14-letter words containing g, o, s
- cross-hatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
- cross-indexing — to provide with cross references or with a cross-referenced index.
- crossing guard — school (crossing) guard
- crossing point — a place where people cross a road, border, or river
- cryopreserving — Present participle of cryopreserve.
- cryptographers — Plural form of cryptographer.
- cryptographist — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
- crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
- cuprotungstite — (mineral) A tetragonal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and tungsten.
- cuyahoga falls — a city in NE Ohio, near Akron.
- cycling shorts — tight-fitting shorts reaching partway to the knee for cycling, sport, etc
- cyclooxygenase — (enzyme) Any of several enzymes that catalyze the conversion of arachidonic acid into prostaglandins; their inhibition is the mode of action of aspirin and ibuprofen.
- cytogeneticist — One who studies cytogenetics.
- daddy longlegs — A daddy longlegs is a flying insect with very long legs.
- daddy-longlegs — Also called harvestman. any of numerous spiderlike arachnids of the order Opiliones, having a compact rounded body and extremely long, slender legs.
- daguerreotypes — Plural form of daguerreotype.
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
- de los angeles — Victoria (bikˈtorja). 1923–2005, Spanish soprano
- de-designation — an act of designating.
- dead to rights — in an undeniably incriminating situation; red-handed
- decisionmaking — Alternative form of decision making.
- decompensating — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.
- deconstructing — Present participle of deconstruct.
- dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
- demythologised — Simple past tense and past participle of demythologise.
- dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
- deoxyguanosine — (biochemistry) A deoxyribonucleoside related to guanosine.
- depoliticising — Present participle of depoliticise.
- deregistration — The process of which an employee is removed from work registrant status.
- dermatologists — Plural form of dermatologist.
- deuteragonists — Plural form of deuteragonist.
- devil's-tongue — a foul-smelling, fleshy plant, Amorphophallus rivieri, of the Old World tropics, having flowers on a spike surrounded by a dark-red spathe.
- diagnosability — the quality of being diagnosable
- diagnostically — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- diagonalisable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalised
- dialectologist — a specialist in dialectology.
- digitalisation — Alternative spelling of digitalization.
- disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
- disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
- disaggregation — to separate (an aggregate or mass) into its component parts.
- disambiguation — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- disapprovingly — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- disassociating — to dissociate.
- discographical — Of or pertaining to discography.
- discomfitingly — In a manner that discomfits.
- discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.