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15-letter words containing ile

  • accounting file — (operating system)   A file which holds records of the resources used by individual jobs. These records are used to regulate, and calculate charges for, resources. An entry is opened in the accounting file as each job begins.
  • acoustical tile — tile made in various sizes and textures from soft, usually fibrous, sound-absorbing material, as wood, cork, or metal, and typically applied to ceilings or walls.
  • boiled dressing — a cooked salad dressing thickened with egg yolks and often containing mustard.
  • boiled potatoes — potatoes, usually peeled, cooked in boiling water
  • cantilever beam — a long thick straight-sided piece of wood, metal, concrete, etc that is fixed at one end and is free at the other
  • chemical toilet — a toilet in which waste is treated with chemicals
  • chile con carne — chili con carne
  • chile saltpeter — sodium nitrate, esp. as found naturally in Chile and Peru
  • chile saltpetre — a naturally occurring form of sodium nitrate: a soluble white or colourless mineral occurring in arid regions, esp in Chile and Peru
  • cone of silence — a space, in the shape of an inverted cone, above a radio beacon, in which there is a sharp reduction in the intensity of transmitted signals.
  • crocodile river — a river in N South Africa, rising north of Johannesburg and flowing north-westerly into the Marico River on the Botswanan border; a tributary of the Limpopo
  • crocodile tears — If someone is crying crocodile tears, their tears and sadness are not genuine or sincere.
  • diamond jubilee — A diamond jubilee is the sixtieth anniversary of an important event.
  • eau de toilette — toilet water.
  • facile princeps — an obvious leader
  • file descriptor — (programming, operating system)   An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
  • file management — the work of organizing and arranging files in a computer
  • filemaker, inc. — (company)   The company that distributes the FileMaker database. FileMaker, Inc. was previously known as Claris and was renamed after a restructuring in January 1998.
  • free-tailed bat — any of various small, swift, insect-eating bats of the family Molossidae, common in warm climates, having thick, leathery ears and a tail that projects well beyond the tail membrane.
  • galileo galilei — (Galileo Galilei) 1564–1642, Italian physicist and astronomer.
  • grecian profile — a profile distinguished by the absence of the hollow between the upper ridge of the nose and the forehead, thereby forming a straight line.
  • half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section
  • hard-boiled egg — egg boiled until the yolk is set
  • hostile witness — a witness who gives evidence against the party calling him
  • irreconcileable — Alternative spelling of irreconcilable.
  • irreconcilement — the quality or state of being unreconciled
  • long-tailed tit — a small European songbird, Aegithalos caudatus, with a black, white, and pink plumage and a very long tail: family Paridae (tits)
  • matrix compiler — Early matrix computations on UNIVAC. Sammet 1969, p.642.
  • microaerophiles — Plural form of microaerophile.
  • miles and miles — a long distance
  • miles gloriosus — a braggart soldier, esp as a stock figure in comedy
  • missile address — ICBM address
  • native compiler — (programming, tool)   A compiler which runs on the computer for which it is producing machine code, in contrast to a cross-compiler, which produces code for a different computer.
  • once in a while — at one time in the past; formerly: I was a farmer once; a once powerful nation.
  • over-privileged — having too many advantages or opportunities compared to others.
  • paedophile ring — a group of people who take part in illegal sexual activity involving children
  • red-tailed hawk — a North American hawk, Buteo jamaicensis, dark brown above, whitish with black streaking below, and having a reddish-brown tail.
  • senile dementia — a syndrome of progressive, irreversible impairment of cognitive function, caused by organic factors and having its onset late in life.
  • silent majority — the U.S. citizens who supported President Nixon's policies but who were not politically vocal, outspoken, or active: considered by him to constitute a majority.
  • single-cut file — a file with teeth in one direction only: used for filing soft material
  • soft-boiled egg — boiled egg with runny yolk
  • suspension file — a folder for documents that has protruding ends that can be hung over rails for storage
  • symbol retailer — any member of a voluntary group of independent retailers, often using a common name or symbol, formed to obtain better prices from wholesalers or manufacturers in competition with supermarket chains
  • the square mile — the area in central London in which the United Kingdom's major financial business is transacted
  • tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
  • toilet training — child: process of learning to use toilet
  • tractor-trailer — a combination trucking unit consisting of a tractor hooked up to a full trailer or a semitrailer.
  • underprivileged — denied the enjoyment of the normal privileges or rights of a society because of low economic and social status.
  • upwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
  • west nile fever — a viral disease, caused by a flavivirus and spread by a mosquito (Culex pipiens), that results in encephalitis

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