12-letter words containing a, s, t, r, g
- blues guitar — blues guitar music
- bog-standard — If you describe something as bog-standard you mean that is an ordinary example of its kind, with no exciting or interesting features.
- bottom grass — any grass that grows on bottoms or lowlands.
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
- broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
- canting arms — a coat of arms making visual reference to the surname of its owner
- cardiologist — A cardiologist is a doctor who specializes in the heart and its diseases.
- carpet grass — either of two grasses, Axonopus affinis or A. compressus, native to tropical and subtropical America.
- caster angle — the forward or backward tilt of the steering axis in a vehicle, when considered from the side
- caster sugar — Caster sugar is white sugar that has been ground into fine grains. It is used in cooking.
- castor sugar — finely ground or powdered sugar.
- categorising — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- caught short — having a sudden need to urinate or defecate
- center stage — If something or someone takes center stage, they become very important or noticeable.
- centimorgans — Plural form of centimorgan.
- centralising — Present participle of centralise.
- centre stage — If something or someone takes centre stage, they become very important or noticeable.
- charge sheet — a document on which a police officer enters details of the charge against a prisoner and the court in which he will appear
- chhattisgarh — a state of E central India, created from the SE part of Madhya Pradesh in 2000: consists of a hilly plateau, with extensive forests; agricultural. Capital: Raipur. Pop: 20 795 956 (2001). Area: 135 194 sq km (52 199 sq miles)
- clearsighted — seeing clearly
- coast ranges — series of mountain ranges along the W coast of North America, extending from Alas. to Baja California: highest peak, Mt. Logan
- cogenerators — Plural form of cogenerator.
- cold storage — If something such as food is put in cold storage, it is kept in an artificially-cooled place in order to preserve it.
- consecrating — Present participle of consecrate.
- conservating — Present participle of conservate.
- consignatory — a cosignatory
- constraining — Present participle of constrain.
- conversating — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
- coprophagist — a person who eats excrement
- core storage — a kind of computer memory consisting of storage units made of ferromagnetic rings
- 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
- craniologist — the science that deals with the size, shape, and other characteristics of human skulls.
- crazy eights — a card game played by two or more persons with a 52-card deck, the object of which is to be the first to get rid of one's hand by successively playing a card of the same suit or denomination as that played by the preceding player, with an eight counting for any desired suit.
- 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
- cryptogamist — a botanist specializing in the study of cryptogams
- cryptogamous — Of or pertaining to the cryptogams.
- crystalising — Present participle of crystalise.
- curate's egg — something that has both good and bad parts
- cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- dastardizing — Present participle of dastardize.
- daughterless — Without a daughter.
- dead storage — the storage of furniture, files, or other unused or seldom used items in a warehouse or other location for an indefinite period of time.
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- degradations — Plural form of degradation.
- denigrations — Plural form of denigration.
- desegregated — Simple past tense and past participle of desegregate.