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12-letter words containing c, o, d, g

  • ground cloth — groundsheet.
  • ground color — Also called ground coat. a primary coat of paint; priming; base coat.
  • ground cover — the herbaceous plants and low shrubs in a forest, considered as a whole.
  • ground force — a military force that operates on the ground
  • ground track — the path on the earth's surface below an aircraft, missile, rocket, or spacecraft.
  • gynodioecism — the condition of having flowers that are only female in one example of a plant and flowers that have stamens and pistils in another example of a plant of the same species
  • hamming code — (algorithm)   Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
  • hedge-school — a school held out of doors in favourable weather, indoors in winter
  • hendecagonal — (geometry) Having eleven sides an angles; similar to a hendecagon.
  • high command — the leadership or highest authority of a military command or other organization.
  • high-colored — deep in color; vivid.
  • highway code — In Britain, the Highway Code is an official book published by the Department of Transport, which contains the rules which tell people how to use public roads safely.
  • hydrocooling — the process or technique of arresting the ripening of fruits and vegetables after harvesting by immersion in ice water.
  • hydroecology — The study of support systems in wetlands such as the interactions between water and wildlife habitats.
  • hydrographic — the science of the measurement, description, and mapping of the surface waters of the earth, with special reference to their use for navigation.
  • hydrological — the science dealing with the occurrence, circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth and its atmosphere.
  • in good nick — in good condition
  • inconcluding — (obsolete) Inferring no consequence.
  • kingdom come — the next world; the hereafter; heaven.
  • ladder logic — (programming)   Source code formatted in two columns with conditions on the left that lead to outputs on the right: if (c1) s1 else if (c2) s2 else if (c3) s3 ... (2007-03-15)
  • light comedy — a play or film which deals with its subject matter in an amusing and lighthearted way
  • loading coil — an inductance coil used to improve the characteristics of a transmission line.
  • logodaedalic — of or relating to plays on words and word tricks
  • longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
  • managed code — (operating system)   Code that is executed by the .NET common language runtime (CLR). VB.NET code is always managed code but C++ .NET can optionally use unmanaged code. Managed code provides metadata allowing the CLR to manage security (role-based as well as new approaches to code access security). The CLR also handles errors, manages the program stack and finds methods in assembly modules. Managed data is memory that's subject to garbage collection. There are additional restrictions to permit interoperability of different languages, for example, Visual Basic arrays must be zero-based.
  • mcleod gauge — a device for determining very low gas pressures by manometrically measuring the pressure of a sample after its compression to a known fraction of its original volume.
  • medico-legal — pertaining to medicine and law or to forensic medicine.
  • megalocardia — hypertrophy of the heart.
  • microlending — the lending of very small amounts of money at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.
  • micromanaged — Simple past tense and past participle of micromanage.
  • middle congo — former name of the People's Republic of the Congo.
  • mockingbirds — Plural form of mockingbird.
  • mockingboard — (hardware)   A sound and speech board for the Apple II computer, on sale in 1978. See also zxnrbl.
  • much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something
  • non-decaying — to become decomposed; rot: vegetation that was decaying.
  • non-dogmatic — relating to or of the nature of a dogma or dogmas or any strong set of principles concerning faith, morals, etc., as those laid down by a church; doctrinal: We hear dogmatic arguments from both sides of the political spectrum.
  • nonaddicting — Not addicting.
  • noncorroding — That cannot be corroded.
  • nonproducing — that does not produce
  • oligodactyly — The presence of fewer than the usual number of fingers or toes.
  • on the cadge — engaged in cadging
  • oregon cedar — Port Orford cedar.
  • organic mode — (programming)   A term used by COCOMO to describe a project that is developed in a familiar, stable environment. The product is similar to previously developed products. Most people connected with the project have extensive experience in working with related systems and have a thorough understanding of the project. The project contains a minimum of innovative data processing architectures or algorithms. The product requires little innovation and is relatively small, rarely greater than 50,000 DSIs.
  • overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
  • overcrowding — Fill (accommodations or a space) beyond what is usual or comfortable.
  • pentadecagon — a polygon having 15 angles and 15 sides.
  • ping command — ping
  • pole dancing — Pole dancing is a type of entertainment in a bar or club in which a woman who is wearing very few clothes dances around a pole in a sexy way.
  • producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
  • public goods — services such as national defence, law enforcement, and road building, that are for the benefit of, and available to, all members of the public
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