14-letter words containing c, o, d, g
- drop a clanger — If you say that you have dropped a clanger, you mean that you have done or said something stupid or embarrassing.
- drug addiction — dependence on a chemical substance
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- eau de cologne — cologne.
- echocardiogram — a graphic record produced by an echocardiograph.
- education page — a page in a newspaper devoted to news relating to education or teaching
- electrogilding — electroplating using gold
- exocrine gland — any gland, such as a salivary or sweat gland, that secretes its products through a duct onto an epithelial surface
- floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
- flood coverage — Flood coverage is insurance coverage for loss or damage caused by floods.
- fluid coupling — Machinery. an apparatus in which a fluid, usually oil, transmits torque from one shaft to another, producing an equal torque in the other shaft.
- food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
- food combining — a dietary approach that advocates the eating of specific foods at specific times and restricts which types of foods can be eaten together.
- forced landing — aircraft: emergency descent
- forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
- french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
- fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
- galeopithecoid — of or resembling a flying lemur
- garda síochána — the police force of the Republic of Ireland
- garden produce — cultivated or farm-produced goods, such as fruit and vegetables
- gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
- geodemographic — Of or pertaining to geography and demography.
- give credit to — to have confidence or trust in; believe
- glacial period — Also called glacial period, ice age. the geologically recent Pleistocene Epoch, during which much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered by great ice sheets.
- global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- glucocorticoid — any of a class of steroid hormones that are synthesized by the adrenal cortex of vertebrates and have anti-inflammatory activity.
- glycaemic load — an index indicating the amount of carbohydrate contained in a specified serving of a particular food. It is calculated by multiplying the food's glycaemic index by its carbohydrate content in grams and then dividing by 100
- glycosidically — In a glycosidic manner; by means of a glycoside.
- glyoxylic acid — a water-soluble crystalline compound, C 2 H 2 O 3 , that is an intermediate in photorespiration in plants.
- godoy alcayaga — Lucila [Spanish loo-see-lah] /Spanish luˈsi lɑ/ (Show IPA) real name of Gabriela Mistral.
- golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
- golden section — a ratio between two portions of a line, or the two dimensions of a plane figure, in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both: a ratio of approximately 0.618 to 1.000.
- gonadectomized — Having undergone gonadectomy.
- goncalves dias — Antonio [an-taw-nyoo] /ɛ̃ˈtɔ nyʊ/ (Show IPA), 1823–64, Brazilian poet.
- gouda (cheese) — a mild, semisoft to hard cheese similar to Edam and sometimes coated with red wax
- gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
- grade crossing — an intersection of a railroad track and another track, a road, etc., at the same level.
- grade-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.
- grand junction — a city in W Colorado.
- grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
- grid capacitor — a capacitor connected in series with the grid.
- ground control — an airport facility that supervises the movement of aircraft and ground vehicles on ramps and taxiways.
- ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
- group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
- group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- high-card pool — red dog.
- 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.