14-letter words containing l, o, n, g
- cosmogonically — In a cosmogonic manner.
- cost of living — The cost of living is the average amount of money that people in a particular place need in order to be able to afford basic food, housing, and clothing.
- countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
- cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
- criminological — the study of crime and criminals: a branch of sociology.
- criminologists — Plural form of criminologist.
- cross holdings — the holding of shares by one company in another company
- crowning glory — the greatest achievement
- cult following — the admiration that is felt by a particular group for a film, book, band, etc
- cycling shorts — tight-fitting shorts reaching partway to the knee for cycling, sport, etc
- cyclooxygenase — (enzyme) Any of several enzymes that catalyze the conversion of arachidonic acid into prostaglandins; their inhibition is the mode of action of aspirin and ibuprofen.
- cytotechnology — the microscopic analysis of cells for the early detection of abnormalities and diagnosis of diseases such as cancer
- daddy longlegs — A daddy longlegs is a flying insect with very long legs.
- daddy-longlegs — Also called harvestman. any of numerous spiderlike arachnids of the order Opiliones, having a compact rounded body and extremely long, slender legs.
- damage control — Damage control is action that is taken to make the bad results of something as small as possible, when it is impossible to avoid bad results completely.
- data modelling — data model
- dcc technology — DCC technology uses a catalytic process to convert heavy hydrocarbons into light olefins.
- de los angeles — Victoria (bikˈtorja). 1923–2005, Spanish soprano
- debugging tool — debugger
- delegitimation — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
- demoralizingly — in a demoralizing manner
- dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
- depoliticising — Present participle of depoliticise.
- depoliticizing — Present participle of depoliticize.
- 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.
- diagnosability — the quality of being diagnosable
- diagnostically — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- diagonal cloth — a twilled fabric woven with distinctly diagonal lines.
- diagonalisable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalised
- diagonalizable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalized
- digitalisation — Alternative spelling of digitalization.
- digitalization — (in the treatment of heart disease) the administration of digitalis, usually in a regimen, to produce a desired physiological effect.
- dinoflagellate — any of numerous chiefly marine plankton of the phylum Pyrrophyta (or, in some classification schemes, the order Dinoflagellata), usually having two flagella, one in a groove around the body and the other extending from its center.
- disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
- disapprovingly — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- discomfitingly — In a manner that discomfits.
- discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
- disembowelling — (chiefly, British) present participle of disembowel.
- disillusioning — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
- disingenuously — In a manner that is not frank or open; deceptively.
- dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
- dogmaticalness — The quality of being dogmatical.
- dongle cracker — (security) Someone who enables software that has been written to require a dongle to run without it.
- doom and gloom — gloom and doom.
- double digging — a method of digging ground in a series of trenches two spits deep, mixing the soil of the bottom spit with manure, and then transferring the soil from the top spit of one trench to the top spit of the preceding one
- double glazing — glazing consisting of two thicknesses of glass with a dead air space between them.
- double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
- double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- double wedding — a wedding in which two couples marry