11-letter words containing a, p, g
- compassings — contrivances or schemes
- compilating — Present participle of compilate.
- complaining — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
- compurgator — one who testified in a compurgation
- cooperating — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
- coprolagnia — sexual arousal that is produced by the thought or sight of feces.
- coprophagan — a dung beetle
- coprophagia — feeding on dung, as certain beetles.
- coprophagic — involving the eating of excrement
- copycatting — a person or thing that copies, imitates, mimics, or follows the lead of another, as a child who says or does exactly the same as another child.
- coronagraph — an optical instrument used to simulate an eclipse of the sun so that the faint solar corona can be studied
- coronograph — an instrument for observing and photographing the sun's corona, consisting of a telescope fitted with lenses, filters, and diaphragms that simulate an eclipse.
- corporating — Present participle of corporate.
- cosmography — a representation of the world or the universe
- cottage pie — Cottage pie is a dish which consists of minced meat in gravy with mashed potato on top.
- cramponning — climbing using crampons
- craniograph — an instrument that outlines the skull.
- craniopagus — the condition of Siamese twins joined at the head
- crapehanger — a gloomy person; a pessimist
- creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
- crepehanger — a person who sees the gloomy side of things; pessimist.
- crepitating — Present participle of crepitate.
- crescograph — an instrument for measuring plant growth
- cryptogamic — Of, relating to, or denoting cryptogams.
- cryptograms — Plural form of cryptogram.
- cryptograph — something written in code or cipher
- culture gap — a divide between two social groups that have different cultures
- cyano group — the univalent group CN; cyanogen.
- cycloplegia — paralysis of the muscles that adjust the shape of the lens of the eye, resulting in loss of ability to focus
- cystography — radiography of the urinary bladder using a contrast medium
- cytophagous — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
- damping off — any of various diseases of plants, esp the collapse and death of seedlings caused by the parasitic fungus Pythium debaryanum and related fungi in conditions of excessive moisture
- damping-off — a disease of seedlings, occurring either before or immediately after emerging from the soil, characterized by rotting of the stem at soil level and eventual collapse of the plant, caused by any of several soil fungi.
- dapple-gray — gray spotted with darker gray
- dapple-grey — a horse with a grey coat having spots of darker colour
- deadpanning — Present participle of deadpan.
- demographer — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
- demographic — Demographic means relating to or concerning demography.
- depasturing — Present participle of depasture.
- dephlegmate — to remove watery substances from (acids or spirits) in order to purify
- depravingly — in a depraving manner
- deprecating — A deprecating attitude, gesture, or remark shows that you think that something is not very good, especially something associated with yourself.
- deprogramme — to free (someone) from the effects of indoctrination, esp by a religious cult or political group
- depth gauge — a device attached to a drill bit to prevent the hole from exceeding a predetermined depth
- dermography — a type of marking on the skin, whether in the form of writing or pictures, supposedly of psychic origin, similar to stigmata except for being more short-lived
- desparingly — In a despairing manner.
- despatching — Present participle of despatch.
- diaphragmic — Which uses, or which is located in or near, the diaphragm.
- diazo group — the bivalent group –N=N– united with one hydrocarbon group and another atom or group, as in benzenediazo hydroxide, C 6 H 5 N=NOH, or the bivalent group =N=N united with one hydrocarbon group, as in diazomethane, CH 2 =N=N.
- digger wasp — any of numerous solitary wasps of the family Sphecidae, which excavate nests in soil, wood, etc., and provision them with prey paralyzed by stinging.