12-letter words containing a, g, r, n
- configurator — an item of software that enables or assists in the configuration of a product
- conflagrated — Simple past tense and past participle of conflagrate.
- conflagrator — (rare) One who starts a fire.
- congenerical — congeneric
- conglomerate — A conglomerate is a large business firm consisting of several different companies.
- congratulant — expressing congratulation
- congratulate — If you congratulate someone, you say something to show you are pleased that something nice has happened to them.
- congregating — Present participle of congregate.
- congregation — The people who are attending a church service or who regularly attend a church service are referred to as the congregation.
- congruential — (mathematics) That uses congruency (division by a modulus).
- consecrating — Present participle of consecrate.
- conservating — Present participle of conservate.
- consignatory — a cosignatory
- constraining — Present participle of constrain.
- contravening — to come or be in conflict with; go or act against; deny or oppose: to contravene a statement.
- conversating — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
- cook-general — (formerly, esp in the 1920s and '30s) a domestic servant who did cooking and housework
- cooling rack — a wire frame used for cooling food on
- coordinating — Present participle of coordinate.
- copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- coral fungus — any of a group of brightly colored fungi having erect, branching fruiting bodies that resemble coral.
- core drawing — drawing of fine tubing using wire as a mandrel.
- coronagraphs — Plural form of coronagraph.
- corrugations — the act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated.
- corruscating — Present participle of corruscate.
- cotton grass — any of various N temperate and arctic grasslike bog plants of the cyperaceous genus Eriophorum, whose clusters of long silky hairs resemble cotton tufts
- counteragent — a person or thing that counteracts
- counterargue — to argue against something
- counterimage — a corresponding image
- craniography — examination of the skull as depicted by craniographs, photographs, and charts.
- craniologist — the science that deals with the size, shape, and other characteristics of human skulls.
- crapehanging — the practice of hanging crape, esp as a sign of mourning
- crawling peg — a method of stabilizing exchange rates, prices, etc, by maintaining a fixed level for a specified period or until the level has persisted at an upper or lower limit for a specified period and then permitting a predetermined incremental rise or fall
- crazy paving — Crazy paving is pieces of stone of different shapes fitted together to make a path or flat area.
- crenellating — Present participle of crenellate.
- crepe-hanger — a person who sees the gloomy side of things; pessimist.
- crimson flag — a southern African plant, Schizostylis coccinea, of the iris family, having tubular red flowers.
- cross-dating — a method of dating objects, remains, etc, by comparison and correlation with other sites and levels
- cross-garnet — a hinge with a long horizontal strap fixed to the face of a door and a short vertical leaf fixed to the door frame
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossbarring — stripes, esp those of an animal
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- cryptogamian — of or relating to cryptogams
- crystalising — Present participle of crystalise.
- curtain ring — a wooden, plastic, or metal ring used to attach a curtain to a curtain pole
- cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- dancing frog — (programming, humour) A bug or glitch that only occurs for a particular user; never when the user tries to show it to anyone else. The term is derived from a Warner Brothers cartoon in which a man discovers a frog which can sing and dance; he believes this will make his fortune but the frog never performs in front of anyone else.
- dancing girl — a professional female dancer who dances to entertain customers at a club, theatre, etc
- danger angle — a horizontal or vertical angle, subtended by two points on shore, that provides a maximum or minimum angle between the points as observed from a vessel if it is to steer a safe course.