14-letter words containing n, u, g
- cable trunking — Cable trunking is an enclosure usually with a rectangular cross section, and with one removable or hinged side, that is used to protect cables and provide space for other electrical equipment.
- cadmium orange — a yellow color approaching orange.
- cancer-causing — having the ability to induce the growth of a malignant tumour
- canons regular — one of a body of dignitaries or prebendaries attached to a cathedral or a collegiate church; a member of the chapter of a cathedral or a collegiate church.
- carbonyl group — the bivalent radical CO, occurring in acids, ketones, aldehydes, and their derivatives.
- centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
- centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
- charge account — a business arrangement by which a customer may buy goods or services and pay for them within a specified future period
- charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
- chauvinist pig — a sexist man
- chest-thumping — the act or practice of boasting.
- child guidance — the counselling of emotionally disturbed children
- chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
- christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- church integer — (theory) A representation of integers as functions invented by Alonzo Church, inventor of lambda-calculus. The integer N is represented as a higher-order function which applies a given function N times to a given expression. In the pure lambda-calculus there are no constants but numbers can be represented by Church integers. A Haskell function to return a given Church integer could be written: unchurch c = c (+1) 0 See also von Neumann integer.
- church wedding — a wedding ceremony performed in a church and having a religious rather than civil content
- cigarette burn — a burn created by a cigarette
- circumgyration — the act of rolling, turning, or travelling about
- circumnavigate — If someone circumnavigates the world or an island, they sail all the way around it.
- circumscribing — Present participle of circumscribe.
- circumstancing — Present participle of circumstance.
- cisalpine gaul — (in the ancient world) that part of Gaul between the Alps and the Apennines
- ciudad guayana — an industrial conurbation in E Venezuela, on the River Orinoco: iron and steel processing, gold mining. Pop: 807 000 (2005 est)
- ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
- cleaning fluid — a solvent or other solution for removing stains or cleaning particular objects
- clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
- clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
- clustergeeking — (jargon) /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
- coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
- coffee grounds — the used ground beans that remain in a pot or coffee-maker
- colouring book — A colouring book is a book of simple drawings which children can colour in.
- come to nought — If you try to do something but your efforts are not successful, you can say that your efforts come to nought.
- commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
- compound sugar — any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.
- concert tuning — the standard tuning for a guitar: E A D G B E
- configuraholic — (jargon) A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
- configurations — Plural form of configuration.
- conglobulation — the act of conglobing
- 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
- consumer goods — Consumer goods are items bought by people for their own use, rather than by businesses. Compare capital goods.