10-letter words containing c, a, g, n
- angioscope — An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants.
- anglecized — Misspelling of anglicized.
- anglicised — Made into a form similar to that used by the English.
- anglicized — having become or been made English in outlook, attitude, form, etc
- anglicizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of anglicize.
- anglistics — the study of English language and literature
- angora cat — a long-haired variety of cat, originating in Britain from crosses between Abyssinian and Siamese breeds in the 1960s
- announcing — Present participle of announce.
- anschauung — direct or immediate intuition or perception of sense data with little or no rational interpretation.
- anteceding — to go before, in time, order, rank, etc.; precede: Shakespeare antecedes Milton.
- anticaking — denoting an agent used to prevent substances from going hard or forming lumps
- antichange — Opposing change.
- antiracing — Opposing racing.
- anxiogenic — Causing anxiety, or pertaining to the causing of anxiety.
- aragonitic — relating to aragonite
- archangels — Plural form of archangel.
- archegonia — the female reproductive organ in ferns, mosses, etc.
- arciniegas — Germán [her-mahn] /hɛrˈmɑn/ (Show IPA), 1900–1999, Colombian author, editor, and diplomat.
- arctangent — the function the value of which for a given argument is the angle in radians (between –π/2 and π/2) the tangent of which is that argument: the inverse of the tangent function
- arctogaean — of or relating to Arctogaea
- ascogenous — of, relating to, or producing asci.
- ascogonium — a female reproductive body in some ascomycetous fungi in which, after fertilization, the asci develop
- asskicking — to kick ass. See kick (def 33).
- astricting — Present participle of astrict.
- attracting — Present participle of attract.
- auctioning — Present participle of auction.
- audiogenic — caused or produced by sound or an audio frequency
- authigenic — (of minerals) having crystallized in a sediment during or after deposition
- avengeance — (obsolete) vengeance.
- back green — grass or a garden at the back of a house, esp a tenement
- back slang — a type of slang in which words are spelled and, as far as possible, pronounced backwards
- backbiting — If you accuse someone of backbiting, you mean that they say unpleasant or unkind things about someone who is not present, especially in order to stop them doing well at work.
- backdating — Present participle of backdate.
- backfiring — Present participle of backfire.
- backgammon — Backgammon is a game for two people, played on a board marked with long triangles. Each player has 15 wooden or plastic discs. The players throw dice and move the discs around the board.
- background — Your background is the kind of family you come from and the kind of education you have had. It can also refer to such things as your social and racial origins, your financial status, or the type of work experience that you have.
- backswings — Plural form of backswing.
- balenciaga — Cristobal (krisˈtoβal). 1895–1972, Spanish couturier
- barbecuing — Present participle of barbecue.
- barracking — Present participle of barrack.
- benignancy — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
- big casino — (in the game of casino) the ten of diamonds.
- bingo card — a prepaid postcard inserted in a magazine by its publisher to enable a reader to order free information about advertised products.
- bioorganic — pertaining to the composition and biological activity of carbon-based compounds, especially those of laboratory rather than biogenic origin (contrasted with bioinorganic).
- black gang — the crew working in a stokehold of a ship.
- black gnat — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- black lung — pneumoconiosis of coal miners, caused by coal dust; anthracosis.
- black ring — a disease of grasses, characterized by black rings surrounding the stems and blighted seeds, caused by a fungus, Balansia strangulans.
- blancmange — Blancmange is a cold dessert that is made from milk, sugar, cornflour or corn starch, and flavouring, and looks rather like jelly.
- bracketing — a set of brackets