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13-letter words containing g, a, e, t

  • cache storage — cache (def 3).
  • cage fighting — Cage fighting is a type of organized violent fighting that takes place in an enclosed space.
  • calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
  • camping stove — a portable stove powered by butane gas canisters, designed to be used for cooking while camping
  • candlelighter — a person whose task it is to light candles
  • cantilevering — Present participle of cantilever.
  • canton ginger — preserved or crystallized ginger of fine quality.
  • cariogenicity — conducive to the production or promotion of dental caries: the cariogenic factors in sweets.
  • carnegie unit — a standardized unit of measurement for evaluating courses in secondary schools in terms of college entrance requirements, representing one year's study in any subject, that subject having been taught for a minimum of 120 classroom hours to qualify.
  • carnot engine — an engine using a Carnot cycle of operations.
  • carpet knight — a soldier who spends his life away from battle; idler
  • carpetbaggers — U.S. History. a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics, especially so as to profiteer from the unsettled social and political conditions of the area during Reconstruction.
  • carpetbaggery — the practice of being a carpetbagger
  • carpetbagging — relating to carpetbaggers or to the practice of carpetbaggers
  • carriage bolt — a round-headed bolt for timber, threaded along part of its shank, inserted into holes already drilled.
  • cartographers — Plural form of cartographer.
  • cartridge pen — a pen having a removable ink reservoir that is replaced when empty
  • cash register — A cash register is a machine in a shop, pub, or restaurant that is used to add up and record how much money people pay, and in which the money is kept.
  • casting wheel — a wheel having on its circumference molds for receiving molten metal.
  • catalog verse — verse made by compiling long lists of everyday objects, names, or events, united by a common theme and often didactic in tone.
  • 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.
  • catheterizing — Present participle of catheterize.
  • cattle plague — rinderpest.
  • cave painting — a painting done by prehistoric people in caves
  • central angle — an angle whose vertex is at the centre of a circle
  • centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
  • cerynean stag — a stag living in Arcadia, captured by Hercules as one of his labors.
  • changeability — liable to change or to be changed; variable.
  • changing tone — cambiata.
  • changing-note — cambiata.
  • chargeability — that may or should be charged: chargeable duty.
  • cheese grater — an implement for grating cheese
  • 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.
  • chlorargyrite — a mineral, the naturally occurring form of silver chloride, formed in the oxidation process of silver
  • cigar lighter — a small, portable implement containing fuel which produces a flame with which to light a cigarette
  • cigarette ash — the ash created by smoking a cigarette
  • cigarette end — the part of a cigarette that is held in the mouth and that remains unsmoked after it is finished
  • cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
  • circumagitate — (transitive) To agitate on all sides.
  • 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.
  • clear-sighted — If you describe someone as clear-sighted, you admire them because they are able to understand situations well and to make sensible judgments and decisions about them.
  • clearing bath — any solution for removing material from the surface of a photographic image, as silver halide, metallic silver, or a dye or stain.
  • cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
  • co-management — the practice of managing something jointly
  • coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
  • cognitive map — a mental map of one's environment
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