14-letter words containing g, a, n, t
- climate change — change occurring in the Earth's overall climate and in particular climates, now regarded as a result of human activity and resulting generally in global warming
- clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
- closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
- clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
- coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
- coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
- coasting wagon — a toy wagon for children, often used for coasting down hills.
- cognate object — a noun functioning as the object of a verb to which it is etymologically related, as in think a thought or sing a song
- coinvestigator — a fellow investigator
- color sergeant — a sergeant who has charge of battalion or regimental colors.
- comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
- commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
- conciliatingly — So as to conciliate.
- configurations — Plural form of configuration.
- conflagrations — Plural form of conflagration.
- conglobulation — the act of conglobing
- 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
- conglutinating — Present participle of conglutinate.
- conglutination — glued together; adhering.
- 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
- conjugate axis — the axis of a hyperbola perpendicular to the transverse axis at a point equidistant from the foci.
- consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
- contact flight — a flight in which the pilot remains in sight of land or water
- contact flying — flying an airplane in conditions of good visibility so that the course and altitude can be determined by observing points or objects on the ground; VFR
- contagiousness — capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object: contagious diseases.
- containerizing — Present participle of containerize.
- costume change — a change of costume by an actor
- cottage garden — an informal style of garden which has beds planted with a great variety of traditional flowers
- cottage window — a double-hung window with an upper sash smaller than the lower.
- cotton batting — cotton wadding, as used in quilt making
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- counterchanged — Exchanged.
- countercharged — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharge.
- countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
- counterprogram — to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete with one on another station.
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
- courting chair — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
- credentialling — the practice of analysing the credentials of an individual or organization
- credit manager — a person employed in a business firm to administer credit service to its customers, especially to evaluate the extension and amount of credit to be granted.
- crimean gothic — a form of the Gothic language that survived in the Crimea after the extinction of Gothic elsewhere in Europe, known only from a list of words and phrases recorded in the 16th century.
- critical angle — the smallest possible angle of incidence for which light rays are totally reflected at an interface between substances of different refractive index
- cross matching — the testing for compatibility of a donor's and a recipient's blood prior to transfusion, in which serum of each is mixed with red blood cells of the other and observed for hemagglutination.