15-letter words containing c, o, g, n
- cineradiography — the filming of motion pictures through a fluoroscope or x-ray machine.
- circumnavigator — A person who circumnavigates; that is, sails around the world.
- clotting factor — any one of a group of substances, including factor VIII, the presence of which in the blood is essential for blood clotting to occur
- cloud computing — Cloud computing is a model of computer use in which services that are available on the Internet are provided to users on a temporary basis.
- coaling station — a port at which vessels can take on coal
- cocktail lounge — A cocktail lounge is a room in a hotel, restaurant, or club where you can buy alcoholic drinks.
- coconut matting — a form of coarse matting made from the fibrous husk of the coconut
- code management — source code management
- coffee granules — instant coffee in the form of grains
- cognitive radio — a radio that can automatically alter frequency, power, modulation, etc, according to where it is located
- collecting bank — a bank that collects money from the account of the writer of a cheque on behalf of the person who has deposited the cheque into the bank
- college pudding — a baked or steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit and spice
- college station — a city in E central Texas.
- college student — a student at a university or college
- colonial siding — siding composed of boards with parallel faces laid horizontally so that the upper overlaps the one below.
- colour sergeant — a sergeant who carries the regimental, battalion, or national colours, as in a colour guard
- come to no good — to come to a bad end; end in failure, trouble, etc.
- come to nothing — plan, idea: fail
- come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
- come up smiling — to recover cheerfully from misfortune
- coming bet ween — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
- commercialising — Present participle of commercialise.
- commercializing — Present participle of commercialize.
- commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
- compassionating — Present participle of compassionate.
- compleat angler — a book on fishing (1653) by Izaak Walton.
- composing stick — a metal holder of adjustable width in which a compositor sets a line of type at a time by hand; now rarely used
- compound engine — a steam engine in which the steam is expanded in more than one stage, first in a high-pressure cylinder and then in one or more low-pressure cylinders
- compound magnet — a magnet consisting of two or more separate magnets placed together with like poles pointing in the same direction.
- comprehendingly — In an comprehending manner; knowingly.
- computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
- conceptualising — Present participle of conceptualise.
- conceptualizing — Present participle of conceptualize.
- concerto grosso — a composition for an orchestra and a group of soloists, chiefly of the baroque period
- concrete jungle — If you refer to a city or area as a concrete jungle, you mean that it has a lot of modern buildings and you think it is ugly or unpleasant to live in.
- condescendingly — In a condescending manner.
- conestoga wagon — a large heavy horse-drawn covered wagon used in the 19th century
- confidence game — A confidence game is the same as a confidence trick.
- configurability — The property of being configurable.
- configurational — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
- congealableness — the quality of being congealable
- congealed salad — a molded gelatin salad containing chopped fruit or vegetables.
- congelifraction — the shattering or splitting of rock or frozen soil due to the action of frost.
- conglomerations — Plural form of conglomeration.
- congratulations — You say 'Congratulations' to someone in order to congratulate them on something nice that has happened to them or something good that they have done.
- congress-people — congressmember.
- congressionally — of or relating to a congress.
- conjuring trick — A conjuring trick is a trick in which something is made to appear or disappear as if by magic.
- connected graph — (mathematics) A graph such that there is a path between any pair of nodes (via zero or more other nodes). Thus if we start from any node and visit all nodes connected to it by a single edge, then all nodes connected to any of them, and so on, then we will eventually have visited every node in the connected graph.
- constable glass — a drinking glass of the 18th century, having a heavy foot, a tall body, and a capacity of 1 quart (0.946 liters).