16-letter words containing g, r, o, s
- christening robe — a long white dress worn by a baby at his or her christening
- chromatographies — Plural form of chromatography.
- chymotrypsinogen — the inactive precursor of chymotrypsin
- citronella grass — a tropical Asian grass, Cymbopogon (or Andropogon) nardus, with bluish-green lemon-scented leaves
- class background — a person's background with reference to social class
- closing argument — In a court case, a lawyer's closing argument is their final speech, in which they give a summary of their case.
- cogito, ergo sum — I think, therefore I am; the basis of Descartes' philosophy
- colorado springs — a city and resort in central Colorado. Pop: 370 448 (2003 est)
- configurationism — Gestalt psychology
- congo free state — a former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- congressionalist — of or relating to a congress.
- considering that — You use considering that to indicate that you are thinking about a particular fact when making a judgment or giving an opinion.
- consulting hours — the hours during which health practitioners are available for consultation
- copyright symbol — (character, legal) "©" The internationally recognised symbol required to introduce a copyright notice, a letter C with a circle around it. This can be encoded in ISO 8859-1 as character code decimal 169, hexadecimal A9, in HTML as ©, © or ©. A "c" in parentheses: "(c)" is sometimes used in documents stored in a coded character set such as ASCII that does not include the C in a circle, but this has no legal meaning.
- corona discharge — an electrical discharge appearing on and around the surface of a charged conductor, caused by ionization of the surrounding gas
- corporal's guard — a squad commanded by a corporal
- cosmetic surgery — Cosmetic surgery is surgery done to make a person look more attractive.
- costume designer — a person who designs costumes for plays and films
- cottage industry — A cottage industry is a small business that is run from someone's home, especially one that involves a craft such as knitting or pottery.
- counter-strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
- counterarguments — Plural form of counterargument.
- counterespionage — Counterespionage is the same as counterintelligence.
- counterinsurgent — of or relating to counterinsurgency
- countersignature — second signature
- crossopterygians — Plural form of crossopterygian.
- cryptozoologists — Plural form of cryptozoologist.
- crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
- crystallographic — of, relating to, or dealing with crystals or crystallography.
- curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
- data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
- de broglie waves — the set of waves that represent the behaviour of an elementary particle, or some atoms and molecules, under certain conditions. The de Broglie wavelength, λ, is given by λ = h/mv, where h is the Planck constant, m the mass, and v the velocity of the particle
- de morgan's laws — (in formal logic and set theory) the principles that conjunction and disjunction, or union and intersection, are dual. Thus the negation of P & Q is equivalent to not-P or not-Q
- dearborn heights — city in SE Mich.: suburb of Detroit: pop. 58,000
- debt forgiveness — the action or process of forgiving people their debts
- degrees of frost — When someone says that there are a particular number of degrees of frost they mean that the temperature is that number of degrees below freezing point.
- depression glass — cheap glassware mass-produced during the Depression of the 1930s, usually molded in patterns in pale colors, and collectible since the early 1970s
- destroying angel — a white slender very poisonous basidiomycetous toadstool, Amanita virosa, having a pronounced volva, frilled, shaggy stalk, and sickly smell
- diagonal process — a form of argument in which a new member of a set is constructed from a list of its known members by making the nth term of the new member differ from the nth term of the nth member. The new member is thus different from every member of the list
- dinosaurs mating — (humour) The activity said to occur when yet another big iron merger or buy-out occurs; reflects a perception by hackers that these signal another stage in the long, slow dying of the mainframe industry. Also described as "elephants mating": lots of noise and action at a high level, with an eventual outcome in the somewhat distant future. In its glory days of the 1960s, it was "IBM and the Seven Dwarves": Burroughs, Control Data, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR, RCA, and Univac. Early on, RCA sold out to Univac and GE also sold out, and it was "IBM and the BUNCH" (an acronym for Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell) for a while. Honeywell was bought out by Bull. Univac in turn merged with Sperry to form Sperry/Univac, which was later merged (although the employees of Sperry called it a hostile takeover) with Burroughs to form Unisys in 1986 (this was when the phrase "dinosaurs mating" was coined). In 1991 AT&T absorbed NCR, only to spit it out again in 1996. Unisys bought Convergent Technologies in 1988 and later others. More such earth-shaking unions of doomed giants seem inevitable.
- discographically — In terms of discography.
- discussion group — group assembled to discuss sth
- disproportioning — Present participle of disproportion.
- division algebra — a linear algebra in which each element of the vector space has a multiplicative inverse.
- doctor's surgery — A doctor's surgery is the same as a doctor's office.
- double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
- dressing station — a post or center that gives first aid to the wounded, located near a combat area.
- drugstore cowboy — a young man who loafs around drugstores or on street corners.
- ebenezer scrooge — Ebenezer [eb-uh-nee-zer] /ˌɛb əˈni zər/ (Show IPA) a miserly curmudgeon in Dickens' Christmas Carol.
- echocardiographs — Plural form of echocardiograph.
- edsel ford range — a mountain range in Antarctica, E of the Ross Sea.