13-letter words containing g, o, n, p
- compsognathus — any bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Compsognathus, of late Jurassic age, having a slender body that reached a length of 30 inches (76 cm).
- computerising — Present participle of computerise.
- computerizing — Present participle of computerize.
- concord grape — a variety of grape with purple-black fruit covered with a bluish bloom
- contemplating — to think studiously; meditate; consider deliberately.
- contents page — the page in a book that shows the table of contents
- contracepting — to prevent the conception of (offspring).
- control group — any group used as a control in a statistical experiment, esp a group of patients who receive either a placebo or a standard drug during an investigation of the effects of another drug on other patients
- copy negative — master (def 21).
- coral springs — city in SE Fla.: pop. 118,000
- coronagraphic — Of, pertaining to, or employing a coronagraph.
- corresponding — parallel; equivalent
- cottage piano — a small upright piano
- couch-hopping — to stay overnight in someone’s else’s home while traveling: He couch-surfed at the houses of strangers and friends.
- counterspying — the activities of a counterspy
- coup de poing — (no longer in technical use) a Lower Paleolithic stone hand ax, pointed or ovate in shape and having sharp cutting edges.
- court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
- crop spraying — the spraying of crops with insecticide, fungicide, etc
- cross-posting — the sending of an email to many forums, mailing lists, etc
- cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
- cytopharynges — Plural form of cytopharynx.
- decompounding — Present participle of decompound.
- decompressing — Present participle of decompress.
- deep mourning — completely black mourning clothes made of a drab material: After her brother died, she was in deep mourning for a year.
- dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
- deng xiaoping — 1904–97, Chinese Communist statesman; deputy prime minister (1973–76; 1977–80) and the dominant figure in the Chinese government from 1977 until his death. He was twice removed from office (1967–73, 1976–77) and rehabilitated. He introduced economic liberalization, but suppressed demands for political reform, most notably in 1989 when over 2500 demonstrators were killed by the military in Tiananmen Square in Beijing
- dephlegmation — the act of dephlegmating
- depressogenic — Causing or tending to cause depression.
- diphthongally — in a diphthongal manner
- diphthongized — Simple past tense and past participle of diphthongize.
- disappointing — failing to fulfill one's hopes or expectations: a disappointing movie; a disappointing marriage.
- disempowering — Present participle of disempower.
- disgospelling — depriving of access to the gospel
- dispossessing — Present participle of dispossess.
- dna computing — (architecture) The use of DNA molecules to encode computational problems. Standard operations of molecular biology can then be used to solve some NP-hard search problems in parallel using a very large number of molecules. The exponential scaling of NP-hard problems still remains, so this method will require a huge amount of DNA to solve large problems.
- doppelgangers — Plural form of doppelganger.
- drag and drop — A common method for manipulating files (and sometimes text) under a graphical user interface or WIMP environment. The user moves the pointer over an icon representing a file and presses a mouse button. He holds the button down while moving the pointer (dragging the file) to another place, usually a directory viewer or an icon for some application program, and then releases the button (dropping the file). The meaning of this action can often be modified by holding certain keys on the keyboard at the same time. Some systems also use this technique for objects other than files, e.g. portions of text in a word processor. The biggest problem with drag and drop is does it mean "copy" or "move"? The answer to this question is not intuitively evident, and there is no consensus for which is the right answer. The same vendor even makes it move in some cases and copy in others. Not being sure whether an operation is copy or move will cause you to check very often, perhaps every time if you need to be certain. Mistakes can be costly. People make mistakes all the time with drag and drop. Human computer interaction studies show a higher failure rate for such operations, but also a higher "forgiveness rate" (users think "silly me") than failures with commands (users think "stupid machine"). Overall, drag and drop took some 40 times longer to do than single-key commands.
- drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
- drownproofing — a survival technique, for swimmers or nonswimmers, in which the body is allowed to float vertically in the water, with the head submerged, the lungs filled with air, and the arms and legs relaxed, the head being raised to breathe every ten seconds or so.
- earning power — business: ability to profit
- eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- electrotyping — The act or process of making electrotypes.
- encephalogram — An image, trace, or other record of the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
- entomophagous — feeding mainly on insects; insectivorous
- epileptogenic — causing an epileptic attack
- epping forest — a forest in E England, northeast of London: formerly a royal hunting ground
- ethnographers — Plural form of ethnographer.
- ethnographica — a collection of ethnographic items
- ethnographies — Plural form of ethnography.
- eusporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a group of cells, rather than a single cell, and with no specialized dispersal of spores