13-letter words containing eg
- downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
- duck-egg blue — a pale greenish-blue colour
- duino elegies — a collection of ten poems (1923) by Rainer Maria Rilke.
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- easter egging — (jargon) (IBM, From the custom of the Easter Egg hunt observed in the US and many parts of Europe) The act of replacing unrelated components more or less at random in the hope that a malfunction will go away. Hackers consider this the normal operating mode of field circus techs and do not love them for it. Compare Easter egg, shotgun debugging.
- eggheadedness — the state of being an egghead
- eggs benedict — dish of poached eggs, ham and cream
- egocentricity — The quality of being egocentric.
- egomaniacally — In an egomaniacal manner.
- egotistically — In an egotistic manner.
- egregiousness — The quality of being egregious.
- egyptological — Alternative form of Egyptological.
- exit strategy — In politics and business, an exit strategy is a way of ending your involvement in a situation such as a military operation or a business arrangement.
- fast telegram — a type of domestic telegram sent at full rate with a minimum charge for 10 words or less and accepted for immediate delivery.
- foregrounding — Present participle of foreground.
- gateleg table — a table with one or two drop leaves that are supported when in use by a hinged leg swung out from the frame
- geostrategies — Plural form of geostrategy.
- geostrategist — A geopolitical strategist; one concerned with the strategies of political geography.
- give a leg up — to help to mount
- going begging — If you say that something is going begging, you mean that it is available but no one is using it or accepting it.
- gottlob frege — (person, history, philosophy, mathematics, logic, theory) (1848-1925) A mathematician who put mathematics on a new and more solid foundation. He purged mathematics of mistaken, sloppy reasoning and the influence of Pythagoras. Mathematics was shown to be a subdivision of formal logic.
- gram-negative — (of bacteria) not retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
- gregor mendel — Gregor Johann [greg-er yoh-hahn;; German grey-gawr yoh-hahn] /ˈgrɛg ər ˈyoʊ hɑn;; German ˈgreɪ gɔr ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1822–84, Austrian monk and botanist.
- half-integral — noting or pertaining to a fractional number obtained by dividing an odd integer by two, as 1/2.
- head register — the high register of the human voice.
- higher degree — a degree taken after your first undergraduate degree
- hypermegasoma — gigantism.
- illegal alien — a foreigner who has entered or resides in a country unlawfully or without the country's authorization.
- illegitimized — illegitimatize.
- illegitimizes — illegitimatize.
- inegalitarian — not egalitarian; lacking in or disdaining equality.
- integer vitae — blameless in life; innocent.
- integrability — capable of being integrated, as a mathematical function or differential equation.
- integral test — the theorem that a given infinite series converges if the function whose value at each integer is the corresponding term in the series is decreasing, tends to zero, and results in a finite number when integrated from one to infinity.
- integumentary — of, relating to, or like an integument.
- inter-segment — one of the parts into which something naturally separates or is divided; a division, portion, or section: a segment of an orange.
- internegative — a color negative of a color transparency, made for purposes of duplication.
- interregional — of or relating to a region of considerable extent; not merely local: a regional meeting of the Boy Scouts.
- intraregional — Within a region.
- irregularness — Quality of being irregular.
- juggling eggs — Keeping a lot of state in your head while modifying a program. "Don't bother me now, I'm juggling eggs", means that an interrupt is likely to result in the program's being scrambled. In the classic first-contact SF novel "The Mote in God's Eye", by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, an alien describes a very difficult task by saying "We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity." See also hack mode.
- kilomegacycle — a unit of frequency, equal to 10 9 cycles per second. Abbreviation: kMc.
- lake winnipeg — a lake in S Canada, in Manitoba: drains through the Nelson River into Hudson Bay. Area: 23 553 sq km (9094 sq miles)
- land registry — In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.
- leg-of-mutton — having the triangular shape of a leg of mutton: leg-of-mutton sail; a dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves.
- legacy system — (jargon) A computer system or application program which continues to be used because of the cost of replacing or redesigning it and often despite its poor competitiveness and compatibility with modern equivalents. The implication is that the system is large, monolithic and difficult to modify. If legacy software only runs on antiquated hardware the cost of maintaining this may eventually outweigh the cost of replacing both the software and hardware unless some form of emulation or backward compatibility allows the software to run on new hardware.
- legal adviser — a lawyer who gives advice
- legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
- legal holiday — a public holiday established by law, during which certain work, government business, etc., is restricted.
- legal offence — a crime that breaks a particular law and requires a particular punishment