13-letter words containing o, n, g, u
- bouncing bomb — a bomb used by the RAF in World War II, designed to bounce along water
- bouquet garni — A bouquet garni is a bunch of herbs that are tied together and used in cooking to add flavour to the food.
- bourdon gauge — a type of aneroid pressure gauge consisting of a flattened curved tube attached to a pointer that moves around a dial. As the pressure in the tube increases the tube tends to straighten and the pointer indicates the applied pressure
- bourguignonne — Burgundy (def 5).
- brain surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in brain surgery
- brassfounding — the practice of making things from brass
- brigham young — Andrew (Jackson, Jr.) born 1932, U.S. clergyman, civil-rights leader, politician, and diplomat: mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, 1981–89.
- brownie guide — a member of the Brownie Guides, one of the junior branches (aged 7–10 years) in The Guide Association
- buffalo wings — spicy fried segments of chicken wings, usually served with celery sticks and a sauce of blue cheese
- building plot — a piece of land on which a house can be built
- burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
- burrowing owl — a ground owl (Athene cunicularia) of the prairie regions of North and South America having long legs and a small head: it makes its nest in abandoned burrows
- calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
- canon regular — a clergyman of certain religious communities following a monastic rule
- cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
- cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
- casting couch — a couch on which a casting director is said to seduce women seeking a part in a film or play
- centre ground — the nominal space in the political spectrum that is neither right or left
- chaise longue — A chaise longue is a kind of sofa with only one arm and usually a back along half its length.
- chaise lounge — A chaise lounge is the same as a chaise longue.
- changchiak'ou — Zhangjiakou.
- chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
- churn molding — a molding decorated with chevrons.
- circumvolving — Present participle of circumvolve.
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
- coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
- coco language — (language) (Cocol) A language for writing left-attributed LL1 grammars, used as the input language for the Coco LL1 parser generator, which produces Modula-2 table-driven parsers as output. Cocol-2 is a version for the Coco-2 generator. Cocol/R is an improvement over the original Cocol and Cocol-2.
- cold moulding — the production of moulded articles from resins that polymerize chemically
- college-bound — intending to go to college
- common ground — If two people or groups find common ground, they agree about something, especially when they do not agree about other things.
- common iguana — the green iguana (Iguana iguana)
- communalizing — Present participle of communalize.
- communicating — making or having a direct connection from one room to another
- communicology — the study of communication.
- compsognathus — any bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Compsognathus, of late Jurassic age, having a slender body that reached a length of 30 inches (76 cm).
- computerising — Present participle of computerise.
- computerizing — Present participle of computerize.
- concertgebouw — a concert hall in Amsterdam, inaugurated in 1888: the Concertgebouw Orchestra established in 1888, has been independent of the hall since World War II
- confabulating — Present participle of confabulate.
- configurating — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
- configuration — A configuration is an arrangement of a group of things.
- configurative — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
- confoundingly — in a confounding manner
- confusingness — causing or tending to cause confusion: a confusing attempt at explanation.
- conglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglutinate.
- conglutinator — an agent that conglutinates
- congratulable — worthy of congratulation
- congratulated — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
- congratulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of congratulate.