13-letter words containing a, l, g, i
- clearing-line — either of a pair of landmarks or marks on a mariner's chart lying upon a line (clearing line) along which a vessel can sail to avoid navigational hazards.
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
- cliff-hanging — of, relating to, or characteristic of a cliff-hanger: a cliff-hanging vote of 20–19.
- climatography — an account of a region's climate
- climatologist — A climatologist is someone who studies climates.
- climbing wall — a specially constructed wall with recessed and projecting holds to give practice in rock climbing; a feature of many sports centres
- clinodiagonal — the diagonal axis of a monoclinic crystal
- close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
- coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
- coagulability — The ability to coagulate, of being coagulable.
- coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
- coat-trailing — provocative or contentious writing, speech, behavior, etc.
- cohomological — of or relating to cohomology
- collaborating — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
- colleagueship — workplace companionship
- college radio — radio broadcasting from stations affiliated with a college or university, often at a frequency below 92 MHz FM.
- collieshangie — a quarrel
- colligational — Relating to colligation.
- communalizing — Present participle of communalize.
- complainingly — In a complaining manner; peevishly.
- conchological — Of or pertaining to conchology.
- confabulating — Present participle of confabulate.
- conflagration — A conflagration is a fire that burns over a large area and destroys property.
- conflagrative — That produces conflagration.
- congenialness — The state or quality of being congenial.
- conglomeratic — of or relating to a conglomerate
- conglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglutinate.
- conglutinator — an agent that conglutinates
- congressional — A congressional policy, action, or person relates to the United States Congress.
- conjugational — Of or pertaining to conjugation.
- consanguineal — having the same ancestry or descent; related by blood.
- consolidating — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- contemplating — to think studiously; meditate; consider deliberately.
- contrastingly — to compare in order to show unlikeness or differences; note the opposite natures, purposes, etc., of: Contrast the political rights of Romans and Greeks.
- cooling board — a plank for laying out a corpse.
- copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
- coral springs — city in SE Fla.: pop. 118,000
- coralligenous — producing coral
- core handling — Core handling is the way that a core is dealt with to make sure it maintains its properties for testing.
- corn marigold — an annual plant, Chrysanthemum segetum, with yellow daisy-like flower heads: a common weed of cultivated land: family Asteraceae (composites)
- cottage tulip — a late-flowering type of tulip, usually having pointed or elongated flowers.
- crash landing — aircraft: emergency descent
- credentialing — Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form: Only those with the proper credentials are admitted.
- criminalising — Present participle of criminalise.
- criminalizing — Present participle of criminalize.
- cryogenically — in a cryogenic manner
- cryptological — cryptography.
- crystallizing — Present participle of crystallize.
- cupping glass — a glass vessel from which air can be removed by suction or heat to create a partial vacuum: formerly used in drawing blood to the surface of the skin for slow bloodletting