14-letter words containing g, e, o, t, c
- charge account — a business arrangement by which a customer may buy goods or services and pay for them within a specified future period
- charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
- chloroargyrite — a greyish-yellow or colourless soft secondary mineral consisting of silver chloride in cubic crystalline form: a source of silver. Formula: AgCl
- cholecystogram — the production of x-ray photographs of the gallbladder following administration of a radiopaque substance that is secreted by the liver into the gallbladder.
- cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
- cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
- cloister garth — garth (def 1).
- closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
- clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
- co-religionist — A person's co-religionists are people who have the same religion.
- coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
- cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
- code-switching — Linguistics. the alternating or mixed use of two or more languages, especially within the same discourse: My grandma’s code-switching when we cook together reminds me of my family's origins. Bilingual students are discouraged from code-switching during class.
- cog locomotive — a locomotive designed for operation on a rack railway.
- cognate object — a noun functioning as the object of a verb to which it is etymologically related, as in think a thought or sing a song
- coherent light — light in which the electromagnetic waves maintain a fixed and predictable phase relationship with each other over a period of time.
- coinvestigator — a fellow investigator
- collecting box — a box for the temporary storage of examples or specimens
- collecting tin — a tin for donations of money for charity or another particular purpose
- collectivizing — Present participle of collectivize.
- color sergeant — a sergeant who has charge of battalion or regimental colors.
- combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
- come on strong — If someone comes on strong, they make their intentions or feelings clear in an excessive or aggressive way.
- come to nought — If you try to do something but your efforts are not successful, you can say that your efforts come to nought.
- comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
- commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
- complete graph — A graph which has a link between every pair of nodes. A complete bipartite graph can be partitioned into two subsets of nodes such that each node is joined to every node in the other subset.
- concert tuning — the standard tuning for a guitar: E A D G B E
- conglomerateur — a person who forms or leads a business conglomerate
- conglomerating — Present participle of conglomerate.
- conglomeration — A conglomeration of things is a group of many different things, gathered together.
- conglomerative — of, relating to, or resembling a conglomerate
- congregational — of or relating to a congregation
- conjugate axis — the axis of a hyperbola perpendicular to the transverse axis at a point equidistant from the foci.
- connecting rod — a rod or bar for transmitting motion, esp one that connects a rotating part to a reciprocating part
- consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
- contagiousness — capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object: contagious diseases.
- containerizing — Present participle of containerize.
- contemporising — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
- contiguousness — The state or quality of being contiguous.
- conventiongoer — A person attending a convention.
- cooling system — a system which cools something such as a building or engine
- coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
- coreligionists — Plural form of coreligionist.
- cosmetological — the art or profession of applying cosmetics.
- cosmetologists — Plural form of cosmetologist.
- costume change — a change of costume by an actor
- cottage cheese — Cottage cheese is a soft, white, lumpy cheese made from sour milk.
- cottage garden — an informal style of garden which has beds planted with a great variety of traditional flowers
- cottage window — a double-hung window with an upper sash smaller than the lower.