14-letter words containing n, u, g, a, c
- conglomerateur — a person who forms or leads a business conglomerate
- conglutinating — Present participle of conglutinate.
- conglutination — glued together; adhering.
- congratulating — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
- congratulation — the act of congratulating
- congratulatory — A congratulatory message expresses congratulations.
- conjugate axis — the axis of a hyperbola perpendicular to the transverse axis at a point equidistant from the foci.
- consanguineous — having the same ancestor; closely related
- consul general — a consul of the highest grade, usually stationed in a city of considerable commercial importance
- consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
- contagiousness — capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object: contagious diseases.
- cornucopia leg — a leg used on pieces in the Directoire and Empire styles, curving downward from the piece and curving upward again to a point and having a foot or caster at the lowest part of the curve.
- costume change — a change of costume by an actor
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- counterchanged — Exchanged.
- countercharged — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharge.
- countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
- counterprogram — to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete with one on another station.
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
- 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
- cruising range — the distance an aircraft can fly before it needs to refuel
- cruising yacht — a yacht which is used for holiday trips
- cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
- current rating — Current rating is the maximum current that a fuse will carry for an indefinite period without too much deterioration of the fuse element.
- cutting garden — a household flower garden planted solely for growing flowers that are to be cut and displayed indoors.
- cyanoguanidine — dicyandiamide.
- cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
- denuclearizing — Present participle of denuclearize.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
- dna sequencing — the procedure of determining the order of base pairs in a section of DNA
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- drug addiction — dependence on a chemical substance
- ductless gland — endocrine gland.
- dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- eau de cologne — cologne.
- education page — a page in a newspaper devoted to news relating to education or teaching
- encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
- eugeosynclinal — of or relating to a eugeosyncline
- excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
- faculty lounge — a staffroom
- fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
- field guidance — a method of guiding a missile to a point within a gravitational or radio field by means of the properties of the field
- floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
- fragrant sumac — a sprawling shrub, Rhus aromatica, of the cashew family, native to eastern North America, having aromatic foliage and greenish-yellow flowers in small spikes.