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12-letter words containing e, c, h, o, g

  • coding sheet — a form on which a program is written
  • coin changer — a machine that gives change rapidly, as to a customer, typically operated by a manual keyboard and often used in association with a cash register.
  • come through — To come through a dangerous or difficult situation means to survive it and recover from it.
  • cometography — the scientific description and recording of comets
  • copyrighters — Plural form of copyrighter.
  • cosmographer — (astrophysics) A scientist specializing in understanding and describing the nature of the universe.
  • counterlight — a light opposite something, such as a painting, that negatively affects the appearance of that object
  • counterweigh — counterbalance
  • cover charge — A cover charge is a sum of money that you must pay in some restaurants and nightclubs in addition to the money that you pay there for your food and drink.
  • cringeworthy — Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
  • demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
  • dermographic — dermatographia.
  • discographer — a person who compiles discographies.
  • dog's chance — little likelihood; small chance (usually used in the negative): That project didn't have a dog's chance of succeeding.
  • east chicago — a port in NW Indiana, on Lake Michigan, near Chicago.
  • echogenicity — (medical) The ability to create an echo that can be detected in an ultrasound examination.
  • ectypography — a form of etching or engraving in which the design is produced in relief
  • electrograph — A machine used in gravure printing.
  • epoch-making — An epoch-making change or declaration is considered to be extremely important because it is likely to have a significant effect on a particular period of time.
  • ethnographic — Relating to ethnography.
  • ethnological — Of or pertaining to ethnology.
  • focal length — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
  • for a change — contrary to the norm
  • french congo — former name of the People's Republic of the Congo.
  • galactophore — a galactophorous duct.
  • galactorrhea — an abnormally abundant flow of milk in a lactating woman.
  • gametophytic — (botany) Of or pertaining to a gametophyte plant.
  • genethliacon — A birthday ode.
  • geochemistry — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
  • geographical — of or relating to geography.
  • geomechanics — the study and application of rock and soil mechanics
  • geophysicist — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
  • geotechnical — of or relating to practical applications of geological science in civil engineering, mining, etc.
  • get in touch — make contact
  • gift voucher — gift certificate.
  • global reach — When people talk about the global reach of a company or industry, they mean its ability to have customers in many different parts of the world.
  • golden perch — a freshwater food fish, Plectroplites ambiguus, that inhabits inland waters of Australia.
  • gospel choir — a choir performing gospel music
  • grace hopper — (person)   US Navy Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Hopper (1906-12-09 to 1992-01-01), née Grace Brewster Murray. Hopper is believed to have concieved the concept of the compiler with the A-0 in 1952. She also developed the first commercial high-level language, which eventually evolved into COBOL. She worked on the Mark I computer with Howard Aiken and with BINAC in 1949. She is credited with having coined the term "debug", and the adage "it is always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" (with various wordings), which has been the guiding principle in sysadmin decisions ever since. See also the entries debug and bug. Hopper is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. In 1994, the US Navy named a new ship, the guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper, after her.
  • grade school — an elementary school that has its pupils grouped or classified into grades.
  • grass hockey — field hockey.
  • growth curve — a curve on a graph in which a variable is plotted against time to illustrate the growth of the variable
  • haemorrhagic — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of hemorrhagic.
  • hagiocracies — Plural form of hagiocracy.
  • hallucinogen — a substance that produces hallucinations.
  • hamming code — (algorithm)   Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
  • hedge-school — a school held out of doors in favourable weather, indoors in winter
  • hegemonistic — the policy or practice of hegemony to serve national interests.
  • helicographs — Plural form of helicograph.
  • heliographic — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
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