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13-letter words containing a, n, o, r, g

  • brigham young — Andrew (Jackson, Jr.) born 1932, U.S. clergyman, civil-rights leader, politician, and diplomat: mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, 1981–89.
  • bring forward — If you bring forward a meeting or event, you arrange for it to take place at an earlier date or time than had been planned.
  • bring to bear — to bring into operation or effect
  • bring to pass — to cause to happen
  • bronchography — radiography of the bronchial tubes after the introduction of a radiopaque medium into the bronchi
  • brown bagging — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
  • brown-bagging — the practice of eating one's lunch or drinking a bottle of alcohol from a brown bag
  • burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
  • canon regular — a clergyman of certain religious communities following a monastic rule
  • canton ginger — preserved or crystallized ginger of fine quality.
  • carbo-loading — Informal. carbohydrate loading.
  • carbon dating — Carbon dating is a system of calculating the age of a very old object by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon it contains.
  • carcinologist — a person who specializes in carcinology
  • card clothing — a very sturdy fabric with a leather or rubber fillet imbedded with wire teeth for disentangling and cleaning textile fibers, used to cover the rollers or flats of a carding machine.
  • cariogenicity — conducive to the production or promotion of dental caries: the cariogenic factors in sweets.
  • carnot engine — an engine using a Carnot cycle of operations.
  • cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
  • cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
  • chamber organ — a small compact organ used esp for the authentic performance of preclassical music
  • chandernagore — a port in E India, in S West Bengal on the Hooghly River: a former French settlement (1686–1950). Pop: 162 166 (2001)
  • changing room — A changing room is a room where you can change your clothes and usually have a shower, for example at a sports centre.
  • charing cross — a district of London, in the city of Westminster: the modern cross (1863) in front of Charing Cross railway station replaces the one erected by Edward I (1290), the last of twelve marking the route of the funeral procession of his queen, Eleanor
  • chart-topping — very popular; coming top in the charts
  • cholangiogram — an X-ray of the bile duct performed after administering dye into the ducts that shows up on the X-ray
  • chronographic — a timepiece fitted with a recording device, as a stylus and rotating drum, used to mark the exact instant of an occurrence, especially in astronomy.
  • chronological — If things are described or shown in chronological order, they are described or shown in the order in which they happened.
  • cinema goers' — filmgoer.
  • cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
  • clear-coating — an automotive painting technique in which a coating of clear lacquer or other synthetic liquid is applied over the base color to enhance the shine and durability of the paint.
  • clearing loan — a bank loan to finance the purchase of securities which is repayable within the calendar day on which it is made.
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
  • coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
  • coat-trailing — provocative or contentious writing, speech, behavior, etc.
  • cocarcinogens — Plural form of cocarcinogen.
  • cointegration — (mathematics) The condition of two non-stationary time series whose linear combination is stationary.
  • collaborating — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
  • commandeering — Present participle of commandeer.
  • commemorating — Present participle of commemorate.
  • commiserating — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
  • company grade — military rank applying to army officers below major, as second and first lieutenants and captains.
  • concentrating — Present participle of concentrate.
  • concert grand — a full-size grand piano, usually around 7 feet in length
  • concertinaing — Present participle of concertina.
  • concord grape — a variety of grape with purple-black fruit covered with a bluish bloom
  • confederating — Present participle of confederate.
  • configurating — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
  • 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.
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