16-letter words containing g, o, d
- carbon 14 dating — radiocarbon dating.
- carbon-14 dating — radiocarbon dating.
- carnal knowledge — Chiefly Law. sexual intercourse.
- casting director — the person in charge of choosing of actors for a production
- chanson de geste — one of a genre of Old French epic poems celebrating heroic deeds, the most famous of which is the Chanson de Roland
- chase the dragon — to smoke opium or heroin
- checking deposit — a deposit on which cheques may be drawn
- chichagof island — an island of Alaska, in the Alexander Archipelago. Area: 5439 sq km (2100 sq miles)
- child psychology — the study of the mental states and processes of children.
- chlorogenic acid — a colorless crystalline acid, C 16 H 18 O 9 , that is important in plant metabolism and is purportedly responsible for the browning or blackening of cut apples, potatoes, and other fruits and vegetables.
- cigarette holder — A cigarette holder is a narrow tube that you can put a cigarette into in order to hold it while you smoke it.
- cladogenetically — By means of cladogenesis.
- class background — a person's background with reference to social class
- cleaning product — a detergent or other household cleaner
- cloak-and-dagger — A cloak-and-dagger activity is one which involves mystery and secrecy.
- clootie dumpling — a boiled suet pudding containing dried fruits
- coleridge-taylor — Samuel. 1875–1912, British composer, best known for his trilogy of oratorios Song of Hiawatha (1898–1900)
- collagen disease — any of a group of diseases, as systemic lupus erythematosus, polyarteritis, scleroderma, and rheumatoid arthritis, involving inflammation or degeneration of connective tissue and accompanied by deposition of fibrinous material.
- college graduate — a student who has recently graduated from college
- colorado springs — a city and resort in central Colorado. Pop: 370 448 (2003 est)
- combination drug — a medication comprised of set dosages of two or more separate drugs.
- come and get it! — the meal is ready!
- command guidance — a method of controlling a missile during flight by transmitting information to it
- command language — the language used to access a computer system
- common knowledge — something widely or generally known
- common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
- common-or-garden — You can use common-or-garden to describe something you think is ordinary and not special in any way.
- competitive edge — business: superiority
- consent judgment — a judgment settled and agreed to by the parties to the action. Compare consent decree (def 2).
- consenting adult — a male person over the age of sixteen, who may legally engage in homosexual behaviour in private
- considering that — You use considering that to indicate that you are thinking about a particular fact when making a judgment or giving an opinion.
- constant folding — (compiler) A compiler optimisation technique where constant subexpressions are evaluated at compile time. This is usually only applied to built-in numerical and boolean operators whereas partial evaluation is more general in that expressions involving user-defined functions may also be evaluated at compile time.
- container garden — a collection of pots or other receptacles containing soil for growing plants out of doors
- contingency fund — a sum of money allocated for use in an emergency or to cover unforeseen expenses
- contraindicating — Present participle of contraindicate.
- corona discharge — an electrical discharge appearing on and around the surface of a charged conductor, caused by ionization of the surrounding gas
- corporal's guard — a squad commanded by a corporal
- corrugated paper — a packaging material made from layers of heavy paper, the top layer of which is grooved and ridged
- costume designer — a person who designs costumes for plays and films
- cottage industry — A cottage industry is a small business that is run from someone's home, especially one that involves a craft such as knitting or pottery.
- curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
- cutting compound — a mixture, such as oil, water, and soap, used for cooling drills and other cutting tools
- cyanogen bromide — a colorless, slightly water-soluble, poisonous, volatile, crystalline solid, BrCN, used chiefly as a fumigant and a pesticide.
- dabrowa gornicza — an industrial city in S Poland.
- dagwood sandwich — a thick sandwich filled with a variety of meats, cheeses, dressings, and condiments.
- dangling pointer — (programming) A reference that doesn't actually lead anywhere. In C and some other languages, a pointer that doesn't actually point at anything valid. Usually this happens because it formerly pointed to something that has moved or disappeared, e.g. a heap-allocated block which has been freed and reused. Used as jargon in a generalisation of its technical meaning; for example, a local phone number for a person who has since moved is a dangling pointer.
- data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
- day of reckoning — If someone talks about the day of reckoning, they mean a day or time in the future when people will be forced to deal with an unpleasant situation which they have avoided until now.
- daylight robbery — If someone charges you a great deal of money for something and you think this is unfair or unreasonable, you can refer to this as daylight robbery.
- de broglie waves — the set of waves that represent the behaviour of an elementary particle, or some atoms and molecules, under certain conditions. The de Broglie wavelength, λ, is given by λ = h/mv, where h is the Planck constant, m the mass, and v the velocity of the particle