11-letter words containing c, g, s
- homecomings — Plural form of homecoming.
- horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.
- hucksterage — the business of a huckster; peddling
- huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
- hygroscopes — Plural form of hygroscope.
- hygroscopic — absorbing or attracting moisture from the air.
- hypogastric — of, relating to, or situated in the hypogastrium.
- ice fishing — the act or practice of fishing through a hole cut in the ice.
- ice-skating — If you go ice-skating, you move about on ice wearing ice-skates. This activity is also a sport.
- icing sugar — Icing sugar is very fine white sugar that is used for making icing and sweets.
- ignosticism — The philosophical position that beliefs regarding the existence or non-existence of God (capitalized) all assume too much, especially because there is not just one universal definition of the word
- incongruous — out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming: an incongruous effect; incongruous behavior.
- indulgences — Plural form of indulgence.
- insectifuge — a substance or preparation for driving off insects.
- insectology — entomology.
- instructing — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
- intumescing — Present participle of intumesce.
- inviscating — Present participle of inviscate.
- isomagnetic — noting or pertaining to points of equal magnetic force.
- italicising — Present participle of italicise.
- jackass rig — a rig of sails not conforming to a recognized type.
- jargonistic — the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group: medical jargon.
- job costing — a method of cost accounting by which the total cost of a given unit or quantity is determined by computing the costs that go into making a product as it moves through the manufacturing process.
- king closer — a brick of regular length and thickness, used in building corners, having a long bevel from a point on one side to one about halfway across the adjacent end.
- landscaping — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
- languescent — becoming languid
- large-scale — very extensive or encompassing; of great scope: a large-scale business plan.
- latchstring — a string passed through a hole in a door, for raising the latch from the outside.
- legal costs — the costs of a court action; the judge decides which side should pay them
- levoglucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- lifecasting — The creation of a three-dimensional copy of a living body by means of molding and casting techniques.
- light music — music for popular entertainment
- lightsticks — Plural form of lightstick.
- lightstruck — (of beer) Spoiled by exposure to light, which causes riboflavin to react with and break down the isohumulones.
- lightswitch — Alternative spelling of light switch.
- lignicolous — growing or living on or in wood
- linecasting — the casting of an entire line of type in a slug.
- linguistics — the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics.
- logical sum — union (def 10a).
- logicalness — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- logistician — a person who is skilled in symbolic logic.
- logomachies — Plural form of logomachy.
- logomachist — One who starts fights about the meaning of words.
- long splice — a splice for forming a united rope narrow enough to pass through a block, made by unlaying the ends of two ropes for a considerable distance, overlapping the strands so as to make pairs of one strand from each rope, unlaying one of each pair, twisting the other strand into its place in the united rope, and tucking the yarns of the unlaid strand separately into place.
- low-scoring — (of a sports match) having, getting, or ending in a low score
- luminescing — Present participle of luminesce.
- macdesigner — A design CASE tool for the Mac from Excel Software, Inc.
- machineguns — Plural form of machinegun.
- macrographs — Plural form of macrograph.
- macrophages — Plural form of macrophage.