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16-letter words containing o, r, t, e, g

  • charge to a room — If you charge an item or expense to a room at a hotel, you add it to a guest's final bill so they can pay for it when they check out of the room.
  • chase the dragon — to smoke opium or heroin
  • chattel mortgage — a mortgage on movable personal property
  • cholecystography — radiography of the gall bladder after administration of a contrast medium
  • choriomeningitis — (medicine) A form of cerebral meningitis associated with inflammation of the choroid plexus.
  • christening robe — a long white dress worn by a baby at his or her christening
  • chromatographies — Plural form of chromatography.
  • chymotrypsinogen — the inactive precursor of chymotrypsin
  • cigarette holder — A cigarette holder is a narrow tube that you can put a cigarette into in order to hold it while you smoke it.
  • citronella grass — a tropical Asian grass, Cymbopogon (or Andropogon) nardus, with bluish-green lemon-scented leaves
  • cleaning product — a detergent or other household cleaner
  • closing argument — In a court case, a lawyer's closing argument is their final speech, in which they give a summary of their case.
  • cogito, ergo sum — I think, therefore I am; the basis of Descartes' philosophy
  • coleridge-taylor — Samuel. 1875–1912, British composer, best known for his trilogy of oratorios Song of Hiawatha (1898–1900)
  • college graduate — a student who has recently graduated from college
  • common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
  • community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
  • computer program — a set of instructions for a computer to perform some task
  • congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
  • congo free state — a former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • congressionalist — of or relating to a congress.
  • considering that — You use considering that to indicate that you are thinking about a particular fact when making a judgment or giving an opinion.
  • container garden — a collection of pots or other receptacles containing soil for growing plants out of doors
  • control language — (language)   (CL) The batch language for IBM RPG/38, used in conjunction with RPG III. See also OCL.
  • correcting plate — a thin lens used to correct incoming light rays in special forms of reflecting telescopes.
  • corrugated paper — a packaging material made from layers of heavy paper, the top layer of which is grooved and ridged
  • cosmetic surgery — Cosmetic surgery is surgery done to make a person look more attractive.
  • costume designer — a person who designs costumes for plays and films
  • cottage industry — A cottage industry is a small business that is run from someone's home, especially one that involves a craft such as knitting or pottery.
  • counter-argument — A counter-argument is an argument that makes an opposing point to another argument.
  • counter-checking — a check that opposes or restrains.
  • counter-strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
  • counterarguments — Plural form of counterargument.
  • counterattacking — Present participle of counterattack.
  • counterbalancing — Present participle of counterbalance.
  • counterchallenge — A challenge made in response to another challenge.
  • counterespionage — Counterespionage is the same as counterintelligence.
  • counterguerrilla — (of operations, conflicts, etc) conducted against guerrillas
  • counterinsurgent — of or relating to counterinsurgency
  • countermigration — a migration in the opposite direction.
  • countersignature — second signature
  • crossopterygians — Plural form of crossopterygian.
  • crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
  • 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.
  • data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
  • 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.
  • dearborn heights — city in SE Mich.: suburb of Detroit: pop. 58,000
  • debt forgiveness — the action or process of forgiving people their debts
  • 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.
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