17-letter words containing c, g

greenland current — the ocean current flowing clockwise around S Greenland.
greensand process — a process for casting iron with sand not previously heated.
greenwich village — a section of New York City, in lower Manhattan: inhabited and frequented by artists, writers, and students.
grey-faced petrel — a dark-coloured New Zealand petrel, Pterodroma macroptera gouldi
grid merchandiser — A grid merchandiser is a lightweight, free-standing, flexible fixture made up of moveable grids of wire and used by retailers can display large volumes of merchandise in a small space.
grignard reaction — the reaction of a Grignard reagent with any of the numerous types of compounds with which it can combine, as alcohols, acids, aldehydes, ketones, or esters: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
grooved fricative — a fricative, as (s), in which air is channeled through a groove along the center of the tongue.
ground connection — the conductor used to establish a ground.
guglielmo marconi — Guglielmo [goo-lyel-maw] /guˈlyɛl mɔ/ (Show IPA), Marchese, 1874–1937, Italian electrical engineer and inventor, especially in the field of wireless telegraphy: Nobel Prize in physics 1909.
guilty conscience — Your conscience is the part of your mind that tells you whether what you are doing is right or wrong. If you have a guilty conscience, you feel guilty about something because you know it was wrong. If you have a clear conscience, you do not feel guilty because you know you have done nothing wrong.
gunboat diplomacy — diplomatic relations involving the use or threat of military force, especially by a powerful nation against a weaker one.
gupta corporation — (company) The vendor of SQLWindows. Gupta Corporation provides application development and deployment software for client-server applications, consisting of a relational database, application development tools and transparent connectivity software. Gupta employs 400 people in 15 offices worldwide, including the United States, Europe and Asia. Gupta's 1993 fiscal year income was $5.6 million and their revenue was $56.1 million. Gupta sells client-server system components for networks of personal computers. Address: 1060 Marsh Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. Telephone: +1 (415) 321 9500. Fax: +1 (415) 321 5471.
handicap register — a list of the disabled people in its area that a local authority had a duty to compile under the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970
hanging committee — a group of people that selects and hangs works of art to exhibit
hard rock geology — (loosely) of or relating to igneous or metamorphic rocks, as in mining (hard-rock mining) and geology (hard-rock geology)
hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
hemiglossectomies — Plural form of hemiglossectomy.
hemorrhagic fever — any of several arbovirus infections, as dengue, characterized by fever, chills, and malaise followed by hemorrhages of capillaries, sometimes leading to kidney failure and death.
henry cabot lodge — Henry Cabot, 1850–1924, U.S. public servant and author: senator 1893–1924.
high commissioner — a representative of one sovereign member of the Commonwealth of Nations in the country of another, having a rank and responsibilities generally similar to those of an ambassador.
high muckety-muck — high muck-a-muck
high-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent carbon
higher arithmetic — arithmetic (def 2).
hillcrest heights — a city in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
hippocampal gyrus — a convolution on the inner surface of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum, bordering the hippocampus.
histopathological — the science dealing with the histological structure of abnormal or diseased tissue; pathological histology.
historiographical — the body of literature dealing with historical matters; histories collectively.
homeopathic magic — magic that attempts to control the universe through the mimicking of a desired event, as by stabbing an image of an enemy in an effort to destroy him or her or by performing a ritual dance imitative of the growth of food in an effort to secure an abundant supply; a branch of sympathetic magic based on the belief that similar actions produce similar results.
homogentisic acid — an intermediate compound in the metabolism of tyrosine and of phenylalanine, found in excess in the blood and urine of persons affected with alkaptonuria.
housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
human trafficking — the illegal practice of procuring or trading in human beings for the purpose of prostitution, forced labor, or other forms of exploitation.
humpbacked bridge — A humpbacked bridge or humpback bridge is a short and very curved bridge with a shape similar to a semi-circle.
hurricane warning — a storm warning given for winds with speeds exceeding 63 knots (72 mph, 32 m/sec) when the source of the winds is a tropical cyclone.
huygens principle — the principle that all points on a wave front of light are sources of secondary waves and that surfaces tangential to these waves define the position of the wave front at any point in time.
huygens' eyepiece — a telescope eyepiece consisting of two planoconvex lenses separated by a distance equal to half the sum of their focal lengths, which are in the ratio of three to one, and oriented so that their curved surfaces face the incident light
hyaline cartilage — the typical, translucent form of cartilage, containing little fibrous tissue.
hydrogasification — a high-temperature, high-pressure process for producing liquid or gaseous fuels from fine particles of coal and hydrogen gas
hydrogen chloride — a colorless gas, HCl, having a pungent odor: the anhydride of hydrochloric acid.
i can't be fagged — I can't be bothered
i will/can manage — You say 'I can manage' or 'I'll manage' as a way of refusing someone's offer of help and insisting on doing something by yourself.
icing on the cake — a sweet mixture, cooked or uncooked, for coating or filling cakes, cookies, and the like; icing.
ideogrammatically — In terms of, or by means of, ideograms.
ignoratio elenchi — the fallacy of offering proof irrelevant to the proposition in question.
illegal procedure — a penalty assessed against the offensive team for a technical rules violation, as in assuming an illegal formation.
image enhancement — a method of improving the definition of a video picture by a computer program, which reduces the lowest grey values to black and the highest to white: used for pictures from microscopes, surveillance cameras, and scanners
image recognition — (graphics, artificial intelligence) The identification of objects in an image. This process would probably start with image processing techniques such as noise removal, followed by (low-level) feature extraction to locate lines, regions and possibly areas with certain textures. The clever bit is to interpret collections of these shapes as single objects, e.g. cars on a road, boxes on a conveyor belt or cancerous cells on a microscope slide. One reason this is an AI problem is that an object can appear very different when viewed from different angles or under different lighting. Another problem is deciding what features belong to what object and which are background or shadows etc. The human visual system performs these tasks mostly unconsciously but a computer requires skillful programming and lots of processing power to approach human performance.
immunodiagnostics — the determination of immunologic characteristics of individuals, cells, and other biologic entities.
in good condition — person: fit and healthy
in recognition of — If something is done in recognition of someone's achievements, it is done as a way of showing official appreciation of them.
in the background — behind the focus of attention

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