16-letter words containing a, c, r, o, g
- 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
- channel crossing — a crossing of the English Channel
- 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.
- 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
- chipping sparrow — a common North American sparrow, Spizella passerina, having brown-and-grey plumage and a white eye stripe
- 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.
- cholangiographic — Relating to cholangiography.
- 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
- chronic glaucoma — Ophthalmology. abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye, most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains (open-angle glaucoma or chronic glaucoma) or by pressure of the iris against the lens, which traps the aqueous humor (angle-closure glaucoma or acute glaucoma)
- 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.
- circumnavigation — to sail or fly around; make the circuit of by navigation: to circumnavigate the earth.
- circumnavigatory — Pertaining to circumnavigation.
- citronella grass — a tropical Asian grass, Cymbopogon (or Andropogon) nardus, with bluish-green lemon-scented leaves
- class background — a person's background with reference to social class
- cleaning product — a detergent or other household cleaner
- 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
- colorado springs — a city and resort in central Colorado. Pop: 370 448 (2003 est)
- combination drug — a medication comprised of set dosages of two or more separate drugs.
- 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 logarithm — a logarithm to the base ten. Usually written log or log10
- 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
- commutator group — the subgroup of a given group, which consists of all the commutators in the group.
- computer program — a set of instructions for a computer to perform some task
- configurationism — Gestalt psychology
- 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.
- contact printing — the process of making contact prints.
- container garden — a collection of pots or other receptacles containing soil for growing plants out of doors
- contract killing — a murder carried out in fulfilment of a contract
- contraindicating — Present participle of contraindicate.
- 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
- 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