12-letter words containing c, i, r, g
- crescendoing — Music. a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force. a musical passage characterized by such an increase. the performance of a crescendo passage: The crescendo by the violins is too abrupt.
- cricket frog — either of two tree frogs, Acris gryllus or A. crepitans, of eastern and central U.S., having a clicking call.
- criminogenic — causing or promoting crime
- crimson flag — a southern African plant, Schizostylis coccinea, of the iris family, having tubular red flowers.
- cringeworthy — Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
- criptography — (spelling) It's spelled "cryptography".
- crop dusting — Crop dusting is the spreading of pesticides on crops, usually from an aircraft.
- crop-dusting — the spraying of powdered fungicides or insecticides on crops, usually from an airplane.
- cross-dating — a method of dating objects, remains, etc, by comparison and correlation with other sites and levels
- cross-string — overstring.
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossbarring — stripes, esp those of an animal
- crosscutting — a transverse cut or course.
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- crossposting — Present participle of crosspost.
- crowdfunding — Crowdfunding is when a large number of people each give an amount of money to pay for a project, especially by using a website to collect the money.
- cryoglobulin — an abnormal immunoglobulin, present in the blood in certain diseases, that precipitates below about 10°C, obstructing small blood vessels in the fingers and toes
- cryosurgical — of or relating to cryosurgery
- cryptogamian — of or relating to cryptogams
- cryptogamist — a botanist specializing in the study of cryptogams
- cryptologist — cryptography.
- crystalising — Present participle of crystalise.
- curling iron — A curling iron is a metal device, resembling scissors, that you heat and use to form curls in your hair.
- currycombing — Present participle of currycomb.
- curtain ring — a wooden, plastic, or metal ring used to attach a curtain to a curtain pole
- cut a figure — to attract attention
- cutting room — The cutting room in a film production company is the place where the film is edited.
- cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- cybersurfing — The practice of using and browsing the Internet, especially as a habitual pastime.
- cycling tour — a holiday involving a tour of an area or region by bicycle
- cyclographic — of or relating to a cyclograph
- dancing frog — (programming, humour) A bug or glitch that only occurs for a particular user; never when the user tries to show it to anyone else. The term is derived from a Warner Brothers cartoon in which a man discovers a frog which can sing and dance; he believes this will make his fortune but the frog never performs in front of anyone else.
- dancing girl — a professional female dancer who dances to entertain customers at a club, theatre, etc
- decategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- decelerating — Present participle of decelerate.
- declustering — Any technique that counteracts clustering (in any sense).
- decluttering — Present participle of declutter.
- decreasingly — In a decreasing manner.
- degeneracies — Plural form of degeneracy.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- depreciating — Present participle of depreciate.
- deracinating — Present participle of deracinate Pulling up by the roots.
- derecognized — Simple past tense and past participle of derecognize.
- dermatologic — Dermatologic means of or relating to the skin.
- dermographic — dermatographia.
- diageotropic — (of a plant part) growing at a right angle to the direction of gravity.
- diagrammatic — Something that is in diagrammatic form is arranged or drawn as a diagram.
- diego garcia — chief island of the Chagos Archipelago, British Indian Ocean Territory: 17 sq mi (44 sq km)
- differencing — the state or relation of being different; dissimilarity: There is a great difference between the two.