11-letter words containing g, a
- coprophagan — a dung beetle
- coprophagia — feeding on dung, as certain beetles.
- coprophagic — involving the eating of excrement
- copycatting — a person or thing that copies, imitates, mimics, or follows the lead of another, as a child who says or does exactly the same as another child.
- cor anglais — a woodwind instrument, the alto of the oboe family. It is a transposing instrument in F. Range: two and a half octaves upwards from E on the third space of the bass staff
- corner flag — a flag placed on a short pole marking a corner of a football pitch
- coronagraph — an optical instrument used to simulate an eclipse of the sun so that the faint solar corona can be studied
- coronograph — an instrument for observing and photographing the sun's corona, consisting of a telescope fitted with lenses, filters, and diaphragms that simulate an eclipse.
- corporating — Present participle of corporate.
- correlating — to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.
- corrugating — Present participle of corrugate.
- corrugation — a corrugating or being corrugated
- corrugators — Plural form of corrugator.
- coruscating — A coruscating speech or performance is lively, intelligent, and impressive.
- cosignatory — a person, country, etc, that signs a document jointly with others
- cosmography — a representation of the world or the universe
- cottage pie — Cottage pie is a dish which consists of minced meat in gravy with mashed potato on top.
- couch grass — a grass, Agropyron repens, with a yellowish-white creeping underground stem by which it spreads quickly: a troublesome weed
- couch-grass — any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.
- cougar bait — a younger man who is often pursued by older women seeking a sexual relationship: We all agreed he was prime cougar bait.
- covenanting — Present participle of covenant.
- cover glass — a thin square of mounted glass used to protect a photographic slide
- cracked gas — Cracked gas is gas from a refining process, which is often compressed afterwards.
- cracklingly — With a crackling sound.
- craggedness — the quality of being cragged
- cramponning — climbing using crampons
- craniognomy — the scientific study of the shape and characteristics of the skull
- craniograph — an instrument that outlines the skull.
- craniopagus — the condition of Siamese twins joined at the head
- crapehanger — a gloomy person; a pessimist
- creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
- crepehanger — a person who sees the gloomy side of things; pessimist.
- crepitating — Present participle of crepitate.
- crescograph — an instrument for measuring plant growth
- crown agent — a member of a board appointed by the Minister for Overseas Development to provide financial, commercial, and professional services for a number of overseas governments and international bodies
- crown glass — an old form of window glass made by blowing a globe and spinning it until it formed a flat disc
- crown graft — a type of graft in which the scion is inserted at the crown of the stock
- cryptogamic — Of, relating to, or denoting cryptogams.
- cryptograms — Plural form of cryptogram.
- cryptograph — something written in code or cipher
- crystallog. — crystallography
- culminating — final; decisive
- cultivating — Present participle of cultivate.
- culture gap — a divide between two social groups that have different cultures
- curia regis — (in Norman England) the king's court, which performed all functions of government
- cutty grass — a species of sedge, Cyperus ustulatus, of New Zealand with sharp leaves
- cyano group — the univalent group CN; cyanogen.
- cyclolignan — (organic chemistry) Any lignan having an additional ring.
- cycloplegia — paralysis of the muscles that adjust the shape of the lens of the eye, resulting in loss of ability to focus
- cystography — radiography of the urinary bladder using a contrast medium