12-letter words containing g, e, o, c, r
- conglomerate — A conglomerate is a large business firm consisting of several different companies.
- congratulate — If you congratulate someone, you say something to show you are pleased that something nice has happened to them.
- congregating — Present participle of congregate.
- congregation — The people who are attending a church service or who regularly attend a church service are referred to as the congregation.
- congruencies — congruence.
- congruential — (mathematics) That uses congruency (division by a modulus).
- conjecturing — the formation or expression of an opinion or theory without sufficient evidence for proof.
- conqueringly — in a conquering manner
- consecrating — Present participle of consecrate.
- conservating — Present participle of conservate.
- 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.
- copyrighters — Plural form of copyrighter.
- coral gables — a city in SE Florida, near Miami.
- corbie gable — a gable having corbie-steps
- core drawing — drawing of fine tubing using wire as a mandrel.
- core gateway — Historically, one of a set of gateways (routers) operated by the Internet Network Operations Center at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). The core gateway system formed a central part of Internet routing in that all groups must advertise paths to their networks from a core gateway.
- core storage — a kind of computer memory consisting of storage units made of ferromagnetic rings
- corregidores — the chief magistrate of a town in Spain.
- cosmographer — (astrophysics) A scientist specializing in understanding and describing the nature of the universe.
- costermonger — a person who sells fruit, vegetables, etc, from a barrow
- cottage roll — a small pickled boneless ham
- 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
- courageously — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
- cover charge — A cover charge is a sum of money that you must pay in some restaurants and nightclubs in addition to the money that you pay there for your food and drink.
- cover ground — to move or traverse a certain distance
- 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.
- cricket frog — either of two tree frogs, Acris gryllus or A. crepitans, of eastern and central U.S., having a clicking call.
- 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
- cross-legged — If someone is sitting cross-legged, they are sitting on the floor with their legs bent so that their knees point outwards.
- 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.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- decategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- derecognized — Simple past tense and past participle of derecognize.