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16-letter words that end in g

  • circumambulating — Present participle of circumambulate.
  • circumnavigating — Present participle of circumnavigate.
  • clootie dumpling — a boiled suet pudding containing dried fruits
  • combination drug — a medication comprised of set dosages of two or more separate drugs.
  • constant folding — (compiler)   A compiler optimisation technique where constant subexpressions are evaluated at compile time. This is usually only applied to built-in numerical and boolean operators whereas partial evaluation is more general in that expressions involving user-defined functions may also be evaluated at compile time.
  • constant mapping — (networking)   A precursor to ARP used by some TCP software in which the destination Ethernet address is constructed from the top 24 bits of the source Ethernet address followed by the low 24 bits of the (class A) destination Internet address. For this scheme the top 24 bits of the Ethernet address must be the same on all hosts on the network.
  • contact printing — the process of making contact prints.
  • contract killing — a murder carried out in fulfilment of a contract
  • contraindicating — Present participle of contraindicate.
  • counter-checking — a check that opposes or restrains.
  • counterattacking — Present participle of counterattack.
  • counterbalancing — Present participle of counterbalance.
  • creative writing — Creative writing is writing such as novels, stories, poems, and plays.
  • critical damping — the minimum amount of viscous damping that results in a displaced system returning to its original position without oscillation
  • currency trading — the business of trading in different currencies in order to profit from exchange rate differentials
  • data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
  • day of reckoning — If someone talks about the day of reckoning, they mean a day or time in the future when people will be forced to deal with an unpleasant situation which they have avoided until now.
  • dead man walking — a condemned man walking from his prison cell to a place of execution
  • dechristianizing — Present participle of dechristianize.
  • deep-sea fishing — the activity of catching fish that live in the deep parts of the sea
  • deficit spending — Deficit spending is an economic policy in which a government spends more money raised by borrowing than it receives in revenue.
  • diamond drilling — drilling using a drill with a diamond-impregnated bit
  • dinosaurs mating — (humour)   The activity said to occur when yet another big iron merger or buy-out occurs; reflects a perception by hackers that these signal another stage in the long, slow dying of the mainframe industry. Also described as "elephants mating": lots of noise and action at a high level, with an eventual outcome in the somewhat distant future. In its glory days of the 1960s, it was "IBM and the Seven Dwarves": Burroughs, Control Data, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR, RCA, and Univac. Early on, RCA sold out to Univac and GE also sold out, and it was "IBM and the BUNCH" (an acronym for Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell) for a while. Honeywell was bought out by Bull. Univac in turn merged with Sperry to form Sperry/Univac, which was later merged (although the employees of Sperry called it a hostile takeover) with Burroughs to form Unisys in 1986 (this was when the phrase "dinosaurs mating" was coined). In 1991 AT&T absorbed NCR, only to spit it out again in 1996. Unisys bought Convergent Technologies in 1988 and later others. More such earth-shaking unions of doomed giants seem inevitable.
  • direct marketing — marketing direct to the consumer, as by direct mail or coupon advertising.
  • discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
  • discountenancing — Present participle of discountenance.
  • disenfranchising — Present participle of disenfranchise.
  • disincentivising — Present participle of disincentivise.
  • disproportioning — Present participle of disproportion.
  • district heating — a heating system in which centrally generated heat is distributed via ducts and pipes to multiple buildings or locations
  • document imaging — the process of converting paper documents into an electronic or digital format
  • double centering — a method of extending a survey line by taking the average of two foresights, one with the telescope direct and one with it inverted, made each time by transiting the telescope after a backsight.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • double-clutching — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
  • drug trafficking — smuggling illegal drugs
  • dutch guinea pig — a breed of two-tone short-haired guinea pig
  • earth-shattering — earthshaking.
  • edinburgh prolog — Prolog dialect which eventually developed into the standard, as opposed to Marseille Prolog. (The difference is largely syntax.) Clocksin & Mellish describe Edinburgh Prolog. Version: C-Prolog.
  • electric welding — the process of welding together, through the use of the heat that is produced by an electric current, pieces of metal
  • english-speaking — speaking English as a mother tongue
  • equity weighting — the practice of assigning different values to currencies according to factors such as geographical location and climate
  • ethnic cleansing — genocide
  • extreme fighting — a combat sport incorporating techniques from a range of martial arts, with little if any regulation of the types of blows permissible
  • faction fighting — dissension
  • fair to middling — free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice: a fair decision; a fair judge.
  • family balancing — the choosing of the sex of a future child on the basis of how many children of each sex a family already has
  • filling knitting — a knitting process in which the yarn is knitted horizontally and in a circular form.
  • financial doping — the situation in which a sports franchise borrows heavily in order to contract and pay high-performing players, jeopardizing their long-term financial future
  • fisherman's ring — the signet ring worn by the pope.
  • flower arranging — Flower arranging is the art or hobby of arranging cut flowers in a way which makes them look attractive.
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