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14-letter words containing o, c, u, l, g

  • eulogistically — In the form or manner of a eulogy; with praise.
  • faculty lounge — a staffroom
  • floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
  • fluid coupling — Machinery. an apparatus in which a fluid, usually oil, transmits torque from one shaft to another, producing an equal torque in the other shaft.
  • flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
  • focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
  • food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
  • 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.
  • galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • gastrovascular — serving for digestion and circulation, as a cavity.
  • geolinguistics — the study of the geographical distribution of languages
  • gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
  • global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
  • glucocorticoid — any of a class of steroid hormones that are synthesized by the adrenal cortex of vertebrates and have anti-inflammatory activity.
  • glyceryl group — the trivalent group (C 3 H 5)− 3 , derived from glycerol.
  • 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.
  • gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • 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 velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
  • gulf of cambay — an inlet of the Arabian Sea on the W coast of India, southeast of the Kathiawar Peninsula
  • gulf of mexico — a republic in S North America. 761,530 sq. mi. (1,972,363 sq. km). . Capital: Mexico City.
  • gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
  • hallucinogenic — producing hallucinations: a hallucinogenic drug.
  • happy-go-lucky — trusting cheerfully to luck; happily unworried or unconcerned.
  • house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • incontiguously — in an incontiguous or unconnected fashion; discretely
  • 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.
  • king's counsel — a body of barristers of a higher status who are specially appointed to be the crown's counsel, and who are permitted to plead inside the bar in the court.
  • lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • legal document — a document concerning a legal matter; a document drawn up by a lawyer
  • light-coloured — having a light colour
  • lignocellulose — any of various compounds of lignin and cellulose comprising the essential part of woody cell walls.
  • logic emulator — A system of FPGAs, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, such as a microprocessor. An emulated design can be connected into the target system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an integrated circuit.
  • logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
  • lu-wang school — School of Mind.
  • luggage locker — a large locker at a transport terminal or airport where luggage can be left temporarily
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
  • malfunctioning — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
  • malpighiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical plants many of which are lianas
  • miscounselling — the act of giving bad or incorrect counselling
  • mounting-block — a block of stone formerly used to aid a person when mounting a horse
  • mourning cloak — a common butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) having purplish-brown wings with a wide yellow border, found throughout Europe and North America
  • 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
  • museologically — In a museological manner.
  • neolinguistics — a school of linguistics centered in Italy emphasizing the importance of linguistic geography in diachronic studies.
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