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15-letter words containing p, o, g

  • biobibliography — a bibliography containing biographical sketches of the authors listed.
  • biopsychologist — a field of psychology that deals with the effects of biological factors on behavior.
  • biostratigraphy — the examination of the ages of rock strata by using fossils
  • bird of passage — If you refer to someone as a bird of passage, you mean that they are staying in a place for a short time before going to another place.
  • blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
  • blood poisoning — Blood poisoning is a serious illness resulting from an infection in your blood.
  • blotch printing — a fabric-printing method in which the ground color is transferred from the cylinder and the motif retains the original hue of the cloth.
  • break-out group — a group of people who detach themselves from a larger group or meeting in order to hold separate discussions
  • breaking plough — a plough with a long shallow mouldboard for turning virgin land or sod land
  • bronzing powder — the powder used in bronzing, consisting of alloys of bronze or brass
  • campaign button — a disk-shaped pin worn by a supporter of a political candidate, usually bearing the name of the candidate and often a slogan or the candidate's picture.
  • campaign ribbon — a distinctively colored ribbon, either on a small, narrow bar or in the form of a strip, representing a military campaign participated in by the wearer.
  • campaign worker — a person who carries out duties for a political candidate or party, esp before an election
  • cape gooseberry — a tropical American solanaceous plant, Physalis peruviana, naturalized in southern Africa, having yellow flowers and edible yellow berries
  • catastrophising — Present participle of catastrophise.
  • catastrophizing — Present participle of catastrophize.
  • channel hopping — (chat)   To rapidly switch channels on IRC, or a GEnie chat board. This term may derive from the TV idiom, "channel surfing".
  • channel-hopping — Channel-hopping means switching quickly between different television channels because you are looking for something interesting to watch.
  • cholangiography — radiographic examination of the bile ducts after the introduction into them of a contrast medium
  • chop and change — When people chop and change, they keep changing their minds about what to do or how to act.
  • choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
  • chromatographer — A person skilled in chromatography or who operates a chromatograph.
  • chromatographic — (analytical chemistry) Of or pertaining to chromatography.
  • chromoxylograph — a coloured print created from printing with wooden blocks
  • cineangiography — the use of motion-picture recording to trace the passage of dye through blood vessels, for the diagnosis of heart and blood vessel disease
  • cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
  • cinematographer — A cinematographer is a person who decides what filming techniques should be used during the shooting of a film.
  • cinematographic — a motion-picture projector.
  • cinemicrography — the making of a film through the lens of a microscope
  • cineradiography — the filming of motion pictures through a fluoroscope or x-ray machine.
  • cloud computing — Cloud computing is a model of computer use in which services that are available on the Internet are provided to users on a temporary basis.
  • college pudding — a baked or steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit and spice
  • come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
  • come up smiling — to recover cheerfully from misfortune
  • compassionating — Present participle of compassionate.
  • compleat angler — a book on fishing (1653) by Izaak Walton.
  • composing stick — a metal holder of adjustable width in which a compositor sets a line of type at a time by hand; now rarely used
  • compound engine — a steam engine in which the steam is expanded in more than one stage, first in a high-pressure cylinder and then in one or more low-pressure cylinders
  • compound magnet — a magnet consisting of two or more separate magnets placed together with like poles pointing in the same direction.
  • comprehendingly — In an comprehending manner; knowingly.
  • computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
  • conceptualising — Present participle of conceptualise.
  • conceptualizing — Present participle of conceptualize.
  • congress-people — congressmember.
  • connected graph — (mathematics)   A graph such that there is a path between any pair of nodes (via zero or more other nodes). Thus if we start from any node and visit all nodes connected to it by a single edge, then all nodes connected to any of them, and so on, then we will eventually have visited every node in the connected graph.
  • contadora group — a group of four Latin American nations, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela, formed in January, 1983, to help solve the problems of the region.
  • control program — (operating system)   (CP) The component of IBM's Virtual Machine (VM) that provides "guest support" for operating systems that run on IBM mainframe compatible processors. Cp does this by providing a seamless emulation of privileged functions in the problem program environment.
  • cooling process — the process of becoming cooler
  • copenhagen blue — a greyish-blue colour
  • copying machine — a machine that makes copies of original documents, especially by xerography.
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