14-letter words containing c, o, n, g, s
- cycling shorts — tight-fitting shorts reaching partway to the knee for cycling, sport, etc
- cyclooxygenase — (enzyme) Any of several enzymes that catalyze the conversion of arachidonic acid into prostaglandins; their inhibition is the mode of action of aspirin and ibuprofen.
- cytogeneticist — One who studies cytogenetics.
- decisionmaking — Alternative form of decision making.
- decompensating — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.
- deconstructing — Present participle of deconstruct.
- depoliticising — Present participle of depoliticise.
- diagnostically — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
- disassociating — to dissociate.
- discomfitingly — In a manner that discomfits.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
- dogmaticalness — The quality of being dogmatical.
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- driving school — vehicle operation lessons
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
- electrogenesis — (biochemistry, physics) The production of electricity in the tissues of a living organism.
- electromagnets — Plural form of electromagnet.
- emergency stop — a sudden application of the brakes in a car, such as the driver would need to carry out in an emergency
- encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
- encompassingly — So as to encompass.
- encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
- eugeosynclinal — of or relating to a eugeosyncline
- fencing school — an academy or school where fencing was taught by fencing masters
- ferry crossing — the act or instance of travelling across the sea by ferry
- floating stock — stock not held for permanent investment and hence available for speculation; stock held by brokers and speculators rather than investors.
- floorcoverings — Plural form of floorcovering.
- flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
- focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
- forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
- francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
- fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
- galactic noise — unidentified radio-frequency radiation originating from beyond the solar system.
- galvanoplastic — pertaining to reproduction by electrotypy.
- garda síochána — the police force of the Republic of Ireland
- gascoyne-cecil — Robert Arthur Talbot [tawl-buh t] /ˈtɔl bət/ (Show IPA), 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, Salisbury (def 1).
- geognostically — with reference to a knowledge of the structure of the earth
- geolinguistics — the study of the geographical distribution of languages
- geosynchronous — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
- gerontocracies — Plural form of gerontocracy.
- gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
- get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
- gibbs function — the thermodynamic function of a system that is equal to its enthalpy minus the product of its absolute temperture and entropy: a decrease in the function is equal to the maximum amount of work available exclusive of that due to pressure times volume change during a reversible, isothermal, isobaric process.
- gingivectomies — Plural form of gingivectomy.
- give sb notice — If an employer gives an employee notice, the employer tells the employee that he or she must leave his or her job within a short fixed period of time.
- glans-clitoris — the head of the penis (glans penis) or of the clitoris (glans clitoris)
- glycogenolysis — (biochemistry) The production of glucose-1-phosphate by splitting a glucose monomer from glycogen using inorganic phosphate.