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16-letter words containing g, o, n, d

  • clootie dumpling — a boiled suet pudding containing dried fruits
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • de morgan's laws — (in formal logic and set theory) the principles that conjunction and disjunction, or union and intersection, are dual. Thus the negation of P & Q is equivalent to not-P or not-Q
  • de-anglicization — (in Ireland) the elimination of English influence, language, customs, etc
  • dearborn heights — city in SE Mich.: suburb of Detroit: pop. 58,000
  • debating society — a club, e.g. at a school or university, which regularly holds debates
  • debt forgiveness — the action or process of forgiving people their debts
  • deflationary gap — a situation in which total spending in an economy is insufficient to buy all the output that can be produced with full employment
  • deflecting force — the apparent deflection (Coriolis acceleration) of a body in motion with respect to the earth, as seen by an observer on the earth, attributed to a fictitious force (Coriolis force) but actually caused by the rotation of the earth and appearing as a deflection to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and a deflection to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • delegitimization — The act or process of delegitimizing.
  • dendrochronology — the study of the annual rings of trees, used esp to date past events
  • deoxyhaemoglobin — (biochemistry) The form of haemoglobin that has released its oxygen.
  • departure lounge — In an airport, the departure lounge is the place where passengers wait before they get onto their plane.
  • depending on sth — You use depending on when you are saying that something varies according to the circumstances mentioned.
  • depression glass — cheap glassware mass-produced during the Depression of the 1930s, usually molded in patterns in pale colors, and collectible since the early 1970s
  • descending colon — the last portion of the colon, beginning at the upper left abdomen in the region of the spleen and continuing downward along the left posterior wall to the sigmoid flexure.
  • destigmatization — The process or act of destigmatizing.
  • destroying angel — a white slender very poisonous basidiomycetous toadstool, Amanita virosa, having a pronounced volva, frilled, shaggy stalk, and sickly smell
  • developing world — Third World: poor countries
  • diagonal process — a form of argument in which a new member of a set is constructed from a list of its known members by making the nth term of the new member differ from the nth term of the nth member. The new member is thus different from every member of the list
  • diamond drilling — drilling using a drill with a diamond-impregnated bit
  • diazoamino group — the divalent group –N=NNH–.
  • dick whittington — Richard ("Dick") 1358?–1423, English merchant and philanthropist: Lord Mayor of London 1398, 1406–07, 1419–20.
  • digital envelope — (cryptography)  
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