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13-letter words containing g, c, r

  • circuit judge — a judge presiding over a county court or crown court
  • circularising — Present participle of circularise.
  • circularizing — Present participle of circularize.
  • circumagitate — (transitive) To agitate on all sides.
  • circumambages — round-about methods
  • circumflexing — Present participle of circumflex.
  • circumventing — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • circumvolving — Present participle of circumvolve.
  • civil righter — a civil rightist.
  • claddagh ring — any of various elaborately designed rings, esp one in the shape of two hands embracing a heart, given as a token of lasting affection
  • claiming race — a race in which each owner declares beforehand the price at which his or her horse will be offered for sale after the race
  • 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 bank — The clearing banks are the main banks in Britain. Clearing banks use the central clearing house in London to deal with other banks.
  • clearing bath — any solution for removing material from the surface of a photographic image, as silver halide, metallic silver, or a dye or stain.
  • clearing loan — a bank loan to finance the purchase of securities which is repayable within the calendar day on which it is made.
  • clearing mark — either of a pair of landmarks or marks on a mariner's chart lying upon a line (clearing line) along which a vessel can sail to avoid navigational hazards.
  • clearing sale — the auction of plant, stock, and effects of a country property, esp after the property has changed hands
  • clearing-line — either of a pair of landmarks or marks on a mariner's chart lying upon a line (clearing line) along which a vessel can sail to avoid navigational hazards.
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • click through — to navigate around (a website) using the links provided to move onto different pages
  • click-through — the act of clicking on an advertisement or other link to go to another website, especially a retail site: The store gets lots of clickthroughs from social media.
  • climatography — an account of a region's climate
  • climbing fern — any of several chiefly tropical, vinelike ferns of the genus Lygodium, having climbing or trailing stems.
  • climbing iron — either of a pair of metal frames with spikes that may be strapped over footgear, on the inside of the leg to aid in climbing trees, public utility poles, etc.
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
  • closing error — the amount by which a closed traverse fails to satisfy the requirements of a true mathematical figure, as the length of line joining the true and computed position of the same point.
  • closing price — On the stock exchange, the closing price of a share is its price at the end of a day's business.
  • club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
  • coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
  • coat-trailing — provocative or contentious writing, speech, behavior, etc.
  • cobelligerent — a country fighting in a war on the side of another country
  • cobol fingers — (jargon)   /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
  • cocarcinogens — Plural form of cocarcinogen.
  • coffin dodger — an old person
  • cogent prolog — (language)   A full Edinburgh standard Prolog with debugger, listener, DCG, many built-ins, text windows, support for modules, and support for both 16-bit and 32-bit protected mode. Contact: Dennis C. Merritt.
  • cointegration — (mathematics) The condition of two non-stationary time series whose linear combination is stationary.
  • collaborating — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
  • college radio — radio broadcasting from stations affiliated with a college or university, often at a frequency below 92 MHz FM.
  • cologne brown — Vandyke brown.
  • coloring book — A coloring book is a book of simple drawings which children can color in.
  • come to grief — If something comes to grief, it fails. If someone comes to grief, they fail in something they are doing, and may be hurt.
  • come to grips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
  • commandeering — Present participle of commandeer.
  • commemorating — Present participle of commemorate.
  • commiserating — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
  • common gender — in English, a noun that is the same whether it is referring to either gender, such as cat, people, spouse.
  • common ground — If two people or groups find common ground, they agree about something, especially when they do not agree about other things.
  • company grade — military rank applying to army officers below major, as second and first lieutenants and captains.
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