15-letter words containing a, c, r, o, g
- electromyograms — Plural form of electromyogram.
- electromyograph — A device used in electromyography to generate electromyograms.
- electronegative — Electrically negative.
- electronic game — any of various small handheld computerized games, usually battery-operated, having a small screen on which graphics are displayed and buttons to operate the game
- electrosurgical — Relating to electrosurgery.
- embryologically — Regarding embryology.
- encephalography — Any of various techniques for recording the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
- endocrine gland — anatomy: hormone-secreting gland
- epeirogenically — in the manner of epeirogeny
- ewing's sarcoma — a form of malignant bone tumour most commonly found in children and young people
- factory farming — Factory farming is a system of farming which involves keeping animals indoors, often with very little space, and giving them special foods so that they grow more quickly or produce more eggs or milk.
- fall from grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- fantasmagorical — Alternative form of phantasmagorical.
- feelgood factor — When journalists refer to the feelgood factor, they mean that people are feeling hopeful and optimistic about the future.
- fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
- fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
- floating charge — an unsecured charge on the assets of an enterprise that allows such assets to be used commercially until the enterprise ceases to operate or the creditor intervenes to demand collateral
- floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
- fractionalizing — Present participle of fractionalize.
- french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
- french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
- gale-force wind — a wind of force seven to ten on the Beaufort scale or from 45 to 90 kilometres per hour
- garbage collect — garbage collection
- gastric balloon — an inflatable rubber bag placed in the stomach to reduce its capacity as an aid to losing weight
- gastronomically — the art or science of good eating.
- general officer — an officer ranking above colonel.
- geneva protocol — the agreement in 1925 to ban the use of asphyxiating, poisonous, or other gases in war. It does not ban the development or manufacture of such gases
- geodemographics — the study and grouping of the people in a geographical area according to socioeconomic criteria, esp for market research
- geometric ratio — the ratio of consecutive terms in a geometric progression.
- geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
- get one's cards — to be told to leave one's employment
- gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- glass harmonica — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated, revolving glass bowls, the rims of which are moistened and set in vibration by friction from the fingertips.
- globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
- glossographical — relating to glossography
- glucuronic acid — Biochemistry. an acid, C 6 H 10 O 7 , formed by the oxidation of glucose, found combined with other products of metabolism in the blood and urine.
- glycuronic acid — glucuronic acid.
- goal difference — the number of goals scored by a team minus the number of goals it has conceded
- governing class — the social class that holds the power in a country
- grace-and-favor — noting a residence owned by a noble or sovereign and bestowed by him or her upon some person for that person's lifetime.
- graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
- gramophonically — in a gramophonic manner
- granitification — the process or action of forming into granite
- 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.
- graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
- graphologically — In terms of or by means of graphology.
- graviperception — the perception of gravity by plants
- great attractor — a vast concentration of matter whose gravitational pull alters the direction and speed of the Milky Way and other galaxies as they spread apart in the expanding universe posited by the big bang theory.
- great recession — the protracted worldwide economic recession following the financial crisis of 2007–08
- 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.