16-letter words containing o, l, g

climatologically — In climatological terms.
cloak-and-dagger — A cloak-and-dagger activity is one which involves mystery and secrecy.
clootie dumpling — a boiled suet pudding containing dried fruits
closing argument — In a court case, a lawyer's closing argument is their final speech, in which they give a summary of their case.
cocktail sausage — a small sausage served with drinks
cog in the wheel — small part of a large system
coleridge-taylor — Samuel. 1875–1912, British composer, best known for his trilogy of oratorios Song of Hiawatha (1898–1900)
collagen disease — any of a group of diseases, as systemic lupus erythematosus, polyarteritis, scleroderma, and rheumatoid arthritis, involving inflammation or degeneration of connective tissue and accompanied by deposition of fibrinous material.
college graduate — a student who has recently graduated from college
colonial heights — a town in central Virginia.
colorado springs — a city and resort in central Colorado. Pop: 370 448 (2003 est)
columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
come/bring alive — If a story or description comes alive, it becomes interesting, lively, or realistic. If someone or something brings it alive, they make it seem more interesting, lively, or realistic.
command language — the language used to access a computer system
common knowledge — something widely or generally known
common logarithm — a logarithm to the base ten. Usually written log or log10
complexing agent — an intricate or complicated association or assemblage of related things, parts, units, etc.: the entire complex of our educational system; an apartment complex.
congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
congressionalist — of or relating to a congress.
consanguineously — In a consanguineous fashion; by blood relationship.
consenting adult — a male person over the age of sixteen, who may legally engage in homosexual behaviour in private
constant folding — (compiler) A compiler optimisation technique where constant subexpressions are evaluated at compile time. This is usually only applied to built-in numerical and boolean operators whereas partial evaluation is more general in that expressions involving user-defined functions may also be evaluated at compile time.
consulting hours — the hours during which health practitioners are available for consultation
contingency plan — a plan to be carried out if a more likely or desired outcome does not happen
contract killing — a murder carried out in fulfilment of a contract
control language — (language) (CL) The batch language for IBM RPG/38, used in conjunction with RPG III. See also OCL.
copyright symbol — (character, legal) "©" The internationally recognised symbol required to introduce a copyright notice, a letter C with a circle around it. This can be encoded in ISO 8859-1 as character code decimal 169, hexadecimal A9, in HTML as ©, © or ©. A "c" in parentheses: "(c)" is sometimes used in documents stored in a coded character set such as ASCII that does not include the C in a circle, but this has no legal meaning.
corporal's guard — a squad commanded by a corporal
correcting plate — a thin lens used to correct incoming light rays in special forms of reflecting telescopes.
cottage hospital — a small rural hospital
counterbalancing — Present participle of counterbalance.
counterchallenge — A challenge made in response to another challenge.
counterguerrilla — (of operations, conflicts, etc) conducted against guerrillas
cryptozoological — (cryptozoology) Of or pertaining to cryptozoology.
cryptozoologists — Plural form of cryptozoologist.
crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
crystallographic — of, relating to, or dealing with crystals or crystallography.
curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
cygnus tcl tools — (tool) A rebundling of Tcl and Tk into the Cygnus GNU build framework with "configure" by david d 'zoo' zuhn <[email protected]>.
cytotechnologist — a technician who specializes in identifying cells and cellular abnormalities.
dangling pointer — (programming) A reference that doesn't actually lead anywhere. In C and some other languages, a pointer that doesn't actually point at anything valid. Usually this happens because it formerly pointed to something that has moved or disappeared, e.g. a heap-allocated block which has been freed and reused. Used as jargon in a generalisation of its technical meaning; for example, a local phone number for a person who has since moved is a dangling pointer.
daylight robbery — If someone charges you a great deal of money for something and you think this is unfair or unreasonable, you can refer to this as daylight robbery.
de broglie waves — the set of waves that represent the behaviour of an elementary particle, or some atoms and molecules, under certain conditions. The de Broglie wavelength, λ, is given by λ = h/mv, where h is the Planck constant, m the mass, and v the velocity of the particle
de morgan's laws — (in formal logic and set theory) the principles that conjunction and disjunction, or union and intersection, are dual. Thus the negation of P & Q is equivalent to not-P or not-Q
de-anglicization — (in Ireland) the elimination of English influence, language, customs, etc
deflationary gap — a situation in which total spending in an economy is insufficient to buy all the output that can be produced with full employment
deflecting force — the apparent deflection (Coriolis acceleration) of a body in motion with respect to the earth, as seen by an observer on the earth, attributed to a fictitious force (Coriolis force) but actually caused by the rotation of the earth and appearing as a deflection to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and a deflection to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
delegitimization — The act or process of delegitimizing.
dendrochronology — the study of the annual rings of trees, used esp to date past events
deoxyhaemoglobin — (biochemistry) The form of haemoglobin that has released its oxygen.

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