14-letter words containing g, o, p
- breaking point — If something or someone has reached breaking point, they have so many problems or difficulties that they can no longer cope with them, and may soon collapse or be unable to continue.
- bubonic plague — Bubonic plague is a serious infectious disease spread by rats. It killed many people during the Middle Ages.
- bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
- bursting point — the point at which normal capacity is exceeded.
- butylene group — any of four bivalent isomeric groups having the formula –C 4 H 8 –.
- cabbage looper — the larva of a noctuid moth, Trichoplusia ni, common throughout the U.S. and Canada, that feeds on a wide variety of vegetable crops, especially cabbage and lettuce.
- cadogan teapot — a lidless teapot that is made from or in imitation of an inverted Chinese wine pot and is filled through the bottom.
- caprimulgiform — Of or pertaining to the taxonomic order Caprimulgiformes.
- carbonyl group — the bivalent radical CO, occurring in acids, ketones, aldehydes, and their derivatives.
- carboxyl group — functional group in organic acids
- carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
- carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
- carrier pigeon — any homing pigeon, esp one used for carrying messages
- cartographical — Pertaining to cartography.
- cathodographer — a person trained in taking cathodographs
- champagne cork — a cork used in a champagne bottle
- change of pace — variation in tempo or mood, in the presentation of acts in a variety show, etc.
- chopping block — a thick wooden board used for chopping vegetables, meat etc on
- chopping board — A chopping board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
- chopping knife — a knife for chopping meat, vegetables etc
- choreographers — Plural form of choreographer.
- choreographies — Plural form of choreography.
- choreographing — Present participle of choreograph.
- chromatography — the technique of separating and analysing the components of a mixture of liquids or gases by selective adsorption in, for example, a column of powder (column chromatography) or on a strip of paper (paper chromatography)
- cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
- cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
- cinemicrograph — a motion picture filmed through a microscope.
- clouded magpie — a geometrid moth, Abraxas sylvata, that is paler than the magpie moth
- cobbler's pegs — a common Australian weed, Bidens pilosa, with spiky peglike awns
- coelanaglyphic — (of pottery) decorated with sunken relief
- complete graph — A graph which has a link between every pair of nodes. A complete bipartite graph can be partitioned into two subsets of nodes such that each node is joined to every node in the other subset.
- composing room — the room in a printing establishment in which type is set
- compound sugar — any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.
- compromisingly — In a compromising manner.
- congresspeople — congressmen or congresswomen
- congressperson — A Congressperson is a member of the US Congress, especially of the House of Representatives.
- consumer group — an organization that campaigns for the rights of consumers
- contemporising — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
- copolymerizing — Present participle of copolymerize.
- coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
- cornucopia leg — a leg used on pieces in the Directoire and Empire styles, curving downward from the piece and curving upward again to a point and having a foot or caster at the lowest part of the curve.
- cosmographical — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
- cotton-picking — Cotton-picking is used by some people to emphasize what they are saying.
- counterpoising — Present participle of counterpoise.
- counterprogram — to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete with one on another station.
- covering power — the maximum area of a scene that can be recorded with good definition by a particular lens.
- cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
- croagh patrick — a mountain in NW Republic of Ireland, in Mayo: a place of pilgrimage as Saint Patrick is said to have prayed and fasted there. Height: 765 m (2510 ft)
- crossing point — a place where people cross a road, border, or river
- cryopreserving — Present participle of cryopreserve.