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17-letter words containing la

  • dephosphorylation — the removal of a phosphate group from an organic compound, as in the changing of ATP to ADP.
  • dessert chocolate — cooking chocolate
  • dibutyl phthalate — a colorless oily liquid, C 16 H 22 O 4 , insoluble in water, used as a solvent, insect repellent, and plasticizer.
  • diphenylacetylene — tolan.
  • disability clause — a clause in a life-insurance policy providing for waiver of premium and sometimes payment of monthly income if the policyholder becomes totally and permanently disabled.
  • disaster planning — disaster recovery
  • discomgoogolation — a feeling of anxiety felt by someone who is unable to access the internet
  • displacement hull — a hull that displaces a significant volume of water when under way.
  • display standards — display standard
  • division of labor — a production process in which a worker or group of workers is assigned a specialized task in order to increase efficiency.
  • dollar a year man — of or being an official or employee, especially a federal appointee, who receives a token annual salary, usually of one dollar: a dollar-a-year man.
  • dollars-and-cents — considered strictly in terms of money: from a dollars-and-cents viewpoint.
  • double insulation — Double insulation is insulation that consists of both basic insulation and supplementary insulation.
  • 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.
  • douglas macarthur — Douglas, 1880–1964, U.S. general: supreme commander of allied forces in SW Pacific during World War II and of UN forces in Korea 1950–51.
  • drilling platform — a structure, either fixed to the sea bed or mobile, which supports the machinery and equipment (the drilling rig), together with the stores, required for digging an offshore oil well
  • due course of law — the regular administration of the law, according to which no citizen may be denied his or her legal rights and all laws must conform to fundamental, accepted legal principles, as the right of the accused to confront his or her accusers.
  • eat flaming death — (humour, abuse)   A construction popularised among hackers by the infamous CPU Wars comic; supposedly derive from a famously turgid line in a WWII-era anti-Nazi propaganda comic that ran "Eat flaming death, non-Aryan mongrels!" or something of the sort (however, it is also reported that the Firesign Theater's 1975 album "In The Next World, You're On Your Own" included the phrase "Eat flaming death, fascist media pigs"; this may have been an influence). Used in humorously overblown expressions of hostility. "Eat flaming death, EBCDIC users!"
  • echo cancellation — A process which removes unwanted echoes from the signal on a telephone line. Echoes are usually caused by impedance mismatches along an analogue line.
  • elastic stockings — something made of elastic which you wear on your legs to aid circulation
  • emergency landing — an occasion when a place is forced to land: for example, because of a mechanical fault, bad weather, terrorism, etc.
  • empirical formula — a chemical formula indicating the proportion of each element present in a molecule
  • enlarged prostate — disorder of male reproductive gland
  • equivalence class — (mathematics)   An equivalence class is a subset whose elements are related to each other by an equivalence relation. The equivalence classes of a set under some relation form a partition of that set (i.e. any two are either equal or disjoint and every element of the set is in some class).
  • exclamation point — exclamation mark
  • exemplary damages — law: fine imposed as a deterrent
  • external relation — a relation that does not hold between its relata, as 4 is greater than 2
  • extrasolar planet — any other celestial body revolving around a star, illuminated by light from that star
  • falkland islander — a person from the Falkland Islands
  • federal land bank — a U.S. federal bank for making long-term loans to farmers.
  • financial planner — a person whose business is advising individuals in the management of their financial affairs
  • first-aid classes — classes which teach people how to give immediate medical help in an emergency
  • flagrante delicto — Law. in the very act of committing the offense.
  • flash photography — photography using a momentary flash of artificial light as a source of illumination.
  • flat as a pancake — without any curves or bumps
  • foreign relations — (used with a singular verb) the field of foreign affairs: an expert in foreign relations.
  • french somaliland — a former name of Djibouti (def 1).
  • front-line player — a regular player on a sports team or one who plays in the farthest forward position
  • funicular railway — a short, very steep railway having two parallel sets of tracks, upon each of which runs a car or train raised or lowered by means of a cable that simultaneously lowers or raises the other car or train in such a way that the two are approximately counterbalanced.
  • galactic latitude — the angular distance from the galactic equator of a point on the celestial sphere.
  • 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)
  • gamblers' fallacy — the fallacy that in a series of chance events the probability of one event occurring increases with the number of times another event has occurred in succession
  • 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.
  • go for the collar — to go without a hit in a game
  • gomez de la serna — Ramón [rah-mawn] /rɑˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), ("Ramón") 1888–1963, Spanish novelist, dramatist, biographer, and critic.
  • great namaqualand — an arid coastal region in the S part of Namibia, extending into the Cape of Good Hope province of the Republic of South Africa, divided by the Orange River into two regions, one in Namibia (Great Namaqualand) the other in South Africa (Little Namaqualand) inhabited by the Nama.
  • greater celandine — celandine (def 1).
  • greenland current — the ocean current flowing clockwise around S Greenland.
  • greenland halibut — a flatfish, Reinhardtius hippoglossoides, similar and related to the halibut
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