10-letter words containing a, g, r, n
- coarsening — Present participle of coarsen.
- coathanger — Alternative spelling of coat hanger.
- cogenerate — To generate two forms of energy simultaneously.
- conga drum — a large tubular bass drum, used chiefly in Latin American and funk music and played with the hands
- congregant — Congregants are members of a congregation.
- congregate — When people congregate, they gather together and form a group.
- corigliano — John Paul, born 1938, U.S. composer.
- corn sugar — a dextrose made from cornstarch
- coronating — having or wearing a crown, coronet, or the like.
- corralling — an enclosure or pen for horses, cattle, etc.
- corrigenda — Plural form of corrigendum.
- costarring — Present participle of costar.
- cracklings — Plural form of crackling.
- cradlesong — a lullaby
- cragginess — The state of being craggy.
- craniology — the branch of science concerned with the shape and size of the human skull, esp with reference to variations between different races
- crashingly — extremely; exceedingly
- creakingly — With a creaking sound.
- crevassing — Present participle of crevasse.
- cro magnon — an Upper Paleolithic population of humans, regarded as the prototype of modern Homo sapiens in Europe. Skeletal remains found in an Aurignacian cave in southern France indicate that the Cro-Magnon had long heads, broad faces, and sunken eyes, and reached a height of approximately 5 feet 9 inches (175 cm).
- cro-magnon — belonging to a prehistoric, Caucasoid type of human who lived on the European continent, distinguished by tallness and erect stature, and by the use of stone and bone implements, principally of Aurignacian culture
- crown gall — a disease of peaches, apples, roses, grapes, etc., characterized by the formation of galls on the roots or stems usually at or below ground level, caused by a bacterium, Agrobacterium tumefaciens.
- cruciating — Present participle of cruciate.
- currawongs — Plural form of currawong.
- curtailing — Present participle of curtail.
- curtaining — Present participle of curtain.
- daguerrean — relating to Daguerre or the daguerreotype
- danger man — a person, esp a member of a sports team, who is likely to inflict damage on opponents
- dangerless — Without danger.
- daringness — The state or quality of being daring.
- darjeeling — a town in NE India, in West Bengal in the Himalayas, at an altitude of about 2250 m (7500 ft). Pop: 107 530 (2001)
- darlington — an industrial town in NE England in Darlington unitary authority, S Durham: developed mainly with the opening of the Stockton-Darlington railway (1825). Pop: 86 082 (2001)
- dating bar — singles bar.
- decorating — the painting or wallpapering of a room, house, etc
- decreasing — becoming less or fewer; diminishing.
- defragging — Present participle of defrag.
- defragment — to reorganize files on (a disk) so that the parts of each file are stored in contiguous sectors on the disk, thereby improving computer performance and maximizing disk space.
- defrauding — Present participle of defraud.
- degeneracy — If you refer to the behaviour of a group of people as degeneracy, you mean that you think it is shocking, immoral, or disgusting.
- degenerate — If you say that someone or something degenerates, you mean that they become worse in some way, for example weaker, lower in quality, or more dangerous.
- delayering — Delayering is the process of simplifying the administrative structure of a large organization in order to make it more efficient.
- denaturing — Present participle of denature.
- dendrogram — any branching diagram, such as a cladogram, showing the interconnections between treelike organisms
- denigrated — Simple past tense and past participle of denigrate.
- denigrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denigrate.
- denigrator — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- depurating — Present participle of depurate.
- dermatogen — a meristem at the apex of stems and roots that gives rise to the epidermis
- derogating — Present participle of derogate.
- derogation — a lessening or weakening (of power, authority, position, etc.)