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13-letter words containing g, e, r, o

  • chlorargyrite — a mineral, the naturally occurring form of silver chloride, formed in the oxidation process of silver
  • choreographed — You describe an activity involving several people as choreographed when it is arranged but is intended to appear natural.
  • choreographer — A choreographer is someone who invents the movements for a ballet or other dance and tells the dancers how to perform them.
  • choreographic — Choreographic means relating to or connected with choreography.
  • chronologized — to arrange in chronological order.
  • cinema goers' — filmgoer.
  • cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
  • 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 loan — a bank loan to finance the purchase of securities which is repayable within the calendar day on which it is made.
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • college radio — radio broadcasting from stations affiliated with a college or university, often at a frequency below 92 MHz FM.
  • cologne brown — Vandyke brown.
  • 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.
  • company grade — military rank applying to army officers below major, as second and first lieutenants and captains.
  • comprehending — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
  • computer game — A computer game is a game that you play on a computer or on a small portable piece of electronic equipment.
  • computer geek — (jargon)   (Or "turbo nerd", "turbo geek") One who eats (computer) bugs for a living. One who fulfils all the dreariest negative stereotypes about hackers: an asocial, malodourous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. The term cannot be used by outsiders without implied insult to all hackers; compare black-on-black usage of "nigger". A computer geek may be either a fundamentally clueless individual or a proto-hacker in larval stage. See also Alpha Geek, propeller head, clustergeeking, geek out, wannabee, terminal junkie, spod, weenie.
  • computerising — Present participle of computerise.
  • computerizing — Present participle of computerize.
  • concentrating — Present participle of concentrate.
  • concert grand — a full-size grand piano, usually around 7 feet in length
  • concertgebouw — a concert hall in Amsterdam, inaugurated in 1888: the Concertgebouw Orchestra established in 1888, has been independent of the hall since World War II
  • concertinaing — Present participle of concertina.
  • concord grape — a variety of grape with purple-black fruit covered with a bluish bloom
  • confederating — Present participle of confederate.
  • configurative — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • conflagrative — That produces conflagration.
  • congeneration — Simultaneous generation (as of heat and light from the same action).
  • conglomerated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglomerate.
  • conglomerates — anything composed of heterogeneous materials or elements.
  • conglomeratic — of or relating to a conglomerate
  • conglomerator — a conglomerateur
  • congratulable — worthy of congratulation
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