13-letter words containing c, o, g
- clonogenicity — (uncountable) The ability of a cell to form clones.
- close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
- close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
- closing costs — fees paid when buying a house
- closing error — the amount by which a closed traverse fails to satisfy the requirements of a true mathematical figure, as the length of line joining the true and computed position of the same point.
- closing price — On the stock exchange, the closing price of a share is its price at the end of a day's business.
- cloth binding — a type of binding in which a book is bound in stiff boards covered with cloth
- cloth of gold — cloth woven from silk threads interspersed with gold
- cloth-of-gold — a garden plant, Crocus augustifolius, of the iris family, native to the Crimean mountains, having orange-red flowers.
- cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
- club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
- co-management — the practice of managing something jointly
- coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
- coagulability — The ability to coagulate, of being coagulable.
- coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
- 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
- cobol fingers — (jargon) /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
- cocarcinogens — Plural form of cocarcinogen.
- coco language — (language) (Cocol) A language for writing left-attributed LL1 grammars, used as the input language for the Coco LL1 parser generator, which produces Modula-2 table-driven parsers as output. Cocol-2 is a version for the Coco-2 generator. Cocol/R is an improvement over the original Cocol and Cocol-2.
- codeswitching — Alternative form of code-switching.
- coffin dodger — an old person
- cogent prolog — (language) A full Edinburgh standard Prolog with debugger, listener, DCG, many built-ins, text windows, support for modules, and support for both 16-bit and 32-bit protected mode. Contact: Dennis C. Merritt.
- cognitive map — a mental map of one's environment
- cognomination — the process of giving a cognomen
- cohomological — of or relating to cohomology
- cointegration — (mathematics) The condition of two non-stationary time series whose linear combination is stationary.
- cold moulding — the production of moulded articles from resins that polymerize chemically
- collaborating — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
- colleagueship — workplace companionship
- college radio — radio broadcasting from stations affiliated with a college or university, often at a frequency below 92 MHz FM.
- college-bound — intending to go to college
- collieshangie — a quarrel
- colligational — Relating to colligation.
- cologne brown — Vandyke brown.
- coloring book — A coloring book is a book of simple drawings which children can color in.
- colostomy bag — a bag that is attached to the surgical opening from the colon onto the surface of the body and into which faecal matter passes
- 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
- coming of age — When something reaches an important stage of development and is accepted by a large number of people, you can refer to this as its coming of age.
- commandeering — Present participle of commandeer.
- commemorating — Present participle of commemorate.
- commiserating — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
- commissioning — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
- commoditising — Present participle of commoditise.
- commoditizing — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
- common gender — in English, a noun that is the same whether it is referring to either gender, such as cat, people, spouse.
- common ground — If two people or groups find common ground, they agree about something, especially when they do not agree about other things.