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13-letter words containing o, u, a, g

  • computer game — A computer game is a game that you play on a computer or on a small portable piece of electronic equipment.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • conjugateness — The quality of being conjugate.
  • conjugational — Of or pertaining to conjugation.
  • consanguineal — having the same ancestry or descent; related by blood.
  • consanguinity — relationship by blood; kinship
  • coralligenous — producing coral
  • cottage tulip — a late-flowering type of tulip, usually having pointed or elongated flowers.
  • cough and die — (jargon)   barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.
  • count against — If something counts against you, it may cause you to be rejected or punished, or cause people to have a lower opinion of you.
  • countenancing — appearance, especially the look or expression of the face: a sad countenance.
  • counter image — the point or set of points in the domain of a function corresponding to a given point or set of points in the range of the function.
  • counter-argue — to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment.
  • counteracting — Present participle of counteract.
  • counterchange — to change parts, qualities, etc
  • countercharge — a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser
  • coup de grace — A coup de grace is an action or event which finally destroys something, for example an institution, which has been gradually growing weaker.
  • court hearing — an official meeting held in court
  • court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
  • cousin-german — the child of one's aunt or uncle
  • crustaceology — The branch of zoology dealing with crustaceans.
  • cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • daguerreotype — one of the earliest photographic processes, in which the image was produced on iodine-sensitized silver and developed in mercury vapour
  • daguerreotypy — The art or technique of producing daguerreotypes.
  • daguerrotypes — Plural form of daguerrotype, a misspelling of daguerreotype.
  • dangerousness — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
  • daughterboard — a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer
  • dean of guild — the titular head of the guild or merchant company in a Scots burgh, who formerly exercised jurisdiction over all building in the burgh in the Dean of Guild Court
  • deglutination — to extract the gluten from.
  • degranulation — a cellular process in which cytoplasmic granules within certain cells secrete their contents, often to the outside of the cell
  • dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
  • dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
  • deuteragonist — (in ancient Greek drama) the character next in importance to the protagonist, esp the antagonist
  • digital audio — (multimedia, file format)   A sequence of discrete samples taken from a continuous sound (audio) waveform. Tens of thousands of samples are taken each second. Each sample represents the intensity of the sound pressure wave at that instant. Apart from the sampling frequency, the other parameter is the digital encoding of each sample including the number of bits used. The encoding may be linear, logarithmic or mu-law. Digital audio is typically created by taking 16-bit samples over a spectrum of 44.1 thousand cycles per second (kHz), this means that CD quality sound requires 1.4 million bits of data per second. Digital telephone systems use lower sample rates. See also Audio IFF, MP3, wav. A FAQ on audio file formats is available. Part 1, Part 2.
  • digital fount — a typeface of which the letter-shapes have been converted into digital form so that they can be used in computer-aided typesetting
  • disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
  • disfiguration — an act or instance of disfiguring.
  • disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
  • dna computing — (architecture)   The use of DNA molecules to encode computational problems. Standard operations of molecular biology can then be used to solve some NP-hard search problems in parallel using a very large number of molecules. The exponential scaling of NP-hard problems still remains, so this method will require a huge amount of DNA to solve large problems.
  • double dagger — a mark (‡) used for references, as footnotes.
  • double garage — a garage that can hold two vehicles
  • double magnum — Jeroboam (def 2).
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