12-letter words containing c, o, g, u
- 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.
- groupuscules — Plural form of groupuscule.
- growth curve — a curve on a graph in which a variable is plotted against time to illustrate the growth of the variable
- gum ammoniac — a brownish-yellow gum resin, having an acrid taste, occurring in tearlike fragments from a plant, Dorema ammoniacum, of western Asia: used in porcelain ceramics and in medicine as an expectorant and counterirritant.
- gut of canso — Canso (def 2).
- gut reaction — instinctive response
- gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
- hallucinogen — a substance that produces hallucinations.
- high country — a mountainous area below the timberline; a forested mountain area.
- in-congruent — not congruent.
- incoagulable — of a nature that cannot be coagulated
- income group — a group in a given population having incomes within a certain range
- inconcluding — (obsolete) Inferring no consequence.
- incongruence — not congruent.
- incongruency — Incongruence.
- incontiguous — not continuous; unconnected; discrete
- inosculating — Present participle of inosculate.
- king's scout — (in Great Britain) a boy scout who has achieved the highest level of scouting: similar to the U.S. eagle scout.
- loganiaceous — belonging to the plant family Loganiaceae.
- logical unit — (networking) (LU) A primary component of SNA, an LU is a type of NAU that enables end users to communicate with each other and gain access to SNA network resources.
- long account — the account of a customer who buys securities or commodities on margin.
- longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
- lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
- lounge music — a type of popular music often including jazz, swing, and pop elements and played in cocktail lounges, piano bars, etc.
- macrophagous — (of an animal) feeding on relatively large particles of food
- 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.
- microphagous — (of an animal) feeding on small particles of food
- microsurgeon — a person who performs microsurgery
- microsurgery — any of various surgical procedures performed under magnification and with small specialized instruments, permitting very delicate operations, as the reconnection of severed blood vessels and nerves.
- misconfigure — Configure (a system or part of it) incorrectly.
- misconjugate — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
- much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something
- mucilaginous — of, relating to, or secreting mucilage.
- museological — Pertaining to museology.
- musicologist — the scholarly or scientific study of music, as in historical research, musical theory, or the physical nature of sound.
- necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
- neurogenetic — (medicine) Of or pertaining to neurogenetics, the study of the genetic basis of nerve and brain function.
- neurological — the science of the nerves and the nervous system, especially of the diseases affecting them.
- non-conjugal — of, relating to, or characteristic of marriage: conjugal vows.
- noncongruent — agreeing; accordant; congruous.
- nonconjugate — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
- nonconsuming — not consuming a resource, product, or service
- nonproducing — that does not produce
- nonrecurring — not occurring or happening again, especially often or periodically.
- not counting — excluding
- nothing much — not a lot
- offscourings — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.