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17-letter words containing o, l, i, g

  • establishing shot — Cinema
  • ethnomusicologist — A researcher in the field of ethnomusicology.
  • exfoliating cream — a granular cosmetic preparation that removes dead cells from the skin's surface
  • explosion welding — the welding of two parts forced together by a controlled explosion
  • explosive forming — a rapid method of forming a metal object in which components are made by subjecting the metal to very high pressures generated by a controlled explosion
  • facsimile catalog — a catalog that includes small reproductions of the items listed, as paintings, slides, designs, or the like.
  • falling diphthong — a diphthong in which the first of the two apparent vocalic elements is of greater stress or sonority and the second is of lesser stress or sonority, as in (ī), (ou), (oi), etc.
  • fear and loathing — (Hunter S. Thompson) A state inspired by the prospect of dealing with certain real-world systems and standards that are totally brain-damaged but ubiquitous - Intel 8086s, COBOL, EBCDIC, or any IBM machine except the Rios (also known as the RS/6000).
  • fee-paying school — a school which charges fees to parents of pupils
  • fingerling potato — a finger-shaped potato
  • fingertip control — control exercised through your fingertips, e.g. by touching a touchscreen
  • first-order logic — (language, logic)   The language describing the truth of mathematical formulas. Formulas describe properties of terms and have a truth value. The following are atomic formulas: True False p(t1,..tn) where t1,..,tn are terms and p is a predicate. If F1, F2 and F3 are formulas and v is a variable then the following are compound formulas: The "order" of a logic specifies what entities "For all" and "Exists" may quantify over. First-order logic can only quantify over sets of atomic propositions. (E.g. For all p . p => p). Second-order logic can quantify over functions on propositions, and higher-order logic can quantify over any type of entity. The sets over which quantifiers operate are usually implicit but can be deduced from well-formedness constraints. In first-order logic quantifiers always range over ALL the elements of the domain of discourse. By contrast, second-order logic allows one to quantify over subsets.
  • flagrante delicto — Law. in the very act of committing the offense.
  • flight of capital — When people lose confidence in a particular economy or market and withdraw their investment from it, you can refer to a flight of capital from that economy or market.
  • floating currency — a currency that is free to fluctuate against other currencies in accordance with market forces
  • floating dry dock — a dock that floats and can be lowered in the water for the entrance of a ship, and then raised for use as a dry dock
  • 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
  • flowering dogwood — a North American dogwood tree, Cornus florida, having small greenish flowers in the spring, surrounded by white or pink bracts that resemble petals: the state flower and the state tree of Virginia.
  • flowering tobacco — any plant belonging to the genus Nicotiana, of the nightshade family, as N. alata and N. sylvestris, having clusters of fragrant flowers that usually bloom at night, grown as an ornamental.
  • fluorescent light — a fluorescent lamp in domestic or commercial use; a fluorescent strip
  • folie de grandeur — a delusion of grandeur; megalomania.
  • football hooligan — a noisy violent football supporter
  • foreign relations — (used with a singular verb) the field of foreign affairs: an expert in foreign relations.
  • freewill offering — a voluntary religious contribution made in addition to what may be expected or required.
  • frostbite sailing — the sport of sailing in temperate latitudes during the winter despite cold weather.
  • 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.
  • function inlining — (programming)   Defining a member function's implementation within the class where it was also declared. This is usually reserved for small functions since the inline function must be re-compiled for every instance of the class.
  • 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.
  • galapagos islands — a group of 15 islands in the Pacific west of Ecuador, of which they form a province: discovered (1535) by the Spanish; main settlement on San Cristóbal. Pop: 18 640 (2001). Area: 7844 sq km (3028 sq miles)
  • garden heliotrope — the common valerian, Valeriana officinalis, especially when cultivated as an ornamental.
  • garlic mayonnaise — mayonnaise flavoured with garlic
  • genealogical tree — family tree.
  • general admission — an admission charge for unreserved seats at a theatrical performance, sports event, etc.
  • general sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
  • generalized other — an individual's internalized impression of societal norms and expectations.
  • genetic algorithm — (GA) An evolutionary algorithm which generates each individual from some encoded form known as a "chromosome" or "genome". Chromosomes are combined or mutated to breed new individuals. "Crossover", the kind of recombination of chromosomes found in sexual reproduction in nature, is often also used in GAs. Here, an offspring's chromosome is created by joining segments choosen alternately from each of two parents' chromosomes which are of fixed length. GAs are useful for multidimensional optimisation problems in which the chromosome can encode the values for the different variables being optimised.
  • geographical mile — nautical mile.
  • 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.
  • george whitefield — George, 1714–70, English Methodist evangelist.
  • gestatorial chair — a ceremonial chair on which the pope is carried
  • get one's jollies — to have fun or get pleasure; often, specif., from that which is cheap or disreputable
  • gi bill of rights — any of various Congressional bills enacted to provide funds for college educations, home-buying loans, and other benefits for armed-services veterans.
  • gigaelectron volt — one billion electron-volts. Abbreviation: GeV, Gev.
  • give someone hell — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
  • give to the world — to publish
  • glass box testing — white box testing
  • glastonbury chair — a folding chair having legs crossed front-to-back and having arms connected to the back and to the front seat rail.
  • globus hystericus — the sensation of having a lump in the throat or difficulty in swallowing for which no medical cause can be found.
  • glycosaminoglycan — any of a class of polysaccharides derived from hexosamine that form mucins when complexed with proteins: formerly called mucopolysaccharide.
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