17-letter words containing l, u, g, e
- complex-conjugate — one of a group of conjugate words.
- computer language — programming language
- concurrent prolog — (language) A Prolog variant with guarded clauses and committed-choice nondeterminism (don't-care nondeterminism) by Ehud "Udi" Shapiro, Yale <[email protected]>. A subset has been implemented, but not the full language. See also Mandala.
- consulate general — the office or residence of a consul general
- consumer sampling — a research technique in which targeted consumers are polled or tested for their receptiveness to a product or service
- contrasuggestible — responding or tending to respond to a suggestion by doing or believing the opposite
- counterchallenges — Plural form of counterchallenge.
- country gentleman — a rich man with an estate in the country
- cruciate ligament — A cruciate ligament is either of a pair of ligaments that cross at the knee.
- cultural exchange — an exchange of students, artists, athletes, etc., between two countries to promote mutual understanding.
- cumulative voting — a system of voting in which each elector has as many votes as there are candidates in his constituency. Votes may all be cast for one candidate or distributed among several
- cytomegaloviruses — Plural form of cytomegalovirus.
- dagestan republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
- daughter language — a language that has evolved from another specified language.
- debt rescheduling — the process of changing the time frame or deadline for the repayment of debt, usually to ease the burden on the debtor
- decontextualizing — to remove (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) from a context: decontextualized works of art displayed in museums.
- defending counsel — a barrister who defends a client in a trial
- deindustrializing — Present participle of deindustrialize.
- digital audiotape — a cassette containing magnetic tape used for high-fidelity digital recording or playback of audio. Abbreviation: DAT.
- digital signature — an encrypted digital code appended to an electronic document to verify that it was created by a known source and has not been altered.
- disadvantageously — In a disadvantageous manner.
- 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
- 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.
- down the plughole — If you say that something has gone down the plughole, you mean that it has failed or has been lost or wasted.
- 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)
- equivalent weight — the weight of an element or compound that will combine with or displace 8 grams of oxygen or 1.007 97 grams of hydrogen
- ethnomusicologist — A researcher in the field of ethnomusicology.
- flight instrument — any instrument used to indicate the altitude, attitude, airspeed, drift, or direction of an aircraft.
- flight lieutenant — A flight lieutenant is an officer of middle rank in the British air force.
- flight supplement — an additional charge payable on the price of an air ticket
- 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.
- four-star general — high-ranking military officer
- 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.
- fulgencio batista — Fulgencio [fool-hen-syaw] /fulˈhɛn syɔ/ (Show IPA), (Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar) 1901–73, Cuban military leader: dictator of Cuba 1934–40; president 1940–44, 1952–59.
- full linear group — the group of all nonsingular linear transformations mapping a finite-dimensional vector space into itself.
- functional change — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
- fuzzy-wuzzy angel — any native of Papua New Guinea who assisted as a stretcher-bearer in World War II
- galactic latitude — the angular distance from the galactic equator of a point on the celestial sphere.
- 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.
- globus hystericus — the sensation of having a lump in the throat or difficulty in swallowing for which no medical cause can be found.
- 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.