11-letter words containing c, o, g, u
- prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
- psychagogue — a necromancer
- public good — benefit of all people
- quangocracy — Rule by quangos or similar unelected bodies. (from 20th c.).
- quindecagon — a polygon having 15 angles and 15 sides.
- ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
- recatalogue — to catalogue (something, such as a book or collection of books) again
- reconfigure — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- refuctoring — (humour, programming) Taking a well-designed piece of code and, through a series of small, reversible changes, making it completely unmaintainable by anyone except yourself. The term is a humourous play on the term refactoring and was coined by Jason Gorman in a pub in 2002. Refuctoring techniques include: Using Pig Latin as a naming convention. Stating The Bleeding Obvious - writing comments that paraphrase the code (e.g., "declare an integer called I with an initial value of zero"). Module Gravity Well - adding all new code to the biggest module. Unique Modeling Language - inventing your own visual notation. Treasure Hunt - Writing code consisting mostly of references to other code and documents that reference other documents. Rainy Day Module - writing spare code just in case somebody needs it later.
- reoccurring — to happen; take place; come to pass: When did the accident occur?
- rock gunnel — any small eellike blenny of the family Pholididae (Pholidae), especially Pholis gunnellus (rock gunnel) common in shallow waters of the North Atlantic.
- rouge croix — a pursuivant at the English college of arms
- rough music — (formerly) a loud cacophony created with tin pans, drums, etc, esp as a protest or demonstration of indignation outside someone's house
- rowing club — rowboat association
- sarcophagus — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
- scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
- scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- scuppernong — a silvery amber-green variety of muscadine grape.
- space group — a set of symmetry elements that brings a periodic arrangement of points on a Bravais space lattice to its original position.
- specialogue — a mail-order catalogue aimed at a specific group of customers
- stock guard — a barrier for keeping cattle and other animals off the tracks or right of way.
- subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.
- sugarcoated — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
- suicidology — the study of the causes and prevention of suicide.
- thoughtcast — a mode of thought
- toe-curling — If you describe something as toe-curling, you mean that it makes you feel very embarrassed.
- touch judge — one of the two linesmen in rugby
- touch rugby — a limited-contact version of rugby in which players seek to evade being touched (rather than tackled) while in possession of the ball
- tough pitch — the state of refined copper when it is soft, malleable, and flexible: tough pitch copper.
- touring car — an open automobile designed for five or more passengers.
- tumorigenic — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
- turbocharge — to equip (an internal-combustion engine) with a turbocharger.
- ulcerogenic — producing or inducing the formation of an ulcer.
- unalachtigo — a member of a North American Indian people, one of the Delaware group.
- uncognizant — having cognizance; aware (usually followed by of): He was cognizant of the difficulty.
- uncomplying — to act or be in accordance with wishes, requests, demands, requirements, conditions, etc.; agree (sometimes followed by with): They asked him to leave and he complied. She has complied with the requirements.
- uncongenial — agreeable, suitable, or pleasing in nature or character: congenial surroundings.
- uncongested — to fill to excess; overcrowd or overburden; clog: The subway entrance was so congested that no one could move.
- unconniving — not conniving
- unconverged — to tend to meet in a point or line; incline toward each other, as lines that are not parallel.
- unreckoning — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- unrejoicing — not joyful; sad
- unsagacious — having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd: a sagacious lawyer.
- unwelcoming — not friendly, hostile
- vulcanology — volcanology.
- zygomaticus — (anatomy) One of several small subcutaneous facial muscles arising from or in relation with the zygoma.