15-letter words containing c, o, g, s
- glossographical — relating to glossography
- gloucester city — a city in W New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
- gloucestershire — a county in SW England. 1255 sq. mi. (2640 sq. km). County seat: Gloucester.
- glucocorticoids — Plural form of glucocorticoid.
- gluconeogenesis — glucose formation in animals from a noncarbohydrate source, as from proteins or fats.
- glyconeogenesis — gluconeogenesis.
- gnome computers — (company) A small UK hardware and software company. They make transputer boards for the Acorn Archimedes among other things. E-mail: Chris Stenton <[email protected]>.
- go the distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- gold prospector — a person who searches for the natural occurrence of gold
- goldilocks zone — a zone around a star having temperatures and other conditions that can support life on planets: Mars is thought to lie on the outer edge of the sun's Goldilocks zone.
- governing class — the social class that holds the power in a country
- graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
- great recession — the protracted worldwide economic recession following the financial crisis of 2007–08
- gross indecency — sexual offence
- group insurance — life, accident, or health insurance available to a group of persons, as the employees of a company, under a single contract, usually without regard to physical condition or age of the individuals.
- guild socialism — a form of socialism developed in England in the 20th century, emphasizing decentralization of industry and services with control to be vested in autonomous guilds of workers.
- gulf of fonseca — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in W Central America
- hedgehog cactus — any of various rounded, usually spiny cacti of the genus Echinocereus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having bell-shaped flowers that close at night.
- hedonic damages — compensation based on what the victim of a crime might have earned in the future
- hemangiosarcoma — A fast-growing, highly invasive variety of cancer, a sarcoma arising from the lining of blood vessels, occurring almost exclusively in dogs and rarely in cats.
- hemiglossectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a portion of the tongue.
- high commission — A High Commission is the office where a High Commissioner and his or her staff work, or the group of officials who work there.
- histopathologic — the science dealing with the histological structure of abnormal or diseased tissue; pathological histology.
- historiographic — the body of literature dealing with historical matters; histories collectively.
- homing instinct — an instinct that enables an animal to return home after travelling great distances
- housing project — a publicly built and operated housing development, usually intended for low- or moderate-income tenants, senior citizens, etc.
- hygroscopically — In a hygroscopic way.
- hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- ignition source — An ignition source is a process or event which can cause a fire or explosion.
- ignition switch — (on a vehicle) the part that sets the process of ignition in motion once the ignition key is turned; also a button used for the same purpose
- image-conscious — concerned about the way one comes across to other people and the impression one creates
- interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
- king's champion — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
- kissing cousins — any more or less distant kin familiar enough to be greeted with a kiss, as a cousin (kissing cousin)
- language school — A language school is a private school where a foreign language is taught.
- leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
- legacy software — legacy system
- legal successor — a person or thing that legally follows, esp a person who succeeds another in an office
- lexical scoping — lexical scope
- 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 form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
- logical address — virtual address
- logical atomism — a philosophy developed from linguistic analysis asserting that a proposition can be analyzed into simple, independent elements of meaning corresponding to elements making up basic facts about the world and reality.
- long-case clock — tall-case clock.
- long-sufferance — long-suffering.
- loose chippings — pieces of gravel spread on the top of tarmac that fail to stick to it
- macro-sociology — the sociological study of large-scale social systems and long-term patterns and processes.
- macrosporangium — megasporangium.
- magic mushrooms — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.