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15-letter words containing g

  • counter-sinking — to enlarge the upper part of (a cavity), especially by chamfering, to receive the cone-shaped head of a screw, bolt, etc.
  • counteractingly — In a way that counteracts.
  • counterargument — A counterargument is an argument that makes an opposing point to another argument.
  • countercampaign — a campaign responding to another campaign
  • countercharging — Present participle of countercharge.
  • countercharming — Present participle of countercharm.
  • counterchecking — Present participle of countercheck.
  • counterclaiming — Present participle of counterclaim.
  • counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
  • countermarching — Present participle of countermarch.
  • counterplotting — Present participle of counterplot.
  • counterpointing — Present participle of counterpoint.
  • counterpunching — Present participle of counterpunch.
  • counterrotating — (of two corresponding or similar moving parts) rotating in opposite directions: counterrotating propellers.
  • counterstrategy — a strategy designed to counter the effectiveness of another strategy or action
  • counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
  • counting number — natural number
  • country cottage — a small house in the country, esp one used for holidays
  • country dancing — Country dancing is traditional dancing in which people dance in rows or circles.
  • courting couple — a pair of lovers
  • courting mirror — a small mirror of c1800 having a border and cresting of glass painted with leaves and flowers in imitation of a Chinese style.
  • covering letter — A covering letter is a letter that you send with a parcel or with another letter in order to provide extra information.
  • cowper's glands — two small yellowish glands near the prostate that secrete a mucous substance into the urethra during sexual stimulation in males
  • cracked gas oil — Cracked gas oil is a gas oil which is formed as one of the products of a gas reaction.
  • cradle-to-grave — extending throughout one's life, from birth to death: a cradle-to-grave system of health care.
  • cranberry glass — reddish-pink transparent glassware first made in England and the U.S. in the mid-19th century.
  • cranberry gourd — a South American vine, Abobra tenuifolia, of the gourd family, having deeply lobed, ovate leaves and bearing a berrylike scarlet fruit.
  • crash programme — a short intensive programme to learn a skill, language, etc
  • crawling horror — (jargon)   Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site. Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity. "Mostly we code new stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror." Compare WOMBAT.
  • credibility gap — A credibility gap is the difference between what a person says or promises and what they actually think or do.
  • credit standing — reputation for discharging financial obligations
  • creeping fescue — red fescue.
  • creeping jennie — moneywort.
  • creeping myrtle — any of several Eurasian apocynaceous evergreen plants of the genus Vinca, such as V. minor (lesser periwinkle) and V. major (greater periwinkle), having trailing stems and blue flowers
  • cricopharyngeal — of, relating to, or involving the cricoid cartilage and the pharynx.
  • cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
  • criminal damage — intentionally damaging property that belongs to someone else, including public property
  • crisis theology — a neoorthodox theology, advocated by Karl Barth and others, emphasizing the absolute necessity of faith and divine revelation in transcending the personal crisis, common to all humankind, that arises from the contradictions inherent in human nature and in the social order.
  • critical region — that part of a statistical distribution in which the probability of a given hypothesis is less than the chosen significance level, so that the hypothesis would be rejected
  • croix de guerre — a French military decoration awarded for gallantry in battle: established 1915
  • crossing patrol — a person who holds up the traffic so that school children can cross the road safely
  • crosslinguistic — relating to different languages
  • crossopterygian — any bony fish of the subclass Crossopterygii, having fleshy limblike pectoral fins. The group, now mostly extinct, contains the ancestors of the amphibians
  • cruising radius — the greatest distance that an aircraft or ship can cruise, away from and back to a certain point without refueling
  • crunchy granola — crisp; brittle.
  • crunchy-granola — characterized by or defining oneself by ecological awareness, liberal political views, and support or use of natural products and health foods.
  • crustaceologist — One who studies crustaceology.
  • cryptographical — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
  • cryptozoologist — an expert in cryptozoology
  • crystal healing — (in alternative therapy) the use of the supposed power of crystals to affect the human energy field
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