14-letter words containing g, u, n, c
- 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.
- coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
- coffee grounds — the used ground beans that remain in a pot or coffee-maker
- colouring book — A colouring book is a book of simple drawings which children can colour in.
- come to nought — If you try to do something but your efforts are not successful, you can say that your efforts come to nought.
- commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
- compound sugar — any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.
- concert tuning — the standard tuning for a guitar: E A D G B E
- configuraholic — (jargon) A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
- configurations — Plural form of configuration.
- conglobulation — the act of conglobing
- conglomerateur — a person who forms or leads a business conglomerate
- conglutinating — Present participle of conglutinate.
- conglutination — glued together; adhering.
- congratulating — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
- congratulation — the act of congratulating
- congratulatory — A congratulatory message expresses congratulations.
- 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
- consul general — a consul of the highest grade, usually stationed in a city of considerable commercial importance
- consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
- consumer goods — Consumer goods are items bought by people for their own use, rather than by businesses. Compare capital goods.
- consumer group — an organization that campaigns for the rights of consumers
- contagiousness — capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object: contagious diseases.
- contiguousness — The state or quality of being contiguous.
- contour flying — the technique of flying at a constant altitude of less than 22.8 metres (75 feet) above the ground.
- 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.
- costume change — a change of costume by an actor
- cough medicine — Cough medicine is liquid medicine that you take when you have a cough.
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- counterchanged — Exchanged.
- countercharged — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharge.
- countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
- counterfeiting — the making of fraudulent copies; forgery
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
- counterpoising — Present participle of counterpoise.
- counterprogram — to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete with one on another station.
- 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
- 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