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11-letter words containing c, o, u, g

  • crinigerous — having hair; hairy
  • cropdusting — the spreading of fungicide, etc on crops in the form of dust, often from an aircraft
  • croquignole — a small crisp cake
  • cryosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in cryosurgery
  • cryosurgery — surgery involving the local destruction of tissues by quick freezing for therapeutic benefit
  • culturology — a branch of anthropology concerned with the study of cultural institutions as distinct from the people who are involved in them.
  • curmudgeons — Plural form of curmudgeon.
  • customizing — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
  • cut through — to penetrate or go through by cutting
  • cutting oil — a specially prepared oil used as a cutting fluid.
  • cyano group — the univalent group CN; cyanogen.
  • cystogenous — forming or secreting cysts
  • cytophagous — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
  • dichogamous — having the stamens and pistils maturing at different times, thereby preventing self-pollination, as a monoclinous flower (opposed to homogamous).
  • disc plough — a plough that cuts by means of revolving steel discs
  • discounting — Present participle of discount.
  • discouraged — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
  • discourager — One who discourages.
  • discourages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discourage.
  • discoursing — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
  • disgracious — Lacking grace; not pleasing; disagreeable.
  • documenting — Present participle of document.
  • dog biscuit — a hard biscuit for dogs, usually containing ground meat, bones, etc.
  • dog curtain — a flap on a canvas cover for a binnacle, affording a view of the compass when raised.
  • duo-decagon — dodecagon.
  • eagle scout — a boy scout who has achieved the highest rank in U.S. scouting.
  • encouraging — Giving someone support or confidence; supportive.
  • euchologion — a collection of prayers
  • finno-ugric — the major branch of the Uralic family of languages, subdivided into Finnic, which includes Finnish and Estonian, and Ugric, which includes Hungarian.
  • fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
  • focus group — a representative group of people questioned together about their opinions on political issues, consumer products, etc.
  • functioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • furthcoming — an action raised to recover property which has been arrested in the hands of a third party
  • fuzzy logic — A superset of Boolean logic dealing with the concept of partial truth -- truth values between "completely true" and "completely false". It was introduced by Dr. Lotfi Zadeh of UCB in the 1960's as a means to model the uncertainty of natural language. Any specific theory may be generalised from a discrete (or "crisp") form to a continuous (fuzzy) form, e.g. "fuzzy calculus", "fuzzy differential equations" etc. Fuzzy logic replaces Boolean truth values with degrees of truth which are very similar to probabilities except that they need not sum to one. Instead of an assertion pred(X), meaning that X definitely has the property associated with predicate "pred", we have a truth function truth(pred(X)) which gives the degree of truth that X has that property. We can combine such values using the standard definitions of fuzzy logic: truth(not x) = 1.0 - truth(x) truth(x and y) = minimum (truth(x), truth(y)) truth(x or y) = maximum (truth(x), truth(y)) (There are other possible definitions for "and" and "or", e.g. using sum and product). If truth values are restricted to 0 and 1 then these functions behave just like their Boolean counterparts. This is known as the "extension principle". Just as a Boolean predicate asserts that its argument definitely belongs to some subset of all objects, a fuzzy predicate gives the degree of truth with which its argument belongs to a fuzzy subset. E-mail servers: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>.
  • gas vacuole — a gas-filled structure that provides buoyancy in some aquatic bacteria
  • genius loci — the guardian spirit of a place.
  • glauconitic — a greenish micaceous mineral consisting essentially of a hydrous silicate of potassium, aluminum, and iron and occurring in greensand, clays, etc.
  • glaucophane — a sodium-rich monoclinic mineral of the amphibole family, usually metamorphic.
  • glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
  • glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
  • glucosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides.
  • glucuronide — a glycoside that yields glucuronic acid upon hydrolysis.
  • glycogenous — of or relating to the formation of sugar in the liver.
  • go to court — to take legal action
  • goatsuckers — Plural form of goatsucker.
  • golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
  • golden club — an aquatic plant, Orontium aquaticum, of the arum family, native to the eastern U.S., having blue-green leaves and a clublike spadix covered with tiny yellow flowers.
  • golf course — the ground or course over which golf is played. A standard full-scale golf course has 125 to 175 acres (51 to 71 hectares), usually with 18 holes varying from 100 to 650 yards (91 to 594 meters) in length from tee to cup.
  • granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.
  • grass court — an outdoor tennis court having a grass surface.
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