11-letter words containing c, g, s
- chinese lug — a lugsail stiffened by battens and kept flat when hoisted: used in Chinese sailing vessels.
- chinese tag — a variety of the game of tag in which the tagged player must hold one hand on the part of the body where he or she was tagged.
- chirrupings — Plural form of chirruping.
- chirurgeons — Plural form of chirurgeon.
- chisellings — a series of chiselled or engraved markings
- cholangitis — (medicine) An inflammation of the bile duct.
- chorus frog — any of several small North American frogs of the genus Pseudacris, having a loud call commonly heard in the early spring.
- chorus girl — A chorus girl is a young woman who sings or dances as part of a group in a show or film.
- christening — A christening is a Christian ceremony in which a baby is made a member of the Christian church and is officially given his or her name. Compare baptism.
- christingle — (in Britain) a Christian service for children held shortly before Christmas, in which each child is given a decorated fruit with a lighted candle in it
- christogram — a symbol of Christ, especially the Chi-Rho.
- christology — the branch of theology concerned with the person, attributes, and deeds of Christ
- chronograms — Plural form of chronogram.
- chrysograph — a manuscript, especially of the Middle Ages, written in gold or gold and silver ink.
- churchgoers — a person who goes to church, especially habitually.
- cigar store — a retail store specializing in tobacco products, as cigars and cigarettes.
- cinemagoers — Plural form of cinemagoer.
- clamdiggers — Close-fitting women’s casual pants hemmed at mid-calf.
- classifying — Denoting an adjective that describes the class that a head noun belongs to and characterized by not having a comparative or superlative (for example American, mortal ).
- clavigerous — bearing a key or club
- cleistogamy — self-pollination and fertilization of an unopened flower, as in the flowers of the violet produced in summer
- climatising — to acclimate to a new environment.
- clingstones — Plural form of clingstone.
- cloisonnage — cloisonné work
- cloistering — Present participle of cloister.
- closed game — a relatively complex game involving closed ranks and files and permitting only nontactical positional manoeuvring
- clothes peg — A clothes peg is a small device which you use to fasten clothes to a washing line.
- clothes-peg — a clothespin.
- cloud grass — a grass, Agrostis nebulosa, of Spain, having clusters of tiny spikelets on slender stalks, used in bouquets.
- clp(sigma*) — (language) A constraint logic programming language with regular sets.
- club fungus — basidiomycete
- cluster leg — a leg having the form of a cluster of columns or shafts.
- cnidogenous — producing or containing nematocysts.
- coast guard — The coast guard is a part of a country's military forces and is responsible for protecting the coast, carrying out rescues, and doing police work along the coast.
- coast range — a series of mountain ranges along the Pacific coast of North America, extending from Baja California to SE Alaska.
- coasteering — the sport of following a coastline by swimming, climbing, diving, and walking while wearing a wetsuit, a life jacket, and a helmet
- cogitations — concerted thought or reflection; meditation; contemplation: After hours of cogitation he came up with a new proposal.
- cognitivism — the meta-ethical thesis that moral judgments state facts and so are either true or false
- cognitivist — A person who believes or works in cognitive grammar.
- cognizances — Plural form of cognizance.
- cognoscente — a person with special knowledge in some field, esp. in the fine arts
- cognoscenti — The cognoscenti are the people who know a lot about a particular subject.
- cognoscible — able to be known or recognized
- coil spring — a helical spring formed from wire
- collagenase — an enzyme that decomposes collagen
- collagenous — any of a class of extracellular proteins abundant in higher animals, especially in the skin, bone, cartilage, tendon, and teeth, forming strong insoluble fibers and serving as connective tissue between cells, yielding gelatin when denatured by boiling.
- collegiates — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
- compassings — contrivances or schemes
- compositing — made up of disparate or separate parts or elements; compound: a composite drawing; a composite philosophy.
- compressing — Present participle of compress.