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16-letter words containing c, a, r, t, o, g

  • project planning — project management
  • prolonged-action — sustained-release.
  • psychogeriatrics — the psychology of old age.
  • rate of exchange — exchange rate.
  • rating community — an online community based around a website that allows members to rate each other's photographs, qualifications, etc, as well as those of applicants, and which only those approved by existing members are allowed to join
  • rattle so's cage — If someone rattles your cage, they do something which is intended to make you feel nervous.
  • re-chromatograph — to separate and analyse (a mixture of liquids or gases) by means of chromatography a second or further time
  • rearguard action — an action fought by a rearguard
  • refrigerator car — a freight car having either an ice chest or machinery for chilling perishables and sometimes having a heating unit to keep perishables from freezing.
  • releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
  • reporting clause — A reporting clause is a clause which indicates that you are talking about what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'She said' is a reporting clause.
  • right about face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
  • sangre de cristo — a mountain range in S Colorado and N New Mexico: a part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Blanca Peak, 14,390 feet (4385 meters).
  • saxo grammaticus — c1150–1206? Danish historian and poet.
  • scratch together — to assemble with difficulty
  • secondary growth — an increase in the thickness of the shoots and roots of a vascular plant as a result of the formation of new cells in the cambium.
  • shoestring catch — a catch of a ball on the fly, made close to the ground while running.
  • slang dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering the words, phrases, and idioms that reflect the least formal speech of a language. These terms are often metaphorical and playful, and are likely to be evanescent as the spoken language changes from one generation to another. Much slang belongs to specific groups, as the jargon of a particular class, profession, or age group. Some is vulgar. Some slang terms have staying power as slang, but others make a transition into common informal speech, and then into the standard language. An online slang dictionary, such as the Dictionary.com Slang Dictionary, provides immediate information about the meaning and history of a queried term and its appropriateness or lack of appropriateness in a range of social and professional circumstances.
  • social gathering — party, get-together
  • software package — bundle of files to execute computer program
  • spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
  • spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
  • staffing officer — someone who recruits, hires, and ensures the interests of staff and employees in an organization
  • stage production — a play or show which is performed on stage
  • statutory change — a change in the law
  • stock car racing — the sport of racing in stock cars
  • stomach-churning — causing nausea.
  • storage capacity — amount of room or space
  • string orchestra — an orchestra consisting only of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses
  • subcartilaginous — partially or incompletely cartilaginous.
  • subtropical high — one of several highs, as the Azores and Pacific highs, that prevail over the oceans at latitudes of about 30 degrees N and S. Also called subtropical anticyclone. Compare high (def 37).
  • supporting actor — performer: not lead
  • syncategorematic — Traditional Logic. of or relating to a word that is part of a categorical proposition but is not a term, as all, some, is.
  • teachers college — a four-year college offering courses for the training of primary and secondary school teachers and granting the bachelor's degree and often advanced degrees.
  • tertiary college — a college system incorporating the secondary school sixth form and vocational courses
  • the scots guards — a regiment of Guards Division of the British Army which dates back to 1642
  • to come a gutzer — to make an error or blunder
  • tracking station — a facility equipped with instrumentation for following the flight path of, communicating with, and collecting data from a rocket or spacecraft.
  • training college — a school providing training for a special field or profession.
  • training officer — a person whose job is to teach people the skills they need for a particular field or profession
  • travelling clock — a small clock taken by someone who is travelling
  • trick photograph — a photograph that creates an illusion
  • trucking company — a company that transports goods by lorry
  • vectorcardiogram — the graphic record produced by vectorcardiography.
  • velcro fastening — a fastening made of Velcro
  • ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
  • virginia tobacco — a type of flue-cured tobacco grown originally in Virginia
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