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15-letter words containing c, y, g, n

  • glycuronic acid — glucuronic acid.
  • gramophonically — in a gramophonic manner
  • greenback party — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
  • gross indecency — sexual offence
  • guidance system — The guidance system of a missile or rocket is the device which controls its course.
  • gunnery officer — an officer in charge of heavy guns
  • gynandromorphic — (of an organism) Having male and female characteristics.
  • hacking x for y — [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made publicly available about each user. This information (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields. On display, two of these fields were always combined into a project description of the form "Hacking X for Y" (e.g. ""Hacking perceptrons for Minsky""). This form of description became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more general facilities for self-advertisement (such as Unix plan files).
  • haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • high technology — any technology requiring the most sophisticated scientific equipment and advanced engineering techniques, as microelectronics, data processing, genetic engineering, or telecommunications (opposed to low technology).
  • high-dependency — needing or providing a more than usually high level of healthcare
  • holding company — a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations (distinguished from parent company).
  • hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • hyper-energetic — possessing or exhibiting energy, especially in abundance; vigorous: an energetic leader.
  • immunologically — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
  • incorrigibility — not corrigible; bad beyond correction or reform: incorrigible behavior; an incorrigible liar.
  • indy car racing — a US form of professional motor racing around banked oval tracks
  • insignificantly — Of such extremely small quantity or degree that it is not worth measuring.
  • interchangeably — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • keying sequence — a sequence made up of letters or numbers that can encode or decode a polyalphabetic substitution cipher one letter at a time.
  • large cranberry — See under cranberry (def 1).
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • laryngotracheal — of, relating to, or involving the larynx and trachea.
  • logging company — a company that fells trees and sells timber
  • lump uncurrying — Chin's generalisation of uncurrying. A curried function taking several tuples as arguments can be transformed to take a single tuple containing all the components of the original tuples.
  • magnetic pulley — a magnetic device for separating metal from sand, refuse, etc.
  • malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
  • managed economy — an economy in which the government allocates prices of goods and resources
  • metacognitively — In a metacognitive way.
  • microangiopathy — any disease of the small blood vessels.
  • microtechnology — technology that uses microelectronics
  • mineralogically — With regard to mineralogy.
  • neuropsychology — The study of the relationship between behavior, emotion, and cognition on the one hand, and brain function on the other.
  • neurotoxicology — the science that deals with the effects of poisons on the nervous system.
  • new archaeology — a reorientation of archaeology, dating from the 1960s, that emphasizes an explicitly scientific, problem-oriented, deductive approach to research.
  • nonbelligerency — the state or status of not participating in a war.
  • nonbiologically — in a nonbiological way, not in a biological way
  • ocean greyhound — a fast ship, esp a liner
  • oligodendrocyte — A glial cell similar to an astrocyte but with fewer protuberances, concerned with the production of myelin in the central nervous system.
  • operating cycle — the period of time between starting a business and making a profit
  • oxygen cylinder — a metal cylinder containing oxygen under pressure
  • pachymeningitis — inflammation of the dura mater of the brain and spinal cord
  • packing density — a measure of the amount of data that can be held by unit length of a storage medium, such as magnetic tape
  • palynologically — from a palynological point of view
  • phonogramically — in a phonogramic manner
  • phrenologically — in a manner relating to phrenology
  • physical change — a usually reversible change in the physical properties of a substance, as size or shape: Freezing a liquid is a physical change.
  • phytopathogenic — of, possessing the properties of, or relating to a phytopathogen
  • piggyback plant — a plant, Tolmiea menziesii, of the saxifrage family, native to western North America, that produces new plants at the base of its broad, hairy leaves and that is popular as a houseplant.
  • pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
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