13-letter words containing c, o, n, g
- counterboring — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
- counterchange — to change parts, qualities, etc
- countercharge — a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser
- countermining — Present participle of countermine.
- countermoving — Present participle of countermove.
- countersigned — a sign used in reply to another sign.
- counterspying — the activities of a counterspy
- counterweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counterweigh.
- counterweight — A counterweight is an action or proposal that is intended to balance or counter other actions or proposals.
- counting room — counting house.
- countinghouse — a building, room, or office used for keeping books and transacting business
- coup de poing — (no longer in technical use) a Lower Paleolithic stone hand ax, pointed or ovate in shape and having sharp cutting edges.
- court hearing — an official meeting held in court
- court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
- cousin-german — the child of one's aunt or uncle
- cove lighting — indirect lighting directed upward from an interior cornice or the like toward a cove at the edge of the ceiling.
- covent garden — a district of central London: famous for its former fruit, vegetable, and flower market, now a shopping precinct
- cover bidding — the act of tendering an artificially high price for a contract, on the assumption that the tender will not be accepted
- covered wagon — A covered wagon is a wagon that has an arched canvas roof and is pulled by horses. Covered wagons were used by the early American settlers as they travelled across the country.
- covering fire — firing intended to protect an individual or formation making a movement by forcing the enemy to take cover
- cranberry bog — a bog in which cranberry plants are cultivated.
- criminologist — the study of crime and criminals: a branch of sociology.
- crisscrossing — crossing over each other
- crop spraying — the spraying of crops with insecticide, fungicide, etc
- cross bedding — layering within one or more beds in a series of rock strata that does not run parallel to the plane of stratification
- cross-cutting — linking traditionally separate or independent parties or interests
- cross-footing — Accounting. to total figures horizontally across columns instead of vertically.
- cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
- cross-posting — the sending of an email to many forums, mailing lists, etc
- cross-selling — to sell or try to sell (similar or related products or services) to an existing customer.
- crossbreeding — Present participle of crossbreed.
- crosschecking — Present participle of crosscheck.
- crossdressing — to dress in clothing typically worn by members of the opposite sex.
- crosshatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
- crossing over — the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the diplotene stage of meiosis. It results in the rearrangement of genes and produces variation in the inherited characteristics of the offspring
- crowd surfing — the practice of being passed over the top of a crowd of people such as an audience at a pop concert
- crowdsourcing — Crowdsourcing is the practice of getting ideas or help on a project from a large number of people, usually through the Internet.
- crown molding — decorative ceiling trim
- cryogenically — in a cryogenic manner
- cucking stool — stool in which suspected witches were tested
- cummingtonite — an amphibole mineral, magnesium iron silicate hydroxide, found in metamorphic rocks
- curling irons — a metal scissor-like device that is heated, so that strands of hair may be twined around it in order to form curls
- curling stone — a large, heavy, ellipsoidal stone or a similar object made of iron, usually having one rough side and one smooth side with a hole in the center of each for screwing in a handle by which the stone is released, for use in the game of curling.
- curling tongs — a metal scissor-like device that is heated, so that strands of hair may be twined around it in order to form curls
- cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
- cutting horse — a saddle horse trained for use in separating an individual animal, such as a cow, from a herd
- cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
- cytodiagnosis — the diagnosis of disease through the study of cells in the body
- cytogenetical — of or related to cytogenetics
- cytopharynges — Plural form of cytopharynx.