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

  • gynomonoecious — having both female and hermaphrodite flowers on the same plant.
  • hallucinogenic — producing hallucinations: a hallucinogenic drug.
  • happy-go-lucky — trusting cheerfully to luck; happily unworried or unconcerned.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • housing scheme — arrangement offering subsidized housing
  • huffman coding — (algorithm)   A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
  • ichthyophagous — the practice of eating or subsisting on fish.
  • immunogenetics — the branch of immunology dealing with the study of immunity in relation to genetic makeup.
  • immunogenicity — causing or capable of producing an immune response.
  • incongruencies — Plural form of incongruency.
  • incontiguously — in an incontiguous or unconnected fashion; discretely
  • isocyano group — the univalent group −NC.
  • judge advocate — a staff officer designated as legal adviser to a commander and charged with the administration of military justice.
  • juicing orange — an orange that is grown especially for its juice, for example the Valencia orange
  • junior college — a collegiate institution offering courses only through the first one or two years of college instruction and granting a certificate of title instead of a degree.
  • kangaroo court — a self-appointed or mob-operated tribunal that disregards or parodies existing principles of law or human rights, especially one in a frontier area or among criminals in prison.
  • king's counsel — a body of barristers of a higher status who are specially appointed to be the crown's counsel, and who are permitted to plead inside the bar in the court.
  • kissing cousin — any more or less distant kin familiar enough to be greeted with a kiss, as a cousin (kissing cousin)
  • lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • legal document — a document concerning a legal matter; a document drawn up by a lawyer
  • light-coloured — having a light colour
  • lignocellulose — any of various compounds of lignin and cellulose comprising the essential part of woody cell walls.
  • logic emulator — A system of FPGAs, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, such as a microprocessor. An emulated design can be connected into the target system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an integrated circuit.
  • logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
  • lu-wang school — School of Mind.
  • luggage locker — a large locker at a transport terminal or airport where luggage can be left temporarily
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
  • magic mountain — a novel (1924) by Thomas Mann.
  • magic mushroom — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
  • malfunctioning — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
  • malpighiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical plants many of which are lianas
  • margaritaceous — resembling mother-of-pearl; pearly.
  • margin account — an account opened by a customer with a brokerage house in which listed securities can be purchased on margin.
  • mercapto group — the univalent group –SH.
  • microcomputing — the use of microcomputers.
  • miscounselling — the act of giving bad or incorrect counselling
  • misgovernaunce — misgovernment
  • mispronouncing — Present participle of mispronounce.
  • mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • mounting-block — a block of stone formerly used to aid a person when mounting a horse
  • mourning cloak — a common butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) having purplish-brown wings with a wide yellow border, found throughout Europe and North America
  • moving picture — A moving picture is a film.
  • mulching mower — a lawn mower that shreds blades of grass into very small pieces that are left on the lawn to decay and return moisture and nutrients to the soil
  • museologically — In a museological manner.
  • myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.
  • neolinguistics — a school of linguistics centered in Italy emphasizing the importance of linguistic geography in diachronic studies.
  • neurocognition — Any form of cognition that is associated with the functioning of one or more specific areas of the brain.
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