16-letter words containing c, o, g
- george mcclellan — George Brinton [brin-tn] /ˈbrɪn tn/ (Show IPA), 1826–85, Union general in the American Civil War.
- geostrophic wind — a wind whose velocity and direction are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
- german cockroach — a common yellowish-brown cockroach, Blatta germanica, brought into the U.S. from Europe.
- get on your wick — If you say that someone or something gets on your wick, you mean that they annoy and irritate you.
- gilt-edged stock — government stock on which interest payments will certainly be met and that will certainly be repaid at par on the due date
- global community — the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent
- globular cluster — a comparatively older, spherically symmetrical, compact group of up to a million old stars, held together by mutual gravitation, that are located in the galactic halo and move in giant and highly eccentric orbits around the galactic center.
- glottochronology — the branch of lexicostatistics that studies the rate of replacement of vocabulary and attempts to determine what percentage of basic vocabulary two presently distinct but related languages share, using the information thus obtained to estimate how long ago they ceased being a single language.
- glycosylceramide — (organic chemistry) Any glycosyl derivative of a ceramide.
- gold certificate — a former U.S. paper currency issued by the federal government for circulation from 1865 to 1933, equal to and redeemable for gold to a stated value.
- gold-headed cane — a long thin stick with a curved or round top made of gold
- golden delicious — a bright yellow type of Delicious apple.
- golden handcuffs — payments deferred over a number of years that induce a person to stay with a particular company or in a particular job
- golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
- goolagong cawley — Evonne [ih-von,, ee-von] /ɪˈvɒn,, iˈvɒn/ (Show IPA), born 1951, Australian tennis player.
- gossip columnist — a person who writes a gossip column
- government stock — stock issued by the UK or another national government
- grace-and-favour — (of a house, flat, etc) owned by the sovereign and granted free of rent to a person to whom the sovereign wishes to express gratitude
- gram atomic mass — the quantity of an element whose weight in grams is numerically equal to the atomic weight of the element.
- granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
- graphics adaptor — (hardware, graphics) (Or "graphics adapter", "graphics card", "video adaptor", etc.) A circuit board fitted to a computer, especially an IBM PC, containing the necessary video memory and other electronics to provide a bitmap display. Adaptors vary in the resolution (number of pixels) and number of colours they can display, and in the refresh rate they support. These parameters are also limited by the monitor to which the adaptor is connected. A number of such display standards, e.g. SVGA, have become common and different software requires or supports different sets.
- green cross code — (in Britain) a code for children giving rules for road safety: first issued in 1971
- green woodpecker — a woodpecker, Picus viridis, of Eurasia and northern Africa, having green plumage with a yellow rump and red on the top of the head.
- greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
- grid declination — the angular difference between true north and grid north on a map
- gross misconduct — a proven crime in connection with employment that is serious enough to require dismissal
- gross negligence — extreme carelessness that shows wilful or reckless disregard for the consequences to the safety or property of another
- ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
- growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
- guaranteed stock — stock for which dividends are guaranteed by a company other than the one issuing the stock.
- gun control laws — the laws that restrict the possession and use of guns
- gyratory crusher — A gyratory crusher is a crusher in which a cone-shaped rod rotates in a cone-shaped bowl.
- hard rock mining — (loosely) of or relating to igneous or metamorphic rocks, as in mining (hard-rock mining) and geology (hard-rock geology)
- hardrock geology — (loosely) of or relating to igneous or metamorphic rocks, as in mining (hard-rock mining) and geology (hard-rock geology)
- heralds' college — a royal corporation in England, instituted in 1483, concerned chiefly with armorial bearings, genealogies, honors, and precedence.
- hieroglyphically — In hieroglyphics.
- high court judge — a judge who sits in the High Court
- high-compression — of a modern type of internal-combustion engine designed so that the fuel mixture is compressed into a smaller cylinder space, resulting in more pressure on the pistons and more power
- high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
- higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
- holographic will — a will that is entirely in the handwriting of the testator: in some states recognized as valid without the attestation of witnesses.
- homeric laughter — loud, hearty laughter, as of the gods.
- horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
- horsetail agaric — the shaggy-mane.
- hot cold-working — metalworking at considerable heat but below the temperature at which the metal recrystallizes: a form of cold-working.
- huffman encoding — Huffman coding
- huntington beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
- hydrogen cyanide — a colorless poisonous gas, HCN, having a bitter almondlike odor: in aqueous solution it forms hydrocyanic acid.
- hydrologic cycle — the natural sequence through which water passes into the atmosphere as water vapor, precipitates to earth in liquid or solid form, and ultimately returns to the atmosphere through evaporation.
- hyperconjugation — (organic chemistry) A weak form of conjugation in which single bonds interact with a conjugated system.