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15-letter words containing g, i, r, a

  • canning factory — a building or group of buildings containing a plant assembly where food is sealed in cans or tins to preserve it
  • capital gearing — the ratio of a company's debt capital to its equity capital
  • carcinogenicity — any substance or agent that tends to produce a cancer.
  • cardiac massage — a rhythmic compressing of the heart, using the hands to force blood through the blood vessels: an emergency medical procedure for treating heart failure
  • carding machine — card2 (defs 1, 2).
  • carl xvi gustaf — born 1946, king of Sweden from 1973
  • carriage return — a mechanism on a typewriter that causes the carriage to return to the left side of the paper
  • carrying charge — the opportunity cost of unproductive assets, such as goods stored in a warehouse
  • cartridge brass — brass composed of about 70 percent copper and 30 percent zinc.
  • cartridge paper — an uncoated type of drawing or printing paper, usually made from bleached sulphate wood pulp with an addition of esparto grass
  • catastrophising — Present participle of catastrophise.
  • catastrophizing — Present participle of catastrophize.
  • categoricalness — The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute.
  • categorisations — Plural form of categorisation.
  • categorizations — Plural form of categorization.
  • category killer — a person, product, or business that dominates a particular market
  • cattle breeding — the science or business of breeding and raising cattle
  • centipede grass — a slow-growing grass, Eremochloa ophiuroides, introduced into the U.S. from China and used for lawns in warm areas.
  • central casting — a nominal casting agency that delivers stereotypes to films or, figuratively, to real life situations
  • central heating — Central heating is a heating system for buildings. Air or water is heated in one place and travels round a building through pipes and radiators.
  • central locking — a system by which all the doors of a motor vehicle can be locked simultaneously when the driver's door is locked
  • centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
  • channel surfing — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
  • channel-surfing — Channel-surfing is the same as channel-hopping.
  • chaulmoogra oil — a brownish-yellow oil or soft fat expressed from the seeds of a chaulmoogra tree, used formerly in the treatment of leprosy and skin diseases.
  • child battering — child abuse in the form of battering
  • child-battering — the physical abuse of a child by a parent or guardian, as by beating.
  • cholangiography — radiographic examination of the bile ducts after the introduction into them of a contrast medium
  • cholinergically — in a cholinergic manner
  • choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
  • chromatographic — (analytical chemistry) Of or pertaining to chromatography.
  • chronologically — arranged in the order of time: a chronological list of events.
  • cigarette paper — a piece of thin paper rolled around tobacco to form a cigarette
  • cigarette smoke — the acrid smoke produced by cigarettes being smoked
  • cineangiography — the use of motion-picture recording to trace the passage of dye through blood vessels, for the diagnosis of heart and blood vessel disease
  • cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
  • cinematographer — A cinematographer is a person who decides what filming techniques should be used during the shooting of a film.
  • cinematographic — a motion-picture projector.
  • cinemicrography — the making of a film through the lens of a microscope
  • cineradiography — the filming of motion pictures through a fluoroscope or x-ray machine.
  • circumambagious — in a round-about manner
  • circumnavigable — Able to be circumnavigated.
  • circumnavigated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate.
  • circumnavigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumnavigate.
  • circumnavigator — A person who circumnavigates; that is, sails around the world.
  • circumvallating — Present participle of circumvallate.
  • classical greek — the form of Greek used in classical literature, especially the literary Attic Greek of the 5th and 4th centuries b.c.
  • clotting factor — any one of a group of substances, including factor VIII, the presence of which in the blood is essential for blood clotting to occur
  • cockfight chair — a chair designed to be sat on backward, having a bell seat and a crest rail that serves as an armrest.
  • cognitive radio — a radio that can automatically alter frequency, power, modulation, etc, according to where it is located
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