13-letter words containing a, n, g, i
- configuration — A configuration is an arrangement of a group of things.
- configurative — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
- conflagration — A conflagration is a fire that burns over a large area and destroys property.
- conflagrative — That produces conflagration.
- congeneration — Simultaneous generation (as of heat and light from the same action).
- 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
- congregations — Plural form of congregation.
- 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.
- consanguinity — relationship by blood; kinship
- consolidating — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- consternating — Present participle of consternate.
- contaminating — Present participle of contaminate.
- contemplating — to think studiously; meditate; consider deliberately.
- contracepting — to prevent the conception of (offspring).
- contradicting — Present participle of contradict.
- contragestion — a form of contraception that can be used after fertilization of the ovum, preventing gestation
- contragestive — able to prevent gestation
- contragravity — (scifi) antigravity.
- 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.
- copy negative — master (def 21).
- 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)
- coronagraphic — Of, pertaining to, or employing a coronagraph.
- corroborating — Present participle of corroborate.
- cosignatories — Plural form of cosignatory.
- cottage piano — a small upright piano
- cough and die — (jargon) barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.
- count against — If something counts against you, it may cause you to be rejected or punished, or cause people to have a lower opinion of you.
- countenancing — appearance, especially the look or expression of the face: a sad countenance.
- counter image — the point or set of points in the domain of a function corresponding to a given point or set of points in the range of the function.
- counteracting — Present participle of counteract.
- court hearing — an official meeting held in court
- court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
- cousin-german — the child of one's aunt or uncle
- 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.
- credit agency — an agency that checks whether people are able to pay for goods and services they wish to buy on credit, and provides them with a credit rating
- credit rating — Your credit rating is a judgment of how likely you are to pay money back if you borrow it or buy things on credit.
- creep-grazing — a method of pasture management that allows young farm animals (esp lambs) to graze part of the pasture before the adults in the group
- criminalising — Present participle of criminalise.
- criminalizing — Present participle of criminalize.
- cringe-making — causing feelings of acute embarrassment or distaste