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15-letter words containing g, o, n, e

  • come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
  • come up smiling — to recover cheerfully from misfortune
  • coming bet ween — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
  • commercialising — Present participle of commercialise.
  • commercializing — Present participle of commercialize.
  • commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
  • compleat angler — a book on fishing (1653) by Izaak Walton.
  • compound engine — a steam engine in which the steam is expanded in more than one stage, first in a high-pressure cylinder and then in one or more low-pressure cylinders
  • compound magnet — a magnet consisting of two or more separate magnets placed together with like poles pointing in the same direction.
  • comprehendingly — In an comprehending manner; knowingly.
  • computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
  • conceptualising — Present participle of conceptualise.
  • conceptualizing — Present participle of conceptualize.
  • concerto grosso — a composition for an orchestra and a group of soloists, chiefly of the baroque period
  • concrete jungle — If you refer to a city or area as a concrete jungle, you mean that it has a lot of modern buildings and you think it is ugly or unpleasant to live in.
  • condescendingly — In a condescending manner.
  • conestoga wagon — a large heavy horse-drawn covered wagon used in the 19th century
  • confidence game — A confidence game is the same as a confidence trick.
  • congealableness — the quality of being congealable
  • congealed salad — a molded gelatin salad containing chopped fruit or vegetables.
  • congelifraction — the shattering or splitting of rock or frozen soil due to the action of frost.
  • conglomerations — Plural form of conglomeration.
  • congress-people — congressmember.
  • congressionally — of or relating to a congress.
  • connected graph — (mathematics)   A graph such that there is a path between any pair of nodes (via zero or more other nodes). Thus if we start from any node and visit all nodes connected to it by a single edge, then all nodes connected to any of them, and so on, then we will eventually have visited every node in the connected graph.
  • constable glass — a drinking glass of the 18th century, having a heavy foot, a tall body, and a capacity of 1 quart (0.946 liters).
  • contextualising — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
  • contextualizing — Present participle of contextualize.
  • contingency fee — a lawyer's fee that only becomes payable if the case is successful
  • contingency tax — any new tax that would be necessary in case of a shortfall in revenues.
  • contract bridge — the most common variety of bridge, in which the declarer receives points counting towards game and rubber only for tricks he bids as well as makes, any overtricks receiving bonus points
  • controlled drug — a drug whose sale is illegal except through prescribed medical channels
  • controller gain — In a control loop, the controller gain is the strength of action a controller will take at a particular point below or above the setpoint.
  • converging lens — a lens that converts parallel rays of light to convergent rays and produces a real image.
  • cooling process — the process of becoming cooler
  • copenhagen blue — a greyish-blue colour
  • copying machine — a machine that makes copies of original documents, especially by xerography.
  • correcting lens — a thin lens used to correct spherical aberration introduced by the spherical mirror in certain optical systems
  • correspondingly — You use correspondingly when describing a situation which is closely connected with one you have just mentioned or is similar to it.
  • corrugated iron — a thin structural sheet made of iron or steel, formed with alternating ridges and troughs
  • cosignificative — having the same meaning or sense
  • cottage country — any lakeside region where many country cottages are located
  • cottage pudding — plain cake covered with a sweet sauce
  • counter-sinking — to enlarge the upper part of (a cavity), especially by chamfering, to receive the cone-shaped head of a screw, bolt, etc.
  • counteractingly — In a way that counteracts.
  • counterargument — A counterargument is an argument that makes an opposing point to another argument.
  • countercampaign — a campaign responding to another campaign
  • countercharging — Present participle of countercharge.
  • countercharming — Present participle of countercharm.
  • counterchecking — Present participle of countercheck.
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