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11-letter words containing c, o, n, g, s

  • proceedings — a particular action or course or manner of action.
  • prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
  • prospecting — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
  • psychogenic — having origin in the mind or in a mental condition or process: a psychogenic disorder.
  • psychotogen — a substance that causes a psychotic reaction.
  • pyrognostic — relating to heated minerals
  • ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
  • reaganomics — the economic policies put forth by the administration of President Ronald Reagan, especially as emphasizing supply-side theory.
  • reconsigned — to hand over or deliver formally or officially; commit (often followed by to).
  • sanctioning — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
  • sao goncalo — a city in SE Brazil, NE of Rio de Janeiro.
  • scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
  • scaremonger — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
  • scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • schizogenic — reproducing or formed by fission.
  • schizogonic — relating to schizogony
  • school song — a song which is particular to a school, and which pupils sing at assembly, or on special occasions
  • schoolgoing — the act of going to school
  • 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.
  • schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
  • scientology — the philosophy of the Church of Scientology, a nondenominational movement founded in the US in the 1950s, which emphasizes self-knowledge as a means of realizing full spiritual potential
  • scorchingly — in a scorching manner
  • scuppernong — a silvery amber-green variety of muscadine grape.
  • shortchange — to give less than the correct change to.
  • shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
  • slot racing — the activity of racing slot cars.
  • slow-acting — working or acting slowly, not immediately
  • smoking car — smoker (def 2a).
  • socializing — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
  • sock lining — a thin piece of material, as leather, that is laid on top of the insole of a shoe, boot, or other footwear.
  • somatogenic — developing from somatic cells.
  • speedcoding — (language)   A pseudocode interpreter for mathematics on IBM 701 and IBM 650 written by John Backus in 1953.
  • sponge cake — a light, sweet cake made with a comparatively large proportion of eggs but no shortening.
  • spring lock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
  • stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
  • stockpiling — the activity of acquiring and storing a large quantity of something
  • stocktaking — the examination or counting over of materials or goods on hand, as in a stockroom or store.
  • synoecology — the science of relationships between species
  • telescoping — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
  • tense logic — the study of the logical properties of tense operators, and of the logical relations between sentences having tense, by means of consideration of appropriate formal systems
  • top slicing — mining of thick orebodies in a series of stopes from top to bottom, the roof being caved with its timbers as each stope is exhausted.
  • townscaping — the act of designing a town
  • uncongested — to fill to excess; overcrowd or overburden; clog: The subway entrance was so congested that no one could move.
  • unsagacious — having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd: a sagacious lawyer.
  • vascongadas — Basque Country
  • wainscoting — wood, especially oak and usually in the form of paneling, for lining interior walls.
  • zincographs — Plural form of zincograph.
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