16-letter words containing p, o, g
- cholecystography — radiography of the gall bladder after administration of a contrast medium
- chromatographies — Plural form of chromatography.
- chromium plating — plating, often for decorative effect, made of chromium
- chromolithograph — a picture produced by chromolithography
- chymotrypsinogen — the inactive precursor of chymotrypsin
- cleaning product — a detergent or other household cleaner
- clootie dumpling — a boiled suet pudding containing dried fruits
- colorado springs — a city and resort in central Colorado. Pop: 370 448 (2003 est)
- common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
- commutator group — the subgroup of a given group, which consists of all the commutators in the group.
- competitive edge — business: superiority
- 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.
- computer program — a set of instructions for a computer to perform some task
- constant mapping — (networking) A precursor to ARP used by some TCP software in which the destination Ethernet address is constructed from the top 24 bits of the source Ethernet address followed by the low 24 bits of the (class A) destination Internet address. For this scheme the top 24 bits of the Ethernet address must be the same on all hosts on the network.
- contact printing — the process of making contact prints.
- contingency plan — a plan to be carried out if a more likely or desired outcome does not happen
- coping mechanism — something a person does to deal with a difficult situation
- 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.
- corrugated paper — a packaging material made from layers of heavy paper, the top layer of which is grooved and ridged
- cottage hospital — a small rural hospital
- counterespionage — Counterespionage is the same as counterintelligence.
- crossopterygians — Plural form of crossopterygian.
- 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.
- cutting compound — a mixture, such as oil, water, and soap, used for cooling drills and other cutting tools
- 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.
- 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
- departure lounge — In an airport, the departure lounge is the place where passengers wait before they get onto their plane.
- depending on sth — You use depending on when you are saying that something varies according to the circumstances mentioned.
- dephlogisticated — Simple past tense and past participle of dephlogisticate.
- depression glass — cheap glassware mass-produced during the Depression of the 1930s, usually molded in patterns in pale colors, and collectible since the early 1970s
- depth psychology — the study of unconscious motives and attitudes
- developing world — Third World: poor countries
- diagonal process — a form of argument in which a new member of a set is constructed from a list of its known members by making the nth term of the new member differ from the nth term of the nth member. The new member is thus different from every member of the list
- diazoamino group — the divalent group –N=NNH–.
- digital computer — a computer that processes information in digital form.
- digital envelope — (cryptography)
- diphthongisation — The process by which a single vowel sound (monophthong) shifts to a two-vowel vocalization (diphthong).
- diphthongization — to change into or pronounce as a diphthong.
- discographically — In terms of discography.
- discussion group — group assembled to discuss sth
- disposable goods — consumer goods that are used up a short time after purchase, including perishables, newspapers, clothes, etc
- disproportioning — Present participle of disproportion.
- drinking problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
- drogue parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
- echocardiographs — Plural form of echocardiograph.