15-letter words containing c, y, g, n
- crunchy granola — crisp; brittle.
- crunchy-granola — characterized by or defining oneself by ecological awareness, liberal political views, and support or use of natural products and health foods.
- crystal healing — (in alternative therapy) the use of the supposed power of crystals to affect the human energy field
- cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking) The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
- cybertechnology — Computer technology, especially that which involves the Internet or cyberspace.
- cycling clothes — special clothes, such as lycra shorts, suitable for cycling in
- cycling holiday — a holiday in which one cycles between destinations
- cycloneolignane — (organic chemistry) Any neolignane having an additional ring.
- cytogenetically — (medicine, biology) By means or in terms of cytogenetics, the genetics of the cell.
- degree ceremony — a ceremony at which university degrees are awarded
- delaying action — a measure or measures taken to gain time, as when weaker military forces harass the advance of a superior enemy without coming to a pitched battle
- delaying tactic — Delaying tactics are things that someone does in order to deliberately delay the start or progress of something.
- design recovery — (process) A subtask of reverse engineering in which domain knowledge, external information, and deduction of fuzzy reasoning are added to the observations of the subject system to identify meaningful higher level abstractions beyond those obtained directly by examining the system itself. In other words, design recovery aims to work out what a system or component was designed to do rather than just examining its subcomponents and their interrelationships.
- desynchronizing — Present participle of desynchronize.
- disconcertingly — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
- disenchantingly — In a disenchanting manner.
- drying-up cloth — a tea towel
- dynamic binding — The property of object-oriented programming languages where the code executed to perform a given operation is determined at run time from the class of the operand(s) (the receiver of the message). There may be several different classes of objects which can receive a given message. An expression may denote an object which may have more than one possible class and that class can only be determined at run time. New classes may be created that can receive a particular message, without changing (or recompiling) the code which sends the message. An class may be created that can receive any set of existing messages. One important reason for having dynamic binding is that it provides a mechanism for selecting between alternatives which is arguably more robust than explicit selection by conditionals or pattern matching. When a new subclass is added, or an existing subclass changes, the necessary modifications are localised: you don't have incomplete conditionals and broken patterns scattered all over the program. See overloading.
- dynamic pricing — the practice of offering goods at a price that changes according to the level of demand, the type of customer, the state of the weather, etc
- dynamic routing — (networking) (Or "adaptive routing") Routing that adjusts automatically to network topology or traffic changes.
- dynamic scoping — dynamic scope
- egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
- emergency brake — hand brake in car
- emergency force — a group of soldiers whose job it is to respond to emergencies: for example, to keep order, or to deliver food and medical supplies in a natural disaster
- encephalography — Any of various techniques for recording the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
- entomologically — In terms of entomology.
- epeirogenically — in the manner of epeirogeny
- ethnomusicology — The study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
- ethnopsychology — The scientific study of psychological concepts as they exist across different ethnic groups.
- ethylene glycol — a colorless, viscous liquid, HOCH2CH2OH, used as an antifreeze, as a solvent, in resins, etc.
- exchangeability — The condition of being exchangeable.
- factory farming — Factory farming is a system of farming which involves keeping animals indoors, often with very little space, and giving them special foods so that they grow more quickly or produce more eggs or milk.
- false pregnancy — physiological signs of pregnancy without conception; pseudocyesis.
- flight of fancy — An idea or statement that is very imaginative but complicated, silly, or impractical can be referred to as a flight of fancy.
- floating policy — (in marine insurance) a policy that provides protection of a broad nature for shipments of merchandise and that is valid continuously until canceled.
- flying characin — hatchetfish (def 2).
- flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
- food technology — a branch of technology that is involved in the production of food
- fungistatically — in a fungistatic manner
- fuzzy computing — fuzzy logic
- gastronomically — the art or science of good eating.
- gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.
- gene technology — manipulation of DNA
- genetic fallacy — the fallacy of confusing questions of validity and logical order with questions of origin and temporal order.
- geomagnetically — In a geomagnetic way; through geomagnetism.
- geotectonically — from a geotectonic point of view
- glen canyon dam — Adam Clayton, Jr. 1908–72, U.S. clergyman, politician, and civil-rights leader: congressman 1945–67, 1969–71.
- glycaemic index — an index indicating the effects of various foods on blood sugar. Fast-releasing foods that raise blood sugar levels quickly are high on the index, while slow-releasing foods, at the bottom of the index, give a slow but sustained release of sugar
- glycogenic acid — gluconic acid.
- glyconeogenesis — gluconeogenesis.