15-letter words containing c, g, s
- cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
- curate's-eggish — good in parts
- customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
- cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking) The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
- cycling clothes — special clothes, such as lycra shorts, suitable for cycling in
- cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
- data processing — Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
- decision-making — the act or process of making decisions
- decommissioning — the act of decommissioning something
- decriminalising — Present participle of decriminalise.
- dephlogisticate — to reduce or remove inflammation from
- dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
- descaling agent — something intended for use removing limescale from something such as a tap, kettle or coffee machine.
- descending node — the node through which an orbiting body passes as it moves to the south (opposed to ascending node).
- design recovery — (process) A subtask of reverse engineering in which domain knowledge, external information, and deduction of fuzzy reasoning are added to the observations of the subject system to identify meaningful higher level abstractions beyond those obtained directly by examining the system itself. In other words, design recovery aims to work out what a system or component was designed to do rather than just examining its subcomponents and their interrelationships.
- desynchronizing — Present participle of desynchronize.
- digestive tract — alimentary canal
- disarticulating — Present participle of disarticulate.
- disconcertingly — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
- disenchantingly — In a disenchanting manner.
- disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
- dishcloth gourd — loofah (def 1).
- docking station — device: charger
- doctor's degree — any of several academic degrees of the highest rank, as the Ph.D. or Ed.D., awarded by universities and some colleges for completing advanced work in graduate school or a professional school.
- driving license — A driving license is the same as a driver's license.
- dynamic scoping — dynamic scope
- dysteleological — Of or pertaining to dysteleology.
- ecclesiological — Of or pertaining to ecclesiology.
- echocardiograms — Plural form of echocardiogram.
- eclipse plumage — the dull plumage developed in some brightly colored birds after the breeding season.
- ecotoxicologist — One who studies ecotoxicology.
- elections judge — someone who oversees an election
- electromyograms — Plural form of electromyogram.
- electrosurgical — Relating to electrosurgery.
- endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
- english channel — waterway between England and France
- epistemological — Of or pertaining to epistemology or theory of knowledge, as a field of study.
- ethnolinguistic — Of or pertaining to ethnolinguistics.
- ethnomusicology — The study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
- ethnopsychology — The scientific study of psychological concepts as they exist across different ethnic groups.
- evangelicalness — the state or quality of being evangelical
- ewing's sarcoma — a form of malignant bone tumour most commonly found in children and young people
- exchange server — Microsoft Exchange
- extralinguistic — Outside the realm of linguistics.
- false pregnancy — physiological signs of pregnancy without conception; pseudocyesis.
- fantasmagorical — Alternative form of phantasmagorical.
- fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
- finishing touch — a final additional or detail that completes and perfects something
- floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
- focusing screen — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.