14-letter words containing g, u, i, n, e
- chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
- church integer — (theory) A representation of integers as functions invented by Alonzo Church, inventor of lambda-calculus. The integer N is represented as a higher-order function which applies a given function N times to a given expression. In the pure lambda-calculus there are no constants but numbers can be represented by Church integers. A Haskell function to return a given Church integer could be written: unchurch c = c (+1) 0 See also von Neumann integer.
- church wedding — a wedding ceremony performed in a church and having a religious rather than civil content
- cigarette burn — a burn created by a cigarette
- circumnavigate — If someone circumnavigates the world or an island, they sail all the way around it.
- cisalpine gaul — (in the ancient world) that part of Gaul between the Alps and the Apennines
- ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
- cleaning fluid — a solvent or other solution for removing stains or cleaning particular objects
- clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
- clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
- clustergeeking — (jargon) /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
- commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
- concert tuning — the standard tuning for a guitar: E A D G B E
- conjugate axis — the axis of a hyperbola perpendicular to the transverse axis at a point equidistant from the foci.
- consanguineous — having the same ancestor; closely related
- contagiousness — capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object: contagious diseases.
- contiguousness — The state or quality of being contiguous.
- cornucopia leg — a leg used on pieces in the Directoire and Empire styles, curving downward from the piece and curving upward again to a point and having a foot or caster at the lowest part of the curve.
- cough medicine — Cough medicine is liquid medicine that you take when you have a cough.
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- counterfeiting — the making of fraudulent copies; forgery
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
- counterpoising — Present participle of counterpoise.
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- countersigning — Present participle of countersign.
- countersinking — Present participle of countersink.
- countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
- 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
- creeping jesus — an obsequious or servile person
- cruising range — the distance an aircraft can fly before it needs to refuel
- cruising speed — the speed at which a ship, car, or aircraft travels most efficiently
- cuprotungstite — (mineral) A tetragonal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and tungsten.
- current rating — Current rating is the maximum current that a fuse will carry for an indefinite period without too much deterioration of the fuse element.
- cutting garden — a household flower garden planted solely for growing flowers that are to be cut and displayed indoors.
- cyanoguanidine — dicyandiamide.
- cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- de-icing fluid — a liquid that removes or discourages the formation of ice
- debugging tool — debugger
- deconstructing — Present participle of deconstruct.
- delightfulness — The state or quality of being delightful.
- denuclearizing — Present participle of denuclearize.
- deoxyguanosine — (biochemistry) A deoxyribonucleoside related to guanosine.
- depressurizing — Present participle of depressurize.
- 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.