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14-letter words containing n, o, c, g, r, u

  • 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
  • courageousness — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
  • courting chair — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
  • crossing guard — school (crossing) guard
  • cuprotungstite — (mineral) A tetragonal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and tungsten.
  • deconstructing — Present participle of deconstruct.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.
  • drug addiction — dependence on a chemical substance
  • encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
  • flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
  • food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
  • francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • garden produce — cultivated or farm-produced goods, such as fruit and vegetables
  • gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
  • geiger counter — an instrument for detecting ionizing radiations, consisting of a gas-filled tube in which electric-current pulses are produced when the gas is ionized by radiation, and of a device to register these pulses: used chiefly to measure radioactivity.
  • geosynchronous — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
  • golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
  • grand junction — a city in W Colorado.
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
  • ground control — an airport facility that supervises the movement of aircraft and ground vehicles on ramps and taxiways.
  • ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
  • gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • incongruencies — Plural form of incongruency.
  • isocyano group — the univalent group −NC.
  • juicing orange — an orange that is grown especially for its juice, for example the Valencia orange
  • junior college — a collegiate institution offering courses only through the first one or two years of college instruction and granting a certificate of title instead of a degree.
  • kangaroo court — a self-appointed or mob-operated tribunal that disregards or parodies existing principles of law or human rights, especially one in a frontier area or among criminals in prison.
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
  • margin account — an account opened by a customer with a brokerage house in which listed securities can be purchased on margin.
  • microcomputing — the use of microcomputers.
  • misgovernaunce — misgovernment
  • mispronouncing — Present participle of mispronounce.
  • mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • mourning cloak — a common butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) having purplish-brown wings with a wide yellow border, found throughout Europe and North America
  • moving picture — A moving picture is a film.
  • mulching mower — a lawn mower that shreds blades of grass into very small pieces that are left on the lawn to decay and return moisture and nutrients to the soil
  • neurocognition — Any form of cognition that is associated with the functioning of one or more specific areas of the brain.
  • neurocognitive — Pertaining to cognitive functions that are linked to a particular area, pathway or network of the brain.
  • neurocomputing — computing that makes use of neural networks
  • neurogenically — by neural activity
  • neurologically — the science of the nerves and the nervous system, especially of the diseases affecting them.
  • non-congruence — the quality or state of agreeing or corresponding.
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