12-letter words containing c, o, u, g
- crowdfunding — Crowdfunding is when a large number of people each give an amount of money to pay for a project, especially by using a website to collect the money.
- cryoglobulin — an abnormal immunoglobulin, present in the blood in certain diseases, that precipitates below about 10°C, obstructing small blood vessels in the fingers and toes
- cryosurgical — of or relating to cryosurgery
- cryptogamous — Of or pertaining to the cryptogams.
- cryptozygous — having the skull broad and the face narrow.
- cuckoo's egg — The Cuckoo's Egg
- curling iron — A curling iron is a metal device, resembling scissors, that you heat and use to form curls in your hair.
- curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- currycombing — Present participle of currycomb.
- cut up rough — to become angry or bad-tempered
- cutting room — The cutting room in a film production company is the place where the film is edited.
- cutting tool — A cutting tool is a pointed tool mounted in a machine tool and used for cutting materials.
- cycling tour — a holiday involving a tour of an area or region by bicycle
- discongruity — incongruity.
- discouraging — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- dodecagynous — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- electron gun — a heated cathode with an associated system of electrodes and coils for producing and focusing a beam of electrons, used esp in cathode-ray tubes
- encountering — Present participle of encounter.
- equivocating — Present participle of equivocate.
- etymologicum — an etymological dictionary
- eulogistical — Alternative form of eulogistic.
- excursioning — Present participle of excursion.
- factor group — quotient group.
- flocculating — Present participle of flocculate.
- fudge factor — any variable component added to an experiment, plan, or the like that can be manipulated to allow leeway for error.
- galactagogue — A food or drug that promotes or increases the flow of a mother’s milk.
- gallinaceous — pertaining to or resembling the domestic fowls.
- gap junction — a linkage of two adjacent cells consisting of a system of channels extending across a gap from one cell to the other, allowing the passage of ions and small molecules.
- geniculation — the state of being geniculate.
- genuflection — an act of bending the knee or touching it to the ground in reverence or worship.
- geraniaceous — belonging to the Geraniaceae, the geranium family of plants.
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- get in touch — make contact
- gift voucher — gift certificate.
- give suck to — to give (a baby or young animal) milk from the breast or udder
- glaucomatous — Ophthalmology. abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye, most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains (open-angle glaucoma or chronic glaucoma) or by pressure of the iris against the lens, which traps the aqueous humor (angle-closure glaucoma or acute glaucoma)
- glaucousness — Quality of being glaucous.
- glucogenesis — the production of glucose by the decomposition of glycogen or from any nonglucose precursor.
- glucoprotein — glycoprotein.
- gospel music — a now popularized form of impassioned rhythmic spiritual music rooted in the solo and responsive church singing of rural blacks in the American South, central to the development of rhythm and blues and of soul music.
- graciousness — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- grand coulee — a dry canyon in central Washington: cut by the Columbia River in the glacial period. 52 miles (84 km) long; over 400 feet (120 meters) deep.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- granulocytic — Of, or pertaining to, granulocytes.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground cedar — a ground pine, Lycopodium complanatum.
- ground cloth — groundsheet.