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14-letter words containing c, a, g, l

  • cleaning fluid — a solvent or other solution for removing stains or cleaning particular objects
  • cleaning woman — A cleaning woman is the same as a cleaning lady.
  • clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
  • clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
  • climate change — change occurring in the Earth's overall climate and in particular climates, now regarded as a result of human activity and resulting generally in global warming
  • climatological — the science that deals with the phenomena of climates or climatic conditions.
  • climatologists — Plural form of climatologist.
  • climbing frame — A climbing frame is a structure that has been made for children to climb and play on. It consists of metal or wooden bars joined together.
  • clingmans dome — mountain on the Tenn.-N.C. border; highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains: 6,642 ft (2,024 m)
  • clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
  • cloister garth — garth (def 1).
  • closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
  • clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
  • clouded magpie — a geometrid moth, Abraxas sylvata, that is paler than the magpie moth
  • coaching glass — a small drinking glass of the early 19th century having no foot.
  • cocktail glass — a glass for serving cocktails, typically bell-shaped and having a foot and a stem.
  • coelanaglyphic — (of pottery) decorated with sunken relief
  • cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
  • colombian gold — a potent marijuana grown in South America.
  • colonial goose — an old-fashioned name for stuffed roast mutton
  • color sergeant — a sergeant who has charge of battalion or regimental colors.
  • common grackle — a large songbird, Quiscalus quiscula, of the family Icteridae, of central and eastern North America, having iridescent black plumage varying in color.
  • complete graph — A graph which has a link between every pair of nodes. A complete bipartite graph can be partitioned into two subsets of nodes such that each node is joined to every node in the other subset.
  • conciliatingly — So as to conciliate.
  • configuraholic — (jargon)   A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
  • conflagrations — Plural form of conflagration.
  • conglobulation — the act of conglobing
  • conglomerateur — a person who forms or leads a business conglomerate
  • conglomerating — Present participle of conglomerate.
  • conglomeration — A conglomeration of things is a group of many different things, gathered together.
  • conglomerative — of, relating to, or resembling a conglomerate
  • conglutinating — Present participle of conglutinate.
  • conglutination — glued together; adhering.
  • congratulating — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
  • congratulation — the act of congratulating
  • congratulatory — A congratulatory message expresses congratulations.
  • congregational — of or relating to a congregation
  • consul general — a consul of the highest grade, usually stationed in a city of considerable commercial importance
  • consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
  • contact flight — a flight in which the pilot remains in sight of land or water
  • contact flying — flying an airplane in conditions of good visibility so that the course and altitude can be determined by observing points or objects on the ground; VFR
  • cornucopia leg — a leg used on pieces in the Directoire and Empire styles, curving downward from the piece and curving upward again to a point and having a foot or caster at the lowest part of the curve.
  • cosmetological — the art or profession of applying cosmetics.
  • cosmogonically — In a cosmogonic manner.
  • cosmographical — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
  • cosmologically — In a cosmological way.
  • countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
  • cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
  • credentialling — the practice of analysing the credentials of an individual or organization
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