13-letter words containing c, o, g, i, t
- carbon dating — Carbon dating is a system of calculating the age of a very old object by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon it contains.
- carcinologist — a person who specializes in carcinology
- card clothing — a very sturdy fabric with a leather or rubber fillet imbedded with wire teeth for disentangling and cleaning textile fibers, used to cover the rollers or flats of a carding machine.
- cardiologists — Plural form of cardiologist.
- cariogenicity — conducive to the production or promotion of dental caries: the cariogenic factors in sweets.
- carnot engine — an engine using a Carnot cycle of operations.
- carriage bolt — a round-headed bolt for timber, threaded along part of its shank, inserted into holes already drilled.
- cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
- cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
- casting couch — a couch on which a casting director is said to seduce women seeking a part in a film or play
- categorematic — (of a word) able to stand alone as a term or subject
- categorically — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.
- categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
- categorizable — Capable of being categorized.
- chang tso-lin — 1873–1928, Chinese general: military ruler of Manchuria 1918–28.
- changing tone — cambiata.
- changing-note — cambiata.
- chart-topping — very popular; coming top in the charts
- checkout girl — a female employee who works on a supermarket checkout
- checkpointing — Present participle of checkpoint.
- chicago steak — a strip steak or, sometimes, a shell steak.
- chicago style — a style of jazz flourishing in Chicago especially in the early 1920s, constituting a direct offshoot of New Orleans style, and differing from its predecessor chiefly in the diminished influence of native folk sources, the greater tension of its group improvisation, the increased emphasis on solos, and the regular use of the tenor saxophone as part of the ensemble.
- chirographist — a person who studies or who is knowledgeable about handwriting styles
- chlorargyrite — a mineral, the naturally occurring form of silver chloride, formed in the oxidation process of silver
- chthonophagia — (disease) A disease characterized by the impulsive consumption of dirt, observed in some parts of the southern United States as well as the West Indies.
- cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
- city of light — Paris2
- clear-coating — an automotive painting technique in which a coating of clear lacquer or other synthetic liquid is applied over the base color to enhance the shine and durability of the paint.
- cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
- click through — to navigate around (a website) using the links provided to move onto different pages
- click-through — the act of clicking on an advertisement or other link to go to another website, especially a retail site: The store gets lots of clickthroughs from social media.
- climatography — an account of a region's climate
- climatologist — A climatologist is someone who studies climates.
- clonogenicity — (uncountable) The ability of a cell to form clones.
- close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
- closing costs — fees paid when buying a house
- cloth binding — a type of binding in which a book is bound in stiff boards covered with cloth
- coagulability — The ability to coagulate, of being coagulable.
- coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
- coat-trailing — provocative or contentious writing, speech, behavior, etc.
- cobelligerent — a country fighting in a war on the side of another country
- codeswitching — Alternative form of code-switching.
- cognitive map — a mental map of one's environment
- cognomination — the process of giving a cognomen
- cointegration — (mathematics) The condition of two non-stationary time series whose linear combination is stationary.
- collaborating — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
- colligational — Relating to colligation.
- come to grief — If something comes to grief, it fails. If someone comes to grief, they fail in something they are doing, and may be hurt.
- come to grips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
- come to light — to be revealed