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14-letter words containing c, o, g, r

  • clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
  • clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
  • climbing irons — spiked steel frames worn on the feet to assist in climbing trees, ice slopes, etc
  • cloister garth — garth (def 1).
  • clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
  • co-religionist — A person's co-religionists are people who have the same religion.
  • coarse-grained — having a large or coarse grain
  • coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
  • coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
  • cobbler's pegs — a common Australian weed, Bidens pilosa, with spiky peglike awns
  • cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
  • cocarcinogenic — of or relating to a cocarcinogen
  • coffee grinder — A coffee grinder is a machine for grinding coffee beans.
  • coffee grounds — the used ground beans that remain in a pot or coffee-maker
  • coffee morning — A coffee morning is a social event at which coffee and tea are served. It takes place in the morning, and is usually intended to raise money for charity.
  • cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
  • coherent light — light in which the electromagnetic waves maintain a fixed and predictable phase relationship with each other over a period of time.
  • coinage bronze — an alloy of 95 percent copper, 4 percent tin, and 1 percent zinc.
  • coinvestigator — a fellow investigator
  • color sergeant — a sergeant who has charge of battalion or regimental colors.
  • colouring book — A colouring book is a book of simple drawings which children can colour in.
  • combining form — A combining form is a word that is used, or used with a particular meaning, only when joined to another word. For example, '-legged' as in 'four-legged' and '-fold' as in 'fivefold' are combining forms.
  • come on strong — If someone comes on strong, they make their intentions or feelings clear in an excessive or aggressive way.
  • comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
  • commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
  • common grackle — a large songbird, Quiscalus quiscula, of the family Icteridae, of central and eastern North America, having iridescent black plumage varying in color.
  • common ragweed — a plant, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, of a chiefly North American genus: family Asteraceae (composites). Its green tassel-like flowers produce large amounts of pollen, which causes hay fever
  • complete graph — A graph which has a link between every pair of nodes. A complete bipartite graph can be partitioned into two subsets of nodes such that each node is joined to every node in the other subset.
  • composing room — the room in a printing establishment in which type is set
  • compound sugar — any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.
  • compromisingly — In a compromising manner.
  • concert tuning — the standard tuning for a guitar: E A D G B E
  • configuraholic — (jargon)   A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
  • configurations — Plural form of configuration.
  • conflagrations — Plural form of conflagration.
  • conglomerateur — a person who forms or leads a business conglomerate
  • conglomerating — Present participle of conglomerate.
  • conglomeration — A conglomeration of things is a group of many different things, gathered together.
  • conglomerative — of, relating to, or resembling a conglomerate
  • congratulating — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
  • congratulation — the act of congratulating
  • congratulatory — A congratulatory message expresses congratulations.
  • congregational — of or relating to a congregation
  • congressmember — a member of a congress, especially of the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • congresspeople — congressmen or congresswomen
  • congressperson — A Congressperson is a member of the US Congress, especially of the House of Representatives.
  • connecting rod — a rod or bar for transmitting motion, esp one that connects a rotating part to a reciprocating part
  • consul general — a consul of the highest grade, usually stationed in a city of considerable commercial importance
  • consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
  • consumer goods — Consumer goods are items bought by people for their own use, rather than by businesses. Compare capital goods.
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