15-letter words containing l, g, u, c
- controlled drug — a drug whose sale is illegal except through prescribed medical channels
- copenhagen blue — a greyish-blue colour
- council housing — houses or flats built or owned by a local council
- counteractingly — In a way that counteracts.
- 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.
- counterplotting — Present participle of counterplot.
- courting couple — a pair of lovers
- crosslinguistic — relating to different languages
- 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.
- cultural cringe — the perception that one's own culture is inferior to that of another group or country
- culture jamming — a form of political and social activism which, by means of fake adverts, hoax news stories, pastiches of company logos and product labels, computer hacking, etc, draws attention to and at the same time subverts the power of the media, governments, and large corporations to control and distort the information that they give to the public in order to promote consumerism, militarism, etc
- cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
- cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
- deculturalizing — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
- disarticulating — Present participle of disarticulate.
- disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
- dishcloth gourd — loofah (def 1).
- dramaturgically — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
- drying-up cloth — a tea towel
- eclipse plumage — the dull plumage developed in some brightly colored birds after the breeding season.
- elections judge — someone who oversees an election
- electric guitar — electrically-amplified guitar
- electrosurgical — Relating to electrosurgery.
- elegiac couplet — a couplet composed of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter
- ethnolinguistic — Of or pertaining to ethnolinguistics.
- ethnomusicology — The study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
- extralinguistic — Outside the realm of linguistics.
- flange coupling — a driving coupling between rotating shafts that consists of flanges (or half couplings) one of which is fixed at the end of each shaft, the two flanges being bolted together with a ring of bolts to complete the drive
- flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
- fungistatically — in a fungistatic manner
- galactic nebula — a nebula in the Milky Way.
- galvanic couple — voltaic couple.
- gleichschaltung — the enforcement of standardization and the elimination of all opposition within the political, economic, and cultural institutions of a state
- gloucester city — a city in W New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
- gloucestershire — a county in SW England. 1255 sq. mi. (2640 sq. km). County seat: Gloucester.
- glucocorticoids — Plural form of glucocorticoid.
- gluconeogenesis — glucose formation in animals from a noncarbohydrate source, as from proteins or fats.
- gluconeogenetic — Of or pertaining to gluconeogenesis.
- glucuronic acid — Biochemistry. an acid, C 6 H 10 O 7 , formed by the oxidation of glucose, found combined with other products of metabolism in the blood and urine.
- glycuronic acid — glucuronic acid.
- graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
- graph colouring — (application) A constraint-satisfaction problem often used as a test case in research, which also turns out to be equivalent to certain real-world problems (e.g. register allocation). Given a connected graph and a fixed number of colours, the problem is to assign a colour to each node, subject to the constraint that any two connected nodes cannot be assigned the same colour. This is an example of an NP-complete problem. See also four colour map theorem.
- groutlock brick — a brick chamfered on its inner angles to allow space for vertical and horizontal reinforcing rods sealed in grout.
- guild socialism — a form of socialism developed in England in the 20th century, emphasizing decentralization of industry and services with control to be vested in autonomous guilds of workers.
- gulf of corinth — an inlet of the Ionian Sea between the Peloponnese and central Greece
- gulf of fonseca — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in W Central America