15-letter words containing o, g, a, u, e
- corrugated iron — a thin structural sheet made of iron or steel, formed with alternating ridges and troughs
- cottage country — any lakeside region where many country cottages are located
- cottage pudding — plain cake covered with a sweet sauce
- counteractingly — In a way that counteracts.
- counterargument — A counterargument is an argument that makes an opposing point to another argument.
- countercampaign — a campaign responding to another campaign
- countercharging — Present participle of countercharge.
- countercharming — Present participle of countercharm.
- counterclaiming — Present participle of counterclaim.
- counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
- countermarching — Present participle of countermarch.
- counterrotating — (of two corresponding or similar moving parts) rotating in opposite directions: counterrotating propellers.
- counterstrategy — a strategy designed to counter the effectiveness of another strategy or action
- country cottage — a small house in the country, esp one used for holidays
- cranberry gourd — a South American vine, Abobra tenuifolia, of the gourd family, having deeply lobed, ovate leaves and bearing a berrylike scarlet fruit.
- cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
- crustaceologist — One who studies crustaceology.
- customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
- cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
- daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
- daguerreotypist — an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
- day of judgment — Judgment Day
- disadvantageous — characterized by or involving disadvantage; unfavorable; detrimental.
- double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
- double negation — the principle that a statement is equivalent to the denial of its negation, as it is not the case that John is not here meaning John is here
- double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.
- dougherty wagon — a horse- or mule-drawn passenger wagon having doors on the side, transverse seats, and canvas sides that can be rolled down.
- electrosurgical — Relating to electrosurgery.
- elegiac couplet — a couplet composed of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter
- excommunicating — Present participle of excommunicate.
- flange coupling — a driving coupling between rotating shafts that consists of flanges (or half couplings) one of which is fixed at the end of each shaft, the two flanges being bolted together with a ring of bolts to complete the drive
- flapping router — (networking) A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
- fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.
- football league — highest-level soccer competition
- forget about it — don't mention it, you're welcome
- formal argument — (programming) (Or "parameter") A name in a function or subroutine definition that is replaced by, or bound to, the corresponding actual argument when the function or subroutine is called. In many languages formal arguments behave like local variables which get initialised on entry. See: argument.
- formal language — correct or polite words and phrases
- foster daughter — a girl raised like one's own daughter, though not such by birth or adoption.
- founding father — The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
- galvanic couple — voltaic couple.
- gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.
- general journal — A general journal is a journal recording all of the transactions of a business.
- general-purpose — useful in many ways; not limited in use or function: a good general-purpose dictionary.
- gesta romanorum — a popular collection of tales in Latin with moral applications, compiled in the late 13th century as a manual for preachers
- get out of jail — to get out of a difficult situation
- get outta here! — go away!
- ghetto fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
- ghetto-fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
- giant sunflower — a composite plant, Helianthus giganteus, of eastern North America, growing nearly 12 feet (4 meters) high and having very large yellow flower heads.
- gigantopithecus — a genus of extinct ape of southern Asia existing during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, known only from very large fossil jaws and teeth and believed to be perhaps the biggest hominoid that ever lived.