14-letter words containing c, a, g, o, u
- hallucinogenic — producing hallucinations: a hallucinogenic drug.
- happy-go-lucky — trusting cheerfully to luck; happily unworried or unconcerned.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- huffman coding — (algorithm) A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
- ichthyophagous — the practice of eating or subsisting on fish.
- isocyano group — the univalent group −NC.
- judge advocate — a staff officer designated as legal adviser to a commander and charged with the administration of military justice.
- juicing orange — an orange that is grown especially for its juice, for example the Valencia orange
- kangaroo court — a self-appointed or mob-operated tribunal that disregards or parodies existing principles of law or human rights, especially one in a frontier area or among criminals in prison.
- lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
- laughing stock — object of others' amusement
- laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
- legal document — a document concerning a legal matter; a document drawn up by a lawyer
- logic emulator — A system of FPGAs, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, such as a microprocessor. An emulated design can be connected into the target system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an integrated circuit.
- lu-wang school — School of Mind.
- luggage locker — a large locker at a transport terminal or airport where luggage can be left temporarily
- macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
- magic mountain — a novel (1924) by Thomas Mann.
- magic mushroom — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
- malfunctioning — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
- malpighiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical plants many of which are lianas
- margaritaceous — resembling mother-of-pearl; pearly.
- margin account — an account opened by a customer with a brokerage house in which listed securities can be purchased on margin.
- mercapto group — the univalent group –SH.
- misgovernaunce — misgovernment
- mourning cloak — a common butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) having purplish-brown wings with a wide yellow border, found throughout Europe and North America
- museologically — In a museological manner.
- myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.
- neurogenically — by neural activity
- neurologically — the science of the nerves and the nervous system, especially of the diseases affecting them.
- non-liturgical — of or relating to formal public worship or liturgies.
- noncirculating — not circulating
- nyctaginaceous — belonging to the Nyctaginaceae, the four-o'clock family of plants.
- opechancanough — c1545–1644, Algonquian leader, brother of Powhatan: led Jamestown massacre 1622.
- pre-accounting — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
- pugnaciousness — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- racing colours — the colours painted on a racing car to represent the nation of the car or driver
- rolling launch — the process of introducing a new product into a market gradually
- rough as sacks — uncouth
- sacrilegiously — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- sanguification — hematopoiesis.
- saxifragaceous — belonging to the plant family Saxifragaceae.
- schizognathous — (of birds) having a separation in the vomer and maxillo-palatine bones, having a cleft-palate
- scrape through — only just succeed
- shouting match — a loud, often abusive quarrel or argument.
- social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
- social housing — Social housing is housing which is provided for rent or sale at a fairly low cost by housing associations and local councils.
- soul-searching — the act or process of close and penetrating analysis of oneself, to determine one's true motives and sentiments.
- source program — an original computer program written by a programmer that is converted into the equivalent object program, written in machine language, by the compiler or assembler