12-letter words containing g, a, s, c
- coprophagist — a person who eats excrement
- coprophagous — (esp of certain beetles) feeding on dung
- coral fungus — any of a group of brightly colored fungi having erect, branching fruiting bodies that resemble coral.
- coral gables — a city in SE Florida, near Miami.
- core storage — a kind of computer memory consisting of storage units made of ferromagnetic rings
- coronagraphs — Plural form of coronagraph.
- corrugations — the act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated.
- corruscating — Present participle of corruscate.
- cosmogonical — Of or pertaining to cosmogony.
- cosmographer — (astrophysics) A scientist specializing in understanding and describing the nature of the universe.
- cosmographic — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
- cosmological — the branch of philosophy dealing with the origin and general structure of the universe, with its parts, elements, and laws, and especially with such of its characteristics as space, time, causality, and freedom.
- cotton grass — any of various N temperate and arctic grasslike bog plants of the cyperaceous genus Eriophorum, whose clusters of long silky hairs resemble cotton tufts
- courageously — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
- craniologist — the science that deals with the size, shape, and other characteristics of human skulls.
- crazy eights — a card game played by two or more persons with a 52-card deck, the object of which is to be the first to get rid of one's hand by successively playing a card of the same suit or denomination as that played by the preceding player, with an eight counting for any desired suit.
- crimson flag — a southern African plant, Schizostylis coccinea, of the iris family, having tubular red flowers.
- cross-dating — a method of dating objects, remains, etc, by comparison and correlation with other sites and levels
- cross-garnet — a hinge with a long horizontal strap fixed to the face of a door and a short vertical leaf fixed to the door frame
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossbarring — stripes, esp those of an animal
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- cryosurgical — of or relating to cryosurgery
- cryptogamist — a botanist specializing in the study of cryptogams
- cryptogamous — Of or pertaining to the cryptogams.
- crystalising — Present participle of crystalise.
- curate's egg — something that has both good and bad parts
- cyanogenesis — the release by certain plants, such as cherry laurel, of hydrogen cyanide, esp after wounding or invasion by pathogens
- cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- dancing step — balanced step.
- deck passage — overnight accommodation on a vessel other than in a regular sleeping space.
- decongestant — A decongestant is a medicine which helps someone who has a cold to breathe more easily.
- decreasingly — In a decreasing manner.
- deescalating — Present participle of deescalate.
- degeneracies — Plural form of degeneracy.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- ding an sich — thing-in-itself.
- disaffecting — Present participle of disaffect.
- disagreeance — (obsolete) disagreement.
- discandering — discandying, melting from a state of being candied
- discographer — a person who compiles discographies.
- discographic — of or relating to a discography
- discouraging — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- disculpating — Present participle of disculpate.
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- dissociating — Present participle of dissociate.
- dodecagynous — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- dog's chance — little likelihood; small chance (usually used in the negative): That project didn't have a dog's chance of succeeding.
- east chicago — a port in NW Indiana, on Lake Michigan, near Chicago.
- egg sandwich — two slices of bread filled with chopped egg