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13-letter words containing n, o, g, u, c

  • congratulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of congratulate.
  • congruousness — The state or quality of being congruous.
  • conjugateness — The quality of being conjugate.
  • conjugational — Of or pertaining to conjugation.
  • consanguineal — having the same ancestry or descent; related by blood.
  • consanguinity — relationship by blood; kinship
  • control group — any group used as a control in a statistical experiment, esp a group of patients who receive either a placebo or a standard drug during an investigation of the effects of another drug on other patients
  • coralligenous — producing coral
  • couch surfing — to stay overnight in someone’s else’s home while traveling: He couch-surfed at the houses of strangers and friends.
  • couch-hopping — to stay overnight in someone’s else’s home while traveling: He couch-surfed at the houses of strangers and friends.
  • cough and die — (jargon)   barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.
  • count against — If something counts against you, it may cause you to be rejected or punished, or cause people to have a lower opinion of you.
  • countenancing — appearance, especially the look or expression of the face: a sad countenance.
  • counter image — the point or set of points in the domain of a function corresponding to a given point or set of points in the range of the function.
  • counter-argue — to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment.
  • counteracting — Present participle of counteract.
  • counterboring — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
  • counterchange — to change parts, qualities, etc
  • countercharge — a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser
  • countermining — Present participle of countermine.
  • countermoving — Present participle of countermove.
  • countersigned — a sign used in reply to another sign.
  • counterspying — the activities of a counterspy
  • counterweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counterweigh.
  • counterweight — A counterweight is an action or proposal that is intended to balance or counter other actions or proposals.
  • counting room — counting house.
  • countinghouse — a building, room, or office used for keeping books and transacting business
  • coup de poing — (no longer in technical use) a Lower Paleolithic stone hand ax, pointed or ovate in shape and having sharp cutting edges.
  • court hearing — an official meeting held in court
  • court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
  • cousin-german — the child of one's aunt or uncle
  • cross-cutting — linking traditionally separate or independent parties or interests
  • crowd surfing — the practice of being passed over the top of a crowd of people such as an audience at a pop concert
  • crowdsourcing — Crowdsourcing is the practice of getting ideas or help on a project from a large number of people, usually through the Internet.
  • cucking stool — stool in which suspected witches were tested
  • cummingtonite — an amphibole mineral, magnesium iron silicate hydroxide, found in metamorphic rocks
  • curling irons — a metal scissor-like device that is heated, so that strands of hair may be twined around it in order to form curls
  • curling stone — a large, heavy, ellipsoidal stone or a similar object made of iron, usually having one rough side and one smooth side with a hole in the center of each for screwing in a handle by which the stone is released, for use in the game of curling.
  • curling tongs — a metal scissor-like device that is heated, so that strands of hair may be twined around it in order to form curls
  • cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • cutting horse — a saddle horse trained for use in separating an individual animal, such as a cow, from a herd
  • decommunizing — Present participle of decommunize.
  • decompounding — Present participle of decompound.
  • dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
  • discontiguity — the quality of being discontiguous
  • discontiguous — disconnected or without contact
  • discontinuing — Present participle of discontinue.
  • dna computing — (architecture)   The use of DNA molecules to encode computational problems. Standard operations of molecular biology can then be used to solve some NP-hard search problems in parallel using a very large number of molecules. The exponential scaling of NP-hard problems still remains, so this method will require a huge amount of DNA to solve large problems.
  • double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
  • duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
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