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13-letter words containing g, u, e

  • chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
  • chickenburger — A hot sandwich made of a patty of chicken in a bun, often with other ingredients.
  • chilean guava — a tropical shrub or small tree, Ugni molinae, of the myrtle family, having leathery, oval leaves, rose-pink flowers, and blue-black, edible fruit.
  • circuit judge — a judge presiding over a county court or crown court
  • circumagitate — (transitive) To agitate on all sides.
  • circumambages — round-about methods
  • circumflexing — Present participle of circumflex.
  • circumventing — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
  • cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
  • club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
  • coco language — (language)   (Cocol) A language for writing left-attributed LL1 grammars, used as the input language for the Coco LL1 parser generator, which produces Modula-2 table-driven parsers as output. Cocol-2 is a version for the Coco-2 generator. Cocol/R is an improvement over the original Cocol and Cocol-2.
  • colleagueship — workplace companionship
  • college-bound — intending to go to college
  • computer game — A computer game is a game that you play on a computer or on a small portable piece of electronic equipment.
  • computer geek — (jargon)   (Or "turbo nerd", "turbo geek") One who eats (computer) bugs for a living. One who fulfils all the dreariest negative stereotypes about hackers: an asocial, malodourous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. The term cannot be used by outsiders without implied insult to all hackers; compare black-on-black usage of "nigger". A computer geek may be either a fundamentally clueless individual or a proto-hacker in larval stage. See also Alpha Geek, propeller head, clustergeeking, geek out, wannabee, terminal junkie, spod, weenie.
  • computerising — Present participle of computerise.
  • computerizing — Present participle of computerize.
  • concertgebouw — a concert hall in Amsterdam, inaugurated in 1888: the Concertgebouw Orchestra established in 1888, has been independent of the hall since World War II
  • configurative — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • confusingness — causing or tending to cause confusion: a confusing attempt at explanation.
  • conglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglutinate.
  • congratulable — worthy of congratulation
  • congratulated — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
  • congratulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of congratulate.
  • congruousness — The state or quality of being congruous.
  • conjugateness — The quality of being conjugate.
  • consanguineal — having the same ancestry or descent; related by blood.
  • coolidge tube — a cathode ray tube, used for x-ray production, in which a beam of thermoelectrons is produced by heating a wire cathode.
  • coralligenous — producing coral
  • cottage tulip — a late-flowering type of tulip, usually having pointed or elongated flowers.
  • cough and die — (jargon)   barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.
  • cough mixture — Cough mixture is the same as cough medicine.
  • countenancing — appearance, especially the look or expression of the face: a sad countenance.
  • counter image — the point or set of points in the domain of a function corresponding to a given point or set of points in the range of the function.
  • counter-argue — to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment.
  • counteracting — Present participle of counteract.
  • counterboring — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
  • counterchange — to change parts, qualities, etc
  • countercharge — a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser
  • countermining — Present participle of countermine.
  • countermoving — Present participle of countermove.
  • countersigned — a sign used in reply to another sign.
  • counterspying — the activities of a counterspy
  • counterweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counterweigh.
  • counterweight — A counterweight is an action or proposal that is intended to balance or counter other actions or proposals.
  • countinghouse — a building, room, or office used for keeping books and transacting business
  • coup de grace — A coup de grace is an action or event which finally destroys something, for example an institution, which has been gradually growing weaker.
  • coup de poing — (no longer in technical use) a Lower Paleolithic stone hand ax, pointed or ovate in shape and having sharp cutting edges.
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