15-letter words that end in g
- feminine ending — Prosody. an unaccented syllable at the close of a line of poetry, often one that is added to the metrical pattern as an extra syllable.
- finger painting — a jellylike paint, used chiefly by children in painting, usually with their fingers.
- finger spelling — a method of communicating with or among deaf people in which different shapes made with the fingers represent different letters of the alphabet
- finger-pointing — the imputation of blame or responsibility.
- flame hardening — the surface hardening of ferrous metals by heating the metal with an oxyacetylene flame followed by rapid cooling
- flange coupling — a driving coupling between rotating shafts that consists of flanges (or half couplings) one of which is fixed at the end of each shaft, the two flanges being bolted together with a ring of bolts to complete the drive
- flight shooting — competitive shooting for distance only.
- fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.
- food processing — transforming raw materials into food
- forward-looking — planning for or anticipating possible future events, conditions, etc.; progressive.
- fractionalizing — Present participle of fractionalize.
- french dressing — salad dressing prepared chiefly from oil, vinegar, and seasonings.
- french-speaking — able to speak French
- frisian carving — geometrical incised carving.
- fuzzy computing — fuzzy logic
- gene sequencing — the determination of the order in which a particular gene's nucleotides are arranged
- general meeting — business: for all members
- german-speaking — able to speak German
- giant water bug — any of various aquatic bugs, as of the family Belostomatidae (giant water bug)
- gleichschaltung — the enforcement of standardization and the elimination of all opposition within the political, economic, and cultural institutions of a state
- globe lightning — ball lightning.
- go with a swing — If you say that something is going with a swing, you mean that it is lively and exciting.
- gossipmongering — The behaviour of a gossipmonger; the spreading of salacious rumours.
- gotterdammerung — German Mythology. the destruction of the gods and of all things in a final battle with evil powers: erroneous modern translation of the Old Icelandic Ragnarǫk, meaning “fate of the gods,” misunderstood as Ragnarökkr, meaning “twilight of the gods.”.
- graph colouring — (application) A constraint-satisfaction problem often used as a test case in research, which also turns out to be equivalent to certain real-world problems (e.g. register allocation). Given a connected graph and a fixed number of colours, the problem is to assign a colour to each node, subject to the constraint that any two connected nodes cannot be assigned the same colour. This is an example of an NP-complete problem. See also four colour map theorem.
- great awakening — the series of religious revivals among Protestants in the American colonies, especially in New England, lasting from about 1725 to 1770.
- green lightning — [IBM] 1. Apparently random flashing streaks on the face of 3278-9 terminals while a new symbol set is being downloaded. This hardware bug was left deliberately unfixed, as some genius within IBM suggested it would let the user know that "something is happening". That, it certainly does. Later microprocessor-driven IBM colour graphics displays were actually *programmed* to produce green lightning! 2. [proposed] Any bug perverted into an alleged feature by adroit rationalisation or marketing. "Motorola calls the CISC cruft in the 88000 architecture "compatibility logic", but I call it green lightning". See also feature.
- grid networking — a type of computer networking that harnesses unused processing cycles of ordinary desktop computers to create a virtual supercomputer
- ground-breaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- hair of the dog — an alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover
- hard of hearing — partially deaf
- hard-boiled egg — egg boiled until the yolk is set
- hearing ear dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
- hearing-ear dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
- heart-searching — a thorough examination of one's feelings and motives; a self-examination of one's conscience.
- heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
- heavy breathing — stertorous breathing or breathing done with difficulty
- heliacal rising — rising of a celestial object at approximately the same time as the rising of the sun
- high on the hog — in a luxurious or costly way
- hit the ceiling — the overhead interior surface of a room.
- holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
- hot-dip coating — the process of coating sheets of iron or steel with molten zinc.
- hump one's swag — (of a tramp) to carry one's belongings from place to place on one's back
- hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hyperpolarizing — Present participle of hyperpolarize.
- hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
- ignition timing — Ignition timing is the timing of the spark relative to the piston top dead center in a spark ignition engine.
- immaterializing — Present participle of immaterialize.
- in-suite dining — In-suite dining in a hotel is when guests eat meals in their rooms.
- inconveniencing — the quality or state of being inconvenient.