12-letter words containing c, a, p, g
- cigar-shaped — resembling a cigar in shape
- cip language — language> (CIP-L, Computer-aided Intuition-guided Programming Language) A wide-spectrum language for incremental program transformation. There are ALGOL- and Pascal-like variants.
- circle graph — pie chart.
- clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
- co-parenting — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
- college park — a city in N Georgia.
- cometography — the scientific description and recording of comets
- compensating — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- complainings — complaints
- complicating — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
- compurgation — (formerly) a method of trial whereby a defendant might be acquitted if a sufficient number of persons swore to his innocence
- computer age — modern society regarded as the period when the widespread use of computers has fundamentally changed people's lives
- constipating — to cause constipation in; make costive.
- coprophagist — a person who eats excrement
- coprophagous — (esp of certain beetles) feeding on dung
- copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- coronagraphs — Plural form of coronagraph.
- cosmographer — (astrophysics) A scientist specializing in understanding and describing the nature of the universe.
- cosmographic — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
- craniography — examination of the skull as depicted by craniographs, photographs, and charts.
- crapehanging — the practice of hanging crape, esp as a sign of mourning
- crawling peg — a method of stabilizing exchange rates, prices, etc, by maintaining a fixed level for a specified period or until the level has persisted at an upper or lower limit for a specified period and then permitting a predetermined incremental rise or fall
- crazy paving — Crazy paving is pieces of stone of different shapes fitted together to make a path or flat area.
- crepe-hanger — a person who sees the gloomy side of things; pessimist.
- criptography — (spelling) It's spelled "cryptography".
- cryptogamian — of or relating to cryptogams
- cryptogamist — a botanist specializing in the study of cryptogams
- cryptogamous — Of or pertaining to the cryptogams.
- cryptography — the science or study of analysing and deciphering codes, ciphers, etc; cryptanalysis
- cyclographic — of or relating to a cyclograph
- dancing step — balanced step.
- decapitating — Present participle of decapitate.
- deck passage — overnight accommodation on a vessel other than in a regular sleeping space.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- depreciating — Present participle of depreciate.
- depth charge — A depth charge is a type of bomb which explodes under water and which is used especially to destroy enemy submarines.
- dermographic — dermatographia.
- diageotropic — (of a plant part) growing at a right angle to the direction of gravity.
- discographer — a person who compiles discographies.
- discographic — of or relating to a discography
- disculpating — Present participle of disculpate.
- dopaminergic — activated by or sensitive to dopamine.
- ear piercing — hole in ear for jewellery
- ear-piercing — extremely harsh and irritating to the ear: ear-piercing noise.
- ectypography — a form of etching or engraving in which the design is produced in relief
- electrograph — A machine used in gravure printing.
- emancipating — Present participle of emancipate.
- encompassing — Present participle of encompass.
- epexegetical — Relating to epexegesis.
- epigrammatic — Of the nature or in the style of an epigram; concise, clever, and amusing.