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16-letter words containing a, g, o

  • chronic glaucoma — Ophthalmology. abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye, most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains (open-angle glaucoma or chronic glaucoma) or by pressure of the iris against the lens, which traps the aqueous humor (angle-closure glaucoma or acute glaucoma)
  • cigarette holder — A cigarette holder is a narrow tube that you can put a cigarette into in order to hold it while you smoke it.
  • circumnavigation — to sail or fly around; make the circuit of by navigation: to circumnavigate the earth.
  • circumnavigatory — Pertaining to circumnavigation.
  • citronella grass — a tropical Asian grass, Cymbopogon (or Andropogon) nardus, with bluish-green lemon-scented leaves
  • cladogenetically — By means of cladogenesis.
  • class background — a person's background with reference to social class
  • clean technology — techniques used in manufacturing processes that minimize the damage caused to the environment
  • cleaning product — a detergent or other household cleaner
  • climatologically — In climatological terms.
  • cloak-and-dagger — A cloak-and-dagger activity is one which involves mystery and secrecy.
  • closing argument — In a court case, a lawyer's closing argument is their final speech, in which they give a summary of their case.
  • cocktail sausage — a small sausage served with drinks
  • coign of vantage — an advantageous position or stance for observation or action
  • coleridge-taylor — Samuel. 1875–1912, British composer, best known for his trilogy of oratorios Song of Hiawatha (1898–1900)
  • collagen disease — any of a group of diseases, as systemic lupus erythematosus, polyarteritis, scleroderma, and rheumatoid arthritis, involving inflammation or degeneration of connective tissue and accompanied by deposition of fibrinous material.
  • college graduate — a student who has recently graduated from college
  • colonial heights — a town in central Virginia.
  • colorado springs — a city and resort in central Colorado. Pop: 370 448 (2003 est)
  • columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • combination drug — a medication comprised of set dosages of two or more separate drugs.
  • come and get it! — the meal is ready!
  • come/bring alive — If a story or description comes alive, it becomes interesting, lively, or realistic. If someone or something brings it alive, they make it seem more interesting, lively, or realistic.
  • command guidance — a method of controlling a missile during flight by transmitting information to it
  • command language — the language used to access a computer system
  • commission agent — a person who sells goods and services for a fee
  • common logarithm — a logarithm to the base ten. Usually written log or log10
  • common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
  • common-or-garden — You can use common-or-garden to describe something you think is ordinary and not special in any way.
  • community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
  • commutator group — the subgroup of a given group, which consists of all the commutators in the group.
  • complexing agent — an intricate or complicated association or assemblage of related things, parts, units, etc.: the entire complex of our educational system; an apartment complex.
  • computer program — a set of instructions for a computer to perform some task
  • configurationism — Gestalt psychology
  • congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
  • congo free state — a former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • congressionalist — of or relating to a congress.
  • consanguineously — In a consanguineous fashion; by blood relationship.
  • consenting adult — a male person over the age of sixteen, who may legally engage in homosexual behaviour in private
  • considering that — You use considering that to indicate that you are thinking about a particular fact when making a judgment or giving an opinion.
  • 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 magazine — a magazine in which to place adverts to make contacts, esp sexual ones
  • contact printing — the process of making contact prints.
  • contagious magic — magic that attempts to affect a person through something once connected with him or her, as a shirt once worn by the person or a footprint left in the sand; a branch of sympathetic magic based on the belief that things once in contact are in some way permanently so, however separated physically they may subsequently become.
  • container garden — a collection of pots or other receptacles containing soil for growing plants out of doors
  • contingency plan — a plan to be carried out if a more likely or desired outcome does not happen
  • contract killing — a murder carried out in fulfilment of a contract
  • contraindicating — Present participle of contraindicate.
  • control language — (language)   (CL) The batch language for IBM RPG/38, used in conjunction with RPG III. See also OCL.
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