14-letter words containing c, o, u, n
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
- gamma function — a function defined by Γ(x) = ∫0∞tx–1e–tdt, where x is real and greater than zero
- garden produce — cultivated or farm-produced goods, such as fruit and vegetables
- gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
- geiger counter — an instrument for detecting ionizing radiations, consisting of a gas-filled tube in which electric-current pulses are produced when the gas is ionized by radiation, and of a device to register these pulses: used chiefly to measure radioactivity.
- geolinguistics — the study of the geographical distribution of languages
- geosynchronous — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
- gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
- get the bounce — to dismiss or be dismissed from a job
- gibbs function — the thermodynamic function of a system that is equal to its enthalpy minus the product of its absolute temperture and entropy: a decrease in the function is equal to the maximum amount of work available exclusive of that due to pressure times volume change during a reversible, isothermal, isobaric process.
- golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
- gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
- grand junction — a city in W Colorado.
- grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
- ground control — an airport facility that supervises the movement of aircraft and ground vehicles on ramps and taxiways.
- ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
- group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
- group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
- gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
- gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
- gynomonoecious — having both female and hermaphrodite flowers on the same plant.
- half-conscious — aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
- hallucinations — Plural form of hallucination.
- hallucinogenic — producing hallucinations: a hallucinogenic drug.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- heat conductor — a material or device that conducts heat
- hellaciousness — Quality of being hellacious.
- herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
- heterochronous — a genetic shift in timing of the development of a tissue or anatomical part, or in the onset of a physiological process, relative to an ancestor.
- holy communion — communion (def 1).
- home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
- honey-coloured — having the colour of honey
- honours course — a degree course at honours level
- hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
- horse chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
- horse-chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
- 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.
- humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
- humidification — to make humid.
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hyperconscious — acutely aware.
- ichthyocentaur — a sea creature with a human head and torso, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a fish.
- ichthyosaurian — (paleontology) Of or relating to the Ichthyosauria.
- immune complex — an aggregate of an antigen and its specific antibody.
- immunochemical — Pertaining to immunochemistry.
- 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.