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13-letter words containing c, o, d, i, n, g

  • fondant icing — icing made from fondant
  • geodesic line — the shortest line lying on a given surface and connecting two given points.
  • gin and tonic — a drink made with gin and quinine water, served in a tall glass and usually garnished with a slice of lime or lemon.
  • gluconic acid — a colorless, water-soluble acid, C 6 H 12 O 7 , obtained by the oxidation of glucose, used commercially in a 50-percent solution for cleaning metals.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • glyconic acid — gluconic acid.
  • gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
  • good riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
  • granodioritic — relating to granodiorite
  • ground sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
  • gynodioecious — having female flowers on one plant and hermaphrodite flowers on another plant of the same species.
  • homing device — a mechanism incorporated into a guided missile, airplane, etc., that aims it toward its objective.
  • hydrocracking — the cracking of petroleum or the like in the presence of hydrogen.
  • hydrofracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • indo-germanic — Indo-European
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • leading block — lead block.
  • long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
  • macrodiagonal — the longer of two diagonals
  • magnetic wood — wood containing fine particles of nickel-zinc ferrite which absorb microwave radio signals, used to line rooms where mobile phone use is undesirable
  • matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
  • method acting — film, theater: acting approach
  • micr encoding — The MICR encoding of a check is the magnetic ink pattern at the bottom that can be scanned and that contains information about the check.
  • misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
  • misrecognized — Simple past tense and past participle of misrecognize.
  • mollycoddling — Present participle of mollycoddle.
  • monoglyceride — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of one hydroxyl group with a fatty acid.
  • nodding lilac — a showy Chinese lilac, Syringa reflexa, of the olive family, having nodding clusters of pinkish flowers.
  • nonadrenergic — Not adrenergic.
  • noncondensing — Not condensing; of a steam engine, discharging the steam from the cylinder at a pressure nearly equal to or above that of the atmosphere and not into a condenser.
  • nonconducting — That does not conduct (electricity or heat).
  • nondecreasing — not decreasing.
  • nonindulgence — Lack of indulgence.
  • noradrenergic — Having the quality of noradrenaline.
  • nordic skiing — types of skiing in which the heel of the boot is not fixed to the ski, especially cross-country skiing and ski-jumping
  • oceanic ridge — any section of the narrow, largely continuous range of submarine mountains that extends into all the major oceans and at which new oceanic lithosphere is created by the rise of magma from the earth's interior
  • outdistancing — Present participle of outdistance.
  • pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
  • peptidoglycan — a polymer, consisting of polysaccharide and peptide chains, responsible for the structure of the cell wall of bacteria
  • preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • quindecagonal — (geometry) Shaped like a quindecagon; fifteen-sided.
  • recording van — a van containing sound and image recording equipment, used as a mobile recording studio
  • recordkeeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
  • riding school — a place where equitation is taught.
  • ring compound — a compound whose structural formula contains a closed chain or ring of atoms; a cyclic compound. Compare cyclic (def 3).
  • road-blocking — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
  • robot dancing — a dance of the 1980s characterized by jerky mechanical movements
  • rock hounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks, fossils, or minerals.
  • scoping study — a preliminary study to define the scope of a project
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