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

  • hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • hippocampal gyrus — a convolution on the inner surface of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum, bordering the hippocampus.
  • housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
  • illegal procedure — a penalty assessed against the offensive team for a technical rules violation, as in assuming an illegal formation.
  • immunodiagnostics — the determination of immunologic characteristics of individuals, cells, and other biologic entities.
  • in the background — behind the focus of attention
  • induction heating — a method of heating a conducting material, as metal in a furnace, by using electromagnetic induction to establish a current in the material.
  • integral function — an entire function.
  • integrated course — a course that covers several subjects
  • jumping-off place — a place for use as a starting point: Paris was the jumping-off place for our tour of Europe.
  • lago de nicaragua — Spanish name of Lake Nicaragua.
  • macro-linguistics — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
  • magellanic clouds — either of two irregular galactic clusters in the southern heavens that are the nearest independent star system to the Milky Way.
  • management course — a course provided by an educational establishment such as a university, which teaches skills concerning the management of a company, business, etc
  • many-valued logic — the study of logical systems in which the truth-values that a proposition may have are not restricted to two, representing only truth and falsity
  • medicochirurgical — pertaining to medicine and surgery.
  • mercury poisoning — illness caused by exposure to mercury
  • messier catalogue — a catalogue of 103 nonstellar objects, such as nebulae and galaxies, prepared in 1781–86. An object is referred to by its number in this catalogue, for example the Andromeda Galaxy is referred to as M31
  • molecular biology — the branch of biology that deals with the nature of biological phenomena at the molecular level through the study of DNA and RNA, proteins, and other macromolecules involved in genetic information and cell function, characteristically making use of advanced tools and techniques of separation, manipulation, imaging, and analysis.
  • monkeygland sauce — a piquant sauce, made from tomatoes, ketchup, fruit chutney, garlic, spices, etc
  • multiple cropping — the use of the same field for two or more crops, whether of the same or of different kinds, successively during a single year.
  • neurobiologically — In terms of or by means of neurobiology.
  • neuropathological — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or arising from neuropathology, the pathology of nerve tissue.
  • neuropharmacology — the branch of pharmacology concerned with the effects of drugs on the nervous system.
  • neuropsychologist — A neurologist or psychologist whose speciality is neuropsychology.
  • norwegian current — an ocean current formed from the terminus of the North Atlantic Current, flowing N along the Norwegian coast into the Barents Sea.
  • on second thought — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
  • optical computing — (hardware)   (Or "Optical Signal Processing") Operating on data represented using electromagnetic radiation, e.g. visible light, instead of the electrical signals used in a conventional electronic digital computer. Electronic digital computers are built from transistors. These form components that store data and logic gates that perform the low-level Boolean operations such as AND, OR and NOT that are the basis of all digital computation. The optical equivalent requires material with a non-linear refractive index such that light beams can interact with each other to perform the same Boolean operations. Though the photons that carry optical signals offer some theoretical advantages over the electrons that carry electronic signals, there are many practical problems that would have to be overcome before optical computing could compete in terms of cost, power and speed.
  • organ-pipe cactus — a treelike or columnar cactus, Lemaireocereus marginatus, of Mexico, having a central, erect spine surrounded by spreading spines in clusters of five to eight, and funnel-shaped, brownish-purple flowers.
  • osculating circle — circle of curvature.
  • overnight success — sth or sb suddenly popular
  • performance drugs — the drugs that are taken illegally by athletes to enhance their sporting performance
  • phonological rule — an operation in generative phonology that substitutes one sound or class of sounds for another in a phonological derivation.
  • ploughman's lunch — a light lunch consisting of bread and cheese, and sometimes pickled onions.
  • political refugee — a person who has fled from a homeland because of political persecution.
  • positive eugenics — the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics)
  • pre-configuration — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • prerogative court — a former ecclesiastical court in England and Ireland for the trial of certain testamentary cases.
  • prescription drug — medication available only on doctor's instruction
  • production string — A production string is the series of pipes through which the oil or gas is brought up from the reservoir.
  • pseudo-biological — pertaining to biology.
  • psycholinguistics — the study of the relationship between language and the cognitive or behavioral characteristics of those who use it.
  • pyroligneous acid — a yellowish, acidic, water-soluble liquid, containing about 10 percent acetic acid, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood: used for smoking meats.
  • quantum computing — quantum computer
  • recreation ground — an open space for public recreation, esp one in a town, with swings and slides, etc, for children
  • recreational drug — drug taken for pleasure
  • recruiting office — an office where staff are recruited, esp by the military
  • returning officer — a public official appointed to conduct and preside at an election.
  • sanctions-busting — the deliberate disregarding of sanctions that are in force against a state, organization, etc
  • saxe-coburg-gotha — a member of the present British royal family, from the establishment of the house in 1901 until 1917 when the family name was changed to Windsor.
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