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13-letter words containing g, e, n, i, c

  • challengingly — in a way that challenges or defies someone
  • changeability — liable to change or to be changed; variable.
  • changing tone — cambiata.
  • changing-note — cambiata.
  • checkpointing — Present participle of checkpoint.
  • checkweighman — a representative elected by coal miners to check the findings of the mine owner's weighman where miners are paid by the weight of coal mined.
  • chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
  • chickenburger — A hot sandwich made of a patty of chicken in a bun, often with other ingredients.
  • child rearing — the activity of rearing children
  • child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
  • chilean guava — a tropical shrub or small tree, Ugni molinae, of the myrtle family, having leathery, oval leaves, rose-pink flowers, and blue-black, edible fruit.
  • chronologized — to arrange in chronological order.
  • cider vinegar — a type of vinegar produced by the acetification of cider
  • cigarette end — the part of a cigarette that is held in the mouth and that remains unsmoked after it is finished
  • cinema goers' — filmgoer.
  • cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
  • circumflexing — Present participle of circumflex.
  • circumventing — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • citizen genet — Edmond Charles Edouard [ed-mawn sharl ey-dwar] /ɛdˈmɔ̃ ʃarl eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), ("Citizen Genêt") 1763–1834, French minister to the U.S. in 1793.
  • 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
  • class meaning — the meaning of a grammatical category or a form class, common to all forms showing the category or to all members of the form class, as in the meaning of number common to all Latin nouns or the meaning of singular common to all Latin singular noun and verb forms.
  • cleaning lady — A cleaning lady is a woman who is employed to clean the rooms and furniture inside a building.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • climbing fern — any of several chiefly tropical, vinelike ferns of the genus Lygodium, having climbing or trailing stems.
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • clinging vine — a woman who displays excessive emotional dependence on a man
  • clonogenicity — (uncountable) The ability of a cell to form clones.
  • close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
  • 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.
  • cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
  • coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
  • coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
  • 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.
  • codeswitching — Alternative form of code-switching.
  • coffin dodger — an old person
  • cognitive map — a mental map of one's environment
  • cointegration — (mathematics) The condition of two non-stationary time series whose linear combination is stationary.
  • collieshangie — a quarrel
  • coming of age — When something reaches an important stage of development and is accepted by a large number of people, you can refer to this as its coming of age.
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