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11-letter words containing g, i, o, c, n

  • rowing club — rowboat association
  • royal icing — a hard white icing made from egg whites and icing sugar, used for coating and decorating cakes, esp fruit cakes
  • sanctioning — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
  • scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
  • schizogenic — reproducing or formed by fission.
  • schizogonic — relating to schizogony
  • schoolgoing — the act of going to school
  • schrödinbug — (jargon, programming)   /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
  • schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
  • scientology — the philosophy of the Church of Scientology, a nondenominational movement founded in the US in the 1950s, which emphasizes self-knowledge as a means of realizing full spiritual potential
  • scorchingly — in a scorching manner
  • shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
  • slot racing — the activity of racing slot cars.
  • slow-acting — working or acting slowly, not immediately
  • smoking car — smoker (def 2a).
  • socializing — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
  • sock lining — a thin piece of material, as leather, that is laid on top of the insole of a shoe, boot, or other footwear.
  • somatogenic — developing from somatic cells.
  • speedcoding — (language)   A pseudocode interpreter for mathematics on IBM 701 and IBM 650 written by John Backus in 1953.
  • spring lock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
  • stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
  • stockpiling — the activity of acquiring and storing a large quantity of something
  • stocktaking — the examination or counting over of materials or goods on hand, as in a stockroom or store.
  • technologic — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • telescoping — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
  • tense logic — the study of the logical properties of tense operators, and of the logical relations between sentences having tense, by means of consideration of appropriate formal systems
  • teratogenic — a drug or other substance capable of interfering with the development of a fetus, causing birth defects.
  • theogonical — of or relating to theogony
  • thermogenic — causing or pertaining to the production of heat.
  • ticking off — If you give someone a ticking off, you speak angrily to them because they have done something wrong.
  • ticonderoga — a village in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: site of French fort captured by the English 1759 and by Americans under Ethan Allen 1775.
  • toe-curling — If you describe something as toe-curling, you mean that it makes you feel very embarrassed.
  • top slicing — mining of thick orebodies in a series of stopes from top to bottom, the roof being caved with its timbers as each stope is exhausted.
  • touring car — an open automobile designed for five or more passengers.
  • townscaping — the act of designing a town
  • toxicogenic — generating or producing toxic products or poisons.
  • tumorigenic — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
  • ulcerogenic — producing or inducing the formation of an ulcer.
  • unalachtigo — a member of a North American Indian people, one of the Delaware group.
  • uncognizant — having cognizance; aware (usually followed by of): He was cognizant of the difficulty.
  • uncomplying — to act or be in accordance with wishes, requests, demands, requirements, conditions, etc.; agree (sometimes followed by with): They asked him to leave and he complied. She has complied with the requirements.
  • uncongenial — agreeable, suitable, or pleasing in nature or character: congenial surroundings.
  • unconniving — not conniving
  • unreckoning — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • unrejoicing — not joyful; sad
  • unsagacious — having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd: a sagacious lawyer.
  • unwelcoming — not friendly, hostile
  • vacationing — a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
  • vaccinology — the science of vaccine development.
  • vaginectomy — excision of part or all of the vagina.
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