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

  • non-liturgical — of or relating to formal public worship or liturgies.
  • nonchurchgoing — Not attending church.
  • noncirculating — not circulating
  • over-consuming — to destroy or expend by use; use up.
  • overindulgence — excessive indulgence
  • phloroglucinol — a white to yellow, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, C 6 H 3 (OH) 3 ⋅2H 2 O, used chiefly in analytical chemistry and in the preparation of pharmaceuticals.
  • pre-accounting — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
  • pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
  • racing colours — the colours painted on a racing car to represent the nation of the car or driver
  • retrocomputing — /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; especially if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more "serious" designs. Perhaps the most widely distributed retrocomputing utility was the "pnch(6)" or "bcd(6)" program on V7 and other early Unix versions, which would accept up to 80 characters of text argument and display the corresponding pattern in punched card code. Other well-known retrocomputing hacks have included the programming language INTERCAL, a JCL-emulating shell for Unix, the card-punch-emulating editor named 029, and various elaborate PDP-11 hardware emulators and RT-11 OS emulators written just to keep an old, sourceless Zork binary running.
  • ribbon-cutting — a ceremony marking the official opening of a site, the commencement of its construction, etc., typically involving the cutting of a ribbon suspended as across an entrance
  • rolling cutter — A rolling cutter is a drill bit which is often used for drilling hard rock.
  • rolling launch — the process of introducing a new product into a market gradually
  • routing policy — (networking)   Rules implemented on a router or other network device to select routes from peers, customers, and upstream providers; select and modify routes you send to peers, customers and upstream providers and identify routes within your own Autonomous System.
  • soul-searching — the act or process of close and penetrating analysis of oneself, to determine one's true motives and sentiments.
  • staghorn sumac — a sumac, Rhus typhina, of eastern North America, having leaves that turn scarlet, orange, and purple in the autumn.
  • subcontracting — outsourcing of contract work
  • tumorigenicity — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
  • uncompromising — not admitting of compromise or adjustment of differences; making no concessions; inaccessible to flexible bargaining; unyielding: an uncompromising attitude.
  • uncrowned king — a man or woman of high status among a certain group
  • ungraciousness — the state of being ungracious
  • unrecognizable — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • unrecognizably — in an unrecognizable or unidentifiable manner
  • vacuum forming — a process in which a sheet of warmed thermoplastic is shaped by placing it in a mould and applying suction
  • wearing course — the top layer of a road that carries the traffic; road surface
  • wine-producing — of or relating to a place where wine is produced
  • zingiberaceous — belonging to the Zingiberaceae, the ginger family of plants.
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