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20-letter words containing g, o, n

  • conscious uncoupling — the ending of a romantic relationship or marriage in a respectful, positive, and constructive way.
  • contempt of congress — contempt of a U.S. Congressional body, as of an investigating committee, shown by a witness summoned or appearing before it.
  • context-free grammar — (grammar)   (CFG) A grammar where the syntax of each constituent (syntactic category or terminal symbol) is independent of the symbols occuring before and after it in a sentence. A context-free grammar describes a context-free language. Context-free grammars can be expressed by a set of "production rules" or syntactic rules. For example, a language with symbols "a" and "b" that must occur in unequal numbers can be represented by the CFG: S → U | V U → TaU | TaT | UaT V → TbV | TbT | VbT T → aTbT | bTaT | ε meaning the top-level category "S" consists of either a "U" or a "V" and so on. The special category "ε" represents the empty string. This grammar is context-free because each rule has a single symbol on its left-hand side.
  • continental congress — the assembly of delegates from the North American rebel colonies held during and after the War of American Independence. It issued the Declaration of Independence (1776) and framed the Articles of Confederation (1777)
  • contingency planning — planning for future events that seem less likely than others
  • contingent liability — a possible liability that is dependent on the outcome of a future event
  • continuing education — Continuing education is education for adults in a variety of subjects, most of which are practical, not academic.
  • continuing-education — adult education.
  • contradistinguishing — Present participle of contradistinguish.
  • controlling interest — a quantity of shares in a business that is sufficient to ensure control over its direction
  • convective discharge — the repulsion of ions of a gas by a highly charged body, creating a discernible wind.
  • convergent evolution — the evolutionary development of a superficial resemblance between unrelated animals that occupy a similar environment, as in the evolution of wings in birds and bats
  • cook someone's goose — If you cook someone's goose, you prevent their plans from succeeding.
  • core gender identity — a person's inner sense of being male or female, usually developed during early childhood as a result of parental rearing practices and societal influences and strengthened during puberty by hormonal changes.
  • corporate governance — the balance of control between the stakeholders, managers, and directors of an organization
  • corresponding angles — a pair of nonadjacent angles, one interior and one exterior, on the same side of a transversal: these paired angles are equal if the lines cut by the transversal are parallel
  • cost-of-living index — a numerical scale by means of which cost-of-living levels can be compared with a base number
  • council-manager plan — (in the US) a system of local government with an elected legislative council and an appointed administrative manager
  • counter-intelligence — Counter-intelligence consists of actions that a country takes in order to find out whether another country is spying on it and to prevent it from doing so.
  • coupling coefficient — The coupling coefficient of a pair of coils is a measure of the magnetic effect passing between them.
  • creative imagination — the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses.
  • criminal proceedings — action taken in a court to bring a criminal prosecution against someone
  • cross-country skiing — the activity of skiing across open country for pleasure
  • cut the gordian knot — to find a quick, bold solution for a perplexing problem
  • cutting-out scissors — a type of scissors used to cut out pieces of fabric for sewing
  • de facto segregation — racial, ethnic, or other segregation resulting from societal differences between groups, as socioeconomic or political disparity, without institutionalized legislation intended to segregate.
  • declaratory judgment — a judgment that merely decides the rights of parties in a given transaction, situation, or dispute but does not order any action or award damages.
  • decompartmentalizing — Present participle of decompartmentalize.
  • deinstitutionalizing — Present participle of deinstitutionalize.
  • deontological ethics — the branch of ethics dealing with right action and the nature of duty, without regard to the goodness or value of motives or the desirability of the ends of any act.
  • department of energy — the department of the U.S. federal government that sets forth and maintains the national energy policy, including energy conservation, environmental protection, etc. Abbreviation: DOE.
  • developing-out paper — a sensitized printing paper requiring development in order to bring out the image. Abbreviation: D.O.P.
  • development planning — the planning of the development of an area of land
  • diamond in the rough — a diamond in its natural state
  • dictionary catalogue — a catalogue of the authors, titles, and subjects of books in one alphabetical sequence
  • differential housing — the casing that houses the differential of a motor vehicle
  • dinitrogen tetroxide — a colourless gaseous substance that exists in equilibrium with nitrogen dioxide. As the temperature is reduced the proportion of the tetroxide increases. Formula: N2O4
  • diogenes (of sinope) — 412?-323? b.c.; Gr. philosopher: noted for founding the Cynical school of philosophy
  • directional drilling — a method of drilling for oil in which the well is not drilled vertically, as when a number of wells are to be drilled from a single platform to reach different areas of an oil field
  • directory user agent — (DUA) The software that accesses the X.500 Directory Service on behalf of the directory user. The directory user may be a person or another software element.
  • dispersion hardening — the strengthening of an alloy as a result of the presence of fine particles in the lattice
  • displacement tonnage — the number of long tons of water displaced by a vessel, light or load displacement being specified.
  • do one's nut/go nuts — If someone goes nuts, or in British English does their nut, they become extremely angry.
  • do someone's bidding — command; summons; invitation: I went there at his bidding.
  • domestic heating oil — a liquid petroleum product used to fuel residential building furnaces or boilers
  • drum and bugle corps — a marching band of drum players and buglers.
  • early modern english — the English language represented in printed documents of the period starting with Caxton (1476) and ending with Dryden (1700).
  • early sunday morning — a painting (1930) by Edward Hopper.
  • ecological footprint — a mark left by the shod or unshod foot, as in earth or sand.
  • eight queens problem — eight queens puzzle
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