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15-letter words containing c, l, u, n, g

  • cultural cringe — the perception that one's own culture is inferior to that of another group or country
  • culture jamming — a form of political and social activism which, by means of fake adverts, hoax news stories, pastiches of company logos and product labels, computer hacking, etc, draws attention to and at the same time subverts the power of the media, governments, and large corporations to control and distort the information that they give to the public in order to promote consumerism, militarism, etc
  • cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
  • deculturalizing — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
  • direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
  • disarticulating — Present participle of disarticulate.
  • disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
  • drying-up cloth — a tea towel
  • elections judge — someone who oversees an election
  • ethnolinguistic — Of or pertaining to ethnolinguistics.
  • ethnomusicology — The study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
  • extralinguistic — Outside the realm of linguistics.
  • flange coupling — a driving coupling between rotating shafts that consists of flanges (or half couplings) one of which is fixed at the end of each shaft, the two flanges being bolted together with a ring of bolts to complete the drive
  • flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
  • fungistatically — in a fungistatic manner
  • galactic nebula — a nebula in the Milky Way.
  • galvanic couple — voltaic couple.
  • gleichschaltung — the enforcement of standardization and the elimination of all opposition within the political, economic, and cultural institutions of a state
  • gluconeogenesis — glucose formation in animals from a noncarbohydrate source, as from proteins or fats.
  • gluconeogenetic — Of or pertaining to gluconeogenesis.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • gulf of corinth — an inlet of the Ionian Sea between the Peloponnese and central Greece
  • gulf of fonseca — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in W Central America
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • immunologically — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
  • ingush republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: part of the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Republic from 1936 until 1992. Capital: Magas (formerly at Nazran). Pop: 468 900 (2002). Area: 3600 sq km (1390 sq miles)
  • insuring clause — the clause in an insurance policy setting forth the kind and degree of coverage granted by the insurer.
  • language school — A language school is a private school where a foreign language is taught.
  • leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
  • leakage current — A leakage current is an electric current in an unwanted conductive path under normal operating conditions.
  • leakage-current — an act of leaking; leak.
  • licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
  • lignocellulosic — (biochemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from lignocellulose; used especially to describe the products of biomass.
  • linguistic area — a geographical area in which several languages sharing common features are spoken.
  • linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
  • long-sufferance — long-suffering.
  • lubricating oil — an oily substance that is used to cover or treat machinery so as to lessen friction
  • lump uncurrying — Chin's generalisation of uncurrying. A curried function taking several tuples as arguments can be transformed to take a single tuple containing all the components of the original tuples.
  • lung specialist — doctor specializing in lung conditions
  • magna cum laude — with great praise: used in diplomas to grant the next-to-highest of three special honors for grades above the average.
  • magnetic bubble — a tiny mobile magnetized area within a magnetic material, the basis of one type of solid-state storage medium (magnetic bubble memory)
  • magnetic pulley — a magnetic device for separating metal from sand, refuse, etc.
  • metalinguistics — the study of the relation between languages and the other cultural systems they refer to.
  • micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
  • microtunnelling — a technique used to excavate tunnels mechanically for the laying of pipes
  • motoring public — the population that drive road vehicles
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