school, of grouping children of various ages together, esp for project work
- fantasmagorical — Alternative form of phantasmagorical.
- fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
- flamingo-flower — a central American plant, Anthurium scherzeranum, of the arum family, having a red, coiled spadix and a bright red, shiny, heart-shaped spathe, grown as an ornamental.
- flapping router — (networking) A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
- floating charge — an unsecured charge on the assets of an enterprise that allows such assets to be used commercially until the enterprise ceases to operate or the creditor intervenes to demand collateral
- floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
- flowering maple — any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Abutilon, of the mallow family, having large, bright-colored flowers.
- flowering plant — a plant that produces flowers, fruit, and seeds; angiosperm.
- fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.