15-letter words containing n, a, u, g
- counterargument — A counterargument is an argument that makes an opposing point to another argument.
- countercampaign — a campaign responding to another campaign
- countercharging — Present participle of countercharge.
- countercharming — Present participle of countercharm.
- counterclaiming — Present participle of counterclaim.
- counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
- countermarching — Present participle of countermarch.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- cruising radius — the greatest distance that an aircraft or ship can cruise, away from and back to a certain point without refueling
- 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.
- cultural cringe — the perception that one's own culture is inferior to that of another group or country
- culture jamming — a form of political and social activism which, by means of fake adverts, hoax news stories, pastiches of company logos and product labels, computer hacking, etc, draws attention to and at the same time subverts the power of the media, governments, and large corporations to control and distort the information that they give to the public in order to promote consumerism, militarism, etc
- cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
- customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
- cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking) The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
- daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
- daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
- day of judgment — Judgment Day
- de bruijn graph — (mathematics) A class of graphs with elegant properties. De Bruijn graphs are especially easy to use for routing, with shifting of source and destination addresses.
- deculturalizing — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- diamond cutting — the art or work of cutting and shaping rough diamonds to make them suitable for use by the jewellery trade
- die standing up — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- disadvantageous — characterized by or involving disadvantage; unfavorable; detrimental.
- disambiguations — Plural form of disambiguation.
- disarticulating — Present participle of disarticulate.
- disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
- distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- distinguishably — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
- double negation — the principle that a statement is equivalent to the denial of its negation, as it is not the case that John is not here meaning John is here
- double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.
- doubting thomas — a person who refuses to believe without proof; skeptic. John 20:24–29.
- dougherty wagon — a horse- or mule-drawn passenger wagon having doors on the side, transverse seats, and canvas sides that can be rolled down.
- draughtproofing — Present participle of draughtproof.
- draughtsmanship — (British) alternative spelling of draftsmanship.
- drawing account — an account used by a partner or employee for cash withdrawals.
- dynamic routing — (networking) (Or "adaptive routing") Routing that adjusts automatically to network topology or traffic changes.
- embalming fluid — a liquid used to treat a dead body, which contains preservatives to retard putrefaction
- estuary english — a variety of standard British English in which the pronunciation reflects various features characteristic of London and the Southeast of England
- excommunicating — Present participle of excommunicate.
- extralinguistic — Outside the realm of linguistics.
- family grouping — a system, used usually in the infant school, of grouping children of various ages together, esp for project work
- figurate number — a number having the property that the same number of equally spaced dots can be arranged in the shape of a regular geometrical figure.
- fishing harbour — a place where fishing boats are tied up