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15-letter words containing g, r, o, u, c

  • counterpunching — Present participle of counterpunch.
  • counterrotating — (of two corresponding or similar moving parts) rotating in opposite directions: counterrotating propellers.
  • counterstrategy — a strategy designed to counter the effectiveness of another strategy or action
  • counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
  • counting number — natural number
  • country cottage — a small house in the country, esp one used for holidays
  • country dancing — Country dancing is traditional dancing in which people dance in rows or circles.
  • courting couple — a pair of lovers
  • courting mirror — a small mirror of c1800 having a border and cresting of glass painted with leaves and flowers in imitation of a Chinese style.
  • cranberry gourd — a South American vine, Abobra tenuifolia, of the gourd family, having deeply lobed, ovate leaves and bearing a berrylike scarlet fruit.
  • cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
  • croix de guerre — a French military decoration awarded for gallantry in battle: established 1915
  • crosslinguistic — relating to different languages
  • crunchy granola — crisp; brittle.
  • crunchy-granola — characterized by or defining oneself by ecological awareness, liberal political views, and support or use of natural products and health foods.
  • crustaceologist — One who studies crustaceology.
  • cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
  • customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
  • cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
  • degree of curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
  • direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
  • dishcloth gourd — loofah (def 1).
  • drawing account — an account used by a partner or employee for cash withdrawals.
  • drying-up cloth — a tea towel
  • dynamic routing — (networking)   (Or "adaptive routing") Routing that adjusts automatically to network topology or traffic changes.
  • electrosurgical — Relating to electrosurgery.
  • encounter group — a group of people who meet in order to develop self-awareness and mutual understanding by openly expressing their feelings, by confrontation, physical contact, etc
  • focusing screen — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
  • geodetic survey — a land area survey in which the curvature of the surface of the earth is taken into account.
  • gloucester city — a city in W New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
  • gloucestershire — a county in SW England. 1255 sq. mi. (2640 sq. km). County seat: Gloucester.
  • glucocorticoids — Plural form of glucocorticoid.
  • glucuronic acid — Biochemistry. an acid, C 6 H 10 O 7 , formed by the oxidation of glucose, found combined with other products of metabolism in the blood and urine.
  • glycuronic acid — glucuronic acid.
  • gnome computers — (company)   A small UK hardware and software company. They make transputer boards for the Acorn Archimedes among other things. E-mail: Chris Stenton <[email protected]>.
  • graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
  • graph colouring — (application)   A constraint-satisfaction problem often used as a test case in research, which also turns out to be equivalent to certain real-world problems (e.g. register allocation). Given a connected graph and a fixed number of colours, the problem is to assign a colour to each node, subject to the constraint that any two connected nodes cannot be assigned the same colour. This is an example of an NP-complete problem. See also four colour map theorem.
  • graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
  • group insurance — life, accident, or health insurance available to a group of persons, as the employees of a company, under a single contract, usually without regard to physical condition or age of the individuals.
  • groutlock brick — a brick chamfered on its inner angles to allow space for vertical and horizontal reinforcing rods sealed in grout.
  • gulf of corinth — an inlet of the Ionian Sea between the Peloponnese and central Greece
  • gunnery officer — an officer in charge of heavy guns
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • housing project — a publicly built and operated housing development, usually intended for low- or moderate-income tenants, senior citizens, etc.
  • hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
  • ignition source — An ignition source is a process or event which can cause a fire or explosion.
  • legal successor — a person or thing that legally follows, esp a person who succeeds another in an office
  • licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
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