14-letter words containing n, o, d, i, g, a
- fashion design — the activity of designing fashionable clothes
- finnbogadottir — Vigdís [Icelandic vig-dees] /Icelandic vɪgˈdis/ (Show IPA), born 1930, Icelandic political leader: president 1980–96.
- floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
- food labelling — the practice of providing nutritional information on labels on food packaging
- food rationing — the practice of having a fixed allowance of food, esp a statutory one for civilians in time of scarcity or soldiers in time of war
- food-gathering — procuring food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or roots, rather than by the cultivation of plants or the domestication of animals; foraging.
- forced landing — aircraft: emergency descent
- forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
- forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
- garda síochána — the police force of the Republic of Ireland
- gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- global dimming — a decrease in the amount of sunlight reaching the surface of the earth, believed to be caused by pollution in the atmosphere
- go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
- go into detail — elaborate, recount more fully
- gonadectomized — Having undergone gonadectomy.
- goncalves dias — Antonio [an-taw-nyoo] /ɛ̃ˈtɔ nyʊ/ (Show IPA), 1823–64, Brazilian poet.
- good samaritan — a person who gratuitously gives help or sympathy to those in distress. Luke 10:30–37.
- gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
- grade crossing — an intersection of a railroad track and another track, a road, etc., at the same level.
- graduation day — the day on which the ceremony is held at which university or college degrees and diplomas are conferred
- grand junction — a city in W Colorado.
- grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- gregorian mode — church mode.
- grid variation — the angle, at any point on the surface of the earth, between the magnetic and true meridians passing through that point.
- groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- height of land — a watershed
- highs and lows — If you refer to the highs and lows of someone's life or career, you are referring to both the successful or happy times, and the unsuccessful or bad times.
- huffman coding — (algorithm) A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
- hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- in a good seam — doing well, esp financially
- in good season — early enough
- indigenisation — Alternative spelling of indigenization.
- indigenization — to make indigenous.
- indoctrinating — Present participle of indoctrinate.
- infant prodigy — an exceptionally talented child
- intergradation — the act or process of intergrading or the state of being intergraded.
- inward-looking — person
- island-hopping — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
- lagoon islands — a former name of Tuvalu.
- landing beacon — a radio transmitter that emits a landing beam
- landing ground — airfield
- lead poisoning — Pathology. a toxic condition produced by ingestion, inhalation, or skin absorption of lead or lead compounds, resulting in various dose-related symptoms including anemia, nausea, muscle weakness, confusion, blindness, and coma. Also called plumbism, saturnism. this condition occurring in adults whose work involves contact with lead products.
- linkage editor — linker
- linkage-editor — a system program that combines independently compiled object modules or load modules into a single load module.
- load balancing — (operating system, parallel) Techniques which aim to spread tasks among the processors in a parallel processor to avoid some processors being idle while others have tasks queueing for execution. Load balancing may be performed either by heavily loaded processors (with many tasks in their queues) sending tasks to other processors; by idle processors requesting work from others; by some centralised task distribution mechanism; or some combination of these. Some systems allow tasks to be moved after they have started executing ("task migration") others do not. It is important that the overhead of executing the load balancing algorithm does not contribute significantly to the overall processing or communications load. Distributed scheduling algorithms may be static, dynamic or preemptive. Static algorithms allocate processes to processors at run time while taking no account of current network load. Dynamic algorithms are more flexible, though more computationally expensive, and give some consideration to the network load before allocating the new process to a processor. Preemptive algorithms are more expensive and flexible still, and may migrate running processes from one host to another if deemed beneficial. Research to date indicates that dynamic algorithms yield significant performance benefits, but that further (though lesser) gains may be had through the addition of process migration facilities.
- longitudinally — of or relating to longitude or length: longitudinal measurement.