16-letter words containing a, c, r, e, g
- captive breeding — Captive breeding is the breeding of wild animals in places such as zoos, especially animals which have become rare in the wild.
- careers guidance — advice and information about careers that helps individuals, esp young people, decide on a career and also teaches them how to pursue their chosen career
- caregiver speech — baby talk (def 2).
- careless driving — the offence of driving without due care
- carnal knowledge — Chiefly Law. sexual intercourse.
- carpenter gothic — (sometimes initial capital letters) a style of Victorian Gothic architecture adapted to the resources of contemporary woodworking tools and machinery.
- carry-on luggage — luggage that is taken inside an aircraft by hand personally by a passenger
- cartridge player — an audio or video system that reads cartridges of magnetic tape
- casting director — the person in charge of choosing of actors for a production
- cataractogenesis — The formation of a cataract.
- category listing — A category listing is a list of different product categories such as menswear, womenswear, and childrenswear.
- category mistake — a sentence that says of something in one category what can only intelligibly be said of something in another, as when speaking of the mind located in space
- category planner — A category planner is a person whose job to plan and co-ordinate future inventory and sales volume in one or more product categories.
- catering college — a further education college where you learn to cook as a profession
- catering manager — the person in charge of the catering in a place or at an event
- centrifugal pump — a pump having a high-speed rotating impeller whose blades throw the water outwards
- channel crossing — a crossing of the English Channel
- character string — a series of characters that can be manipulated as a group, but do not necessarily represent anything
- charge to a room — If you charge an item or expense to a room at a hotel, you add it to a guest's final bill so they can pay for it when they check out of the room.
- chargeable asset — any asset that can give rise to assessment for capital gains tax on its disposal. Exempt assets include principal private residences, cars, investments held in a personal equity plan, and government securities
- charged particle — an atomic particle with a positive or negative charge, as an electron, proton, or helium ion
- charles coughlin — Charles Edward ("Father Coughlin") 1891–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic priest, activist, radio broadcaster, and editor, born in Canada.
- chase the dragon — to smoke opium or heroin
- chattel mortgage — a mortgage on movable personal property
- chattering class — well-educated members of the upper-middle or upper class who freely express especially liberal opinions or judgments on current issues and events.
- chlorogenic acid — a colorless crystalline acid, C 16 H 18 O 9 , that is important in plant metabolism and is purportedly responsible for the browning or blackening of cut apples, potatoes, and other fruits and vegetables.
- cholecystography — radiography of the gall bladder after administration of a contrast medium
- chromatographies — Plural form of chromatography.
- cigarette beetle — a small cylindrical beetle, Lasioderma serricorne, that is a pest, especially of dried tobacco.
- cigarette holder — A cigarette holder is a narrow tube that you can put a cigarette into in order to hold it while you smoke it.
- citronella grass — a tropical Asian grass, Cymbopogon (or Andropogon) nardus, with bluish-green lemon-scented leaves
- clarke's gazelle — dibatag.
- cleaning product — a detergent or other household cleaner
- clearsightedness — The property of being clearsighted.
- cloak-and-dagger — A cloak-and-dagger activity is one which involves mystery and secrecy.
- closing argument — In a court case, a lawyer's closing argument is their final speech, in which they give a summary of their case.
- coleridge-taylor — Samuel. 1875–1912, British composer, best known for his trilogy of oratorios Song of Hiawatha (1898–1900)
- college graduate — a student who has recently graduated from college
- come/bring alive — If a story or description comes alive, it becomes interesting, lively, or realistic. If someone or something brings it alive, they make it seem more interesting, lively, or realistic.
- common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
- common-or-garden — You can use common-or-garden to describe something you think is ordinary and not special in any way.
- community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
- computer program — a set of instructions for a computer to perform some task
- congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
- congo free state — a former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- congressionalist — of or relating to a congress.
- considering that — You use considering that to indicate that you are thinking about a particular fact when making a judgment or giving an opinion.
- container garden — a collection of pots or other receptacles containing soil for growing plants out of doors
- control language — (language) (CL) The batch language for IBM RPG/38, used in conjunction with RPG III. See also OCL.
- corona discharge — an electrical discharge appearing on and around the surface of a charged conductor, caused by ionization of the surrounding gas