12-letter words containing g, i, a, c
- congregation — The people who are attending a church service or who regularly attend a church service are referred to as the congregation.
- congruential — (mathematics) That uses congruency (division by a modulus).
- conjugations — Plural form of conjugation.
- consanguined — Of kindred blood; related.
- consecrating — Present participle of consecrate.
- conservating — Present participle of conservate.
- consignation — to banish or set apart in one's mind; relegate: to consign unpleasant thoughts to oblivion.
- consignatory — a cosignatory
- consociating — Present participle of consociate.
- constipating — to cause constipation in; make costive.
- constraining — Present participle of constrain.
- consummating — Present participle of consummate.
- contact high — a state of altered consciousness caused by inhaling the drugs other people are smoking
- contagionist — a person who, before conclusive proof is available, maintains that certain diseases are contagious
- contagiously — capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object: contagious diseases.
- contignation — the act of joining timbers together
- contravening — to come or be in conflict with; go or act against; deny or oppose: to contravene a statement.
- convalescing — to recover health and strength after illness; make progress toward recovery of health.
- conversating — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
- conveyancing — Conveyancing is the process of transferring the legal ownership of property.
- cooking salt — a type of salt used in cooking
- cooling rack — a wire frame used for cooling food on
- coordinating — Present participle of coordinate.
- coprophagist — a person who eats excrement
- copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- corbie gable — a gable having corbie-steps
- core drawing — drawing of fine tubing using wire as a mandrel.
- corrugations — the act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated.
- corruscating — Present participle of corruscate.
- corticofugal — (of a nerve fiber) originating in and running from the cerebral cortex.
- cosmogonical — Of or pertaining to cosmogony.
- cosmographic — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
- cosmological — the branch of philosophy dealing with the origin and general structure of the universe, with its parts, elements, and laws, and especially with such of its characteristics as space, time, causality, and freedom.
- counterimage — a corresponding image
- craniography — examination of the skull as depicted by craniographs, photographs, and charts.
- craniologist — the science that deals with the size, shape, and other characteristics of human skulls.
- 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
- crazy eights — a card game played by two or more persons with a 52-card deck, the object of which is to be the first to get rid of one's hand by successively playing a card of the same suit or denomination as that played by the preceding player, with an eight counting for any desired suit.
- crazy paving — Crazy paving is pieces of stone of different shapes fitted together to make a path or flat area.
- crenellating — Present participle of crenellate.
- crimson flag — a southern African plant, Schizostylis coccinea, of the iris family, having tubular red flowers.
- criptography — (spelling) It's spelled "cryptography".
- cross-dating — a method of dating objects, remains, etc, by comparison and correlation with other sites and levels
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossbarring — stripes, esp those of an animal
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- cryosurgical — of or relating to cryosurgery
- cryptogamian — of or relating to cryptogams
- cryptogamist — a botanist specializing in the study of cryptogams