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12-letter words containing g, e, n, r

  • constringent — constricting.
  • contravening — to come or be in conflict with; go or act against; deny or oppose: to contravene a statement.
  • convent girl — a girl who goes to or has been to a convent school
  • convergences — Plural form of convergence.
  • convergently — characterized by convergence; tending to come together; merging.
  • conversating — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
  • cook-general — (formerly, esp in the 1920s and '30s) a domestic servant who did cooking and housework
  • coprocessing — the act of processing jointly
  • copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
  • core drawing — drawing of fine tubing using wire as a mandrel.
  • costermonger — a person who sells fruit, vegetables, etc, from a barrow
  • counteragent — a person or thing that counteracts
  • counterargue — to argue against something
  • counterimage — a corresponding image
  • counterlight — a light opposite something, such as a painting, that negatively affects the appearance of that object
  • countersigns — Plural form of countersign.
  • counterweigh — counterbalance
  • cover ground — to move or traverse a certain distance
  • crapehanging — the practice of hanging crape, esp as a sign of mourning
  • crawling peg — a method of stabilizing exchange rates, prices, etc, by maintaining a fixed level for a specified period or until the level has persisted at an upper or lower limit for a specified period and then permitting a predetermined incremental rise or fall
  • crenellating — Present participle of crenellate.
  • crepe-hanger — a person who sees the gloomy side of things; pessimist.
  • crescendoing — Music. a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force. a musical passage characterized by such an increase. the performance of a crescendo passage: The crescendo by the violins is too abrupt.
  • criminogenic — causing or promoting crime
  • cringeworthy — Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
  • 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
  • crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
  • curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
  • cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
  • cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
  • cybersurfing — The practice of using and browsing the Internet, especially as a habitual pastime.
  • danger angle — a horizontal or vertical angle, subtended by two points on shore, that provides a maximum or minimum angle between the points as observed from a vessel if it is to steer a safe course.
  • danger money — extra money paid to compensate for the risks involved in certain dangerous jobs
  • danger point — the point at which something ceases to be safe
  • data general — (company)   A US computer manufacturer. Responsible for the Nova minicomputer. Quarterly sales $284M, profits -$12M (Aug 1994).
  • daughterling — a small daughter
  • de-integrate — to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.
  • dead fingers — a disease of users of pneumatic drills, characterized by anaesthesia of the fingertips and cyanosis
  • dealing room — A dealing room is a place where shares, currencies, or commodities are bought and sold.
  • decelerating — Present participle of decelerate.
  • declustering — Any technique that counteracts clustering (in any sense).
  • decluttering — Present participle of declutter.
  • decreasingly — In a decreasing manner.
  • deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
  • deflagrating — Present participle of deflagrate.
  • deflagration — Deflagration is an explosion in which the speed of burning is lower than the speed of sound in the surroundings.
  • defragmented — Simple past tense and past participle of defragment.
  • defragmenter — (computing) That which defragments; a program that performs defragmentation.
  • degenderized — Simple past tense and past participle of degenderize.
  • degeneracies — Plural form of degeneracy.
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