14-letter words containing g, o, t, c, u
- counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
- counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
- counting house — a room or building used by the accountants of a business
- country singer — a singer of country and western music
- county borough — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and in Wales from 1996) a borough administered independently of any higher tier of local government
- courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
- courting chair — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
- cruft together — (jargon) To hack together though with the suggestion that the result may be cruft.
- cult following — the admiration that is felt by a particular group for a film, book, band, etc
- cuprotungstite — (mineral) A tetragonal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and tungsten.
- deconstructing — Present participle of deconstruct.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.
- drug addiction — dependence on a chemical substance
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- education page — a page in a newspaper devoted to news relating to education or teaching
- electrosurgery — Surgery using a high-frequency electric current to heat and so cut tissue with great precision.
- encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
- eulogistically — In the form or manner of a eulogy; with praise.
- faculty lounge — a staffroom
- floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
- focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
- galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
- gamma function — a function defined by Γ(x) = ∫0∞tx–1e–tdt, where x is real and greater than zero
- gastrovascular — serving for digestion and circulation, as a cavity.
- gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
- geiger counter — an instrument for detecting ionizing radiations, consisting of a gas-filled tube in which electric-current pulses are produced when the gas is ionized by radiation, and of a device to register these pulses: used chiefly to measure radioactivity.
- geolinguistics — the study of the geographical distribution of languages
- gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
- get the bounce — to dismiss or be dismissed from a job
- gibbs function — the thermodynamic function of a system that is equal to its enthalpy minus the product of its absolute temperture and entropy: a decrease in the function is equal to the maximum amount of work available exclusive of that due to pressure times volume change during a reversible, isothermal, isobaric process.
- global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
- glucocorticoid — any of a class of steroid hormones that are synthesized by the adrenal cortex of vertebrates and have anti-inflammatory activity.
- golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
- grand junction — a city in W Colorado.
- ground control — an airport facility that supervises the movement of aircraft and ground vehicles on ramps and taxiways.
- group practice — Also called group medicine. the practice of medicine by an association of physicians and other health professionals who work together, usually in one suite of offices.
- group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
- gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
- ichthyophagous — the practice of eating or subsisting on fish.
- immunogenetics — the branch of immunology dealing with the study of immunity in relation to genetic makeup.
- immunogenicity — causing or capable of producing an immune response.
- incontiguously — in an incontiguous or unconnected fashion; discretely
- judge advocate — a staff officer designated as legal adviser to a commander and charged with the administration of military justice.
- kangaroo court — a self-appointed or mob-operated tribunal that disregards or parodies existing principles of law or human rights, especially one in a frontier area or among criminals in prison.
- lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
- laughing stock — object of others' amusement
- laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
- legal document — a document concerning a legal matter; a document drawn up by a lawyer