11-letter words containing c, a, l, g, r
- cattle grid — A cattle grid is a set of metal bars in the surface of a road which prevents cattle and sheep from walking along the road, but allows people and vehicles to pass.
- cattle grub — the larva or adult of a warble fly, especially Hypoderma lineatum, a common pest of cattle in North America.
- cavaliering — a horseman, especially a mounted soldier; knight.
- celebrating — Present participle of celebrate.
- centrifugal — acting, moving, or tending to move away from a centre
- cephalogram — An X-ray of the craniofacial area.
- cervicalgia — Neck pain.
- challengers — Plural form of challenger.
- chandlering — the work of a chandler
- chargrilled — Simple past tense and past participle of chargrill.
- charlemagne — ?742–814 ad, king of the Franks (768–814) and, as Charles I, Holy Roman Emperor (800–814). He conquered the Lombards (774), the Saxons (772–804), and the Avars (791–799). He instituted many judicial and ecclesiastical reforms, and promoted commerce and agriculture throughout his empire, which extended from the Ebro to the Elbe. Under Alcuin his court at Aachen became the centre of a revival of learning
- chaulmoogra — a tropical Asian tree, Taraktogenos (or Hydnocarpus) kurzii: family Flacourtiaceae
- chirurgical — relating to, carrying out or expert in surgery
- circulating — Moving about freely.
- clamdiggers — Close-fitting women’s casual pants hemmed at mid-calf.
- clark gable — (William) Clark, 1901–60, U.S. film actor.
- clavigerous — bearing a key or club
- clergywoman — a female member of the clergy
- cliffhanger — A cliffhanger is a situation or part of a play or film that is very exciting or frightening because you are left for a long time not knowing what will happen next.
- cloud grass — a grass, Agrostis nebulosa, of Spain, having clusters of tiny spikelets on slender stalks, used in bouquets.
- cog railway — a railway for a very steep grade with traction supplied by a central cogged rail that meshes with a cogwheel on the engine
- collagraphy — A printmaking process in which materials are applied to a rigid substrate (such as cardboard or wood).
- cologarithm — the logarithm of the reciprocal of a number; the negative value of the logarithm
- color guard — the persons carrying and escorting the colors (flag) in a parade, ceremony, etc.
- conflagrant — burning fiercely
- conflagrate — to catch or set on fire
- coprolagnia — sexual arousal that is produced by the thought or sight of feces.
- cor anglais — a woodwind instrument, the alto of the oboe family. It is a transposing instrument in F. Range: two and a half octaves upwards from E on the third space of the bass staff
- corner flag — a flag placed on a short pole marking a corner of a football pitch
- correlating — to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.
- cover glass — a thin square of mounted glass used to protect a photographic slide
- cracklingly — With a crackling sound.
- crown glass — an old form of window glass made by blowing a globe and spinning it until it formed a flat disc
- crystallog. — crystallography
- culture gap — a divide between two social groups that have different cultures
- dactylogram — a fingerprint
- disgraceful — bringing or deserving disgrace; shameful; dishonorable; disreputable.
- electrogram — a record of an organ's electrical activity, measured by monitoring changes in electric potential
- embracingly — In an embracing manner.
- energetical — Energetic; of or relating to energy.
- fiscal drag — the process by which, during inflation, rising incomes draw people into higher tax brackets, so that their real incomes may fall; this acts as a restraint on the expansion of the economy
- flat racing — a race run on a level track having no hurdles, water jumps, hedges, or the like to hinder the speed of the entrants.
- freelancing — Present participle of freelance.
- galli-curci — Amelita [ah-me-lee-tah] /ˌɑ mɛˈli tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1889–1964, Italian soprano in the U.S.
- garlic salt — salt flavoured with ground garlic
- gastrocolic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and colon.
- generically — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
- geometrical — of or relating to geometry or to the principles of geometry.
- gerlachovka — a mountain in N Slovakia: highest peak of the Carpathian Mountains. 8737 feet (2663 meters).
- glabrescent — becoming glabrous.