15-letter words containing c, o, r, i, g
- counter-sinking — to enlarge the upper part of (a cavity), especially by chamfering, to receive the cone-shaped head of a screw, bolt, etc.
- counteractingly — In a way that counteracts.
- countercampaign — a campaign responding to another campaign
- countercharging — Present participle of countercharge.
- countercharming — Present participle of countercharm.
- counterchecking — Present participle of countercheck.
- counterclaiming — Present participle of counterclaim.
- counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
- countermarching — Present participle of countermarch.
- counterplotting — Present participle of counterplot.
- counterpointing — Present participle of counterpoint.
- counterpunching — Present participle of counterpunch.
- counterrotating — (of two corresponding or similar moving parts) rotating in opposite directions: counterrotating propellers.
- counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
- counting number — natural number
- country dancing — Country dancing is traditional dancing in which people dance in rows or circles.
- courting couple — a pair of lovers
- courting mirror — a small mirror of c1800 having a border and cresting of glass painted with leaves and flowers in imitation of a Chinese style.
- covering letter — A covering letter is a letter that you send with a parcel or with another letter in order to provide extra information.
- cracked gas oil — Cracked gas oil is a gas oil which is formed as one of the products of a gas reaction.
- crawling horror — (jargon) Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site. Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity. "Mostly we code new stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror." Compare WOMBAT.
- cricopharyngeal — of, relating to, or involving the cricoid cartilage and the pharynx.
- cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
- crisis theology — a neoorthodox theology, advocated by Karl Barth and others, emphasizing the absolute necessity of faith and divine revelation in transcending the personal crisis, common to all humankind, that arises from the contradictions inherent in human nature and in the social order.
- critical region — that part of a statistical distribution in which the probability of a given hypothesis is less than the chosen significance level, so that the hypothesis would be rejected
- croix de guerre — a French military decoration awarded for gallantry in battle: established 1915
- crossing patrol — a person who holds up the traffic so that school children can cross the road safely
- crosslinguistic — relating to different languages
- crossopterygian — any bony fish of the subclass Crossopterygii, having fleshy limblike pectoral fins. The group, now mostly extinct, contains the ancestors of the amphibians
- crustaceologist — One who studies crustaceology.
- cryptographical — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
- cryptozoologist — an expert in cryptozoology
- cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
- customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
- cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
- data processing — Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
- deconcentrating — Present participle of deconcentrate.
- demographically — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
- dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
- design recovery — (process) A subtask of reverse engineering in which domain knowledge, external information, and deduction of fuzzy reasoning are added to the observations of the subject system to identify meaningful higher level abstractions beyond those obtained directly by examining the system itself. In other words, design recovery aims to work out what a system or component was designed to do rather than just examining its subcomponents and their interrelationships.
- desynchronizing — Present participle of desynchronize.
- direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
- direction angle — an angle made by a given vector and a coordinate axis.
- disconcertingly — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
- dishcloth gourd — loofah (def 1).
- drawing account — an account used by a partner or employee for cash withdrawals.
- drying-up cloth — a tea towel
- dynamic routing — (networking) (Or "adaptive routing") Routing that adjusts automatically to network topology or traffic changes.
- echocardiograms — Plural form of echocardiogram.
- echocardiograph — an instrument employing reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the structures and functioning of the heart.