10-letter words containing g, l, c
- cephalalgy — Dated form of cephalalgia.
- cetologist — the branch of zoology dealing with whales and dolphins.
- chaffingly — in a rallying yet light-hearted manner
- challenged — If you say that someone is challenged in a particular way, you mean that they have a disability in that area. Challenged is often combined with inappropriate words for humorous effect.
- challenger — A challenger is someone who competes with you for a position or title that you already have, for example being a sports champion or a political leader.
- challenges — Plural form of challenge.
- changeable — Someone or something that is changeable is likely to change many times.
- changeably — liable to change or to be changed; variable.
- changeless — unchanging; immutable
- changeling — A changeling is a child who was put in the place of another child when they were both babies. In stories changelings were often taken or left by fairies.
- channeling — esp. in some New Age beliefs, the process by which a person becomes a conduit for a deceased person, as someone from an ancient culture, who imparts information about a previous life
- chargeable — If something is chargeable, you have to pay a sum of money for it.
- chargeless — without charge; of no cost
- charmingly — In a charming manner.
- chavelling — Present participle of chavel.
- cheeringly — In a way that cheers; hearteningly, encouragingly.
- chiangling — a city in S Hubei province, in central China, on the Chang Jiang.
- chillaxing — Present participle of chillax.
- chillingly — coldness, especially a moderate but uncomfortably penetrating coldness: the chill of evening.
- chilognath — any member of the diplopod subclass Chilognatha, including millipedes having exoskeletons heavily sclerotized with calcium carbonate.
- chiselling — (British) present participle of chisel.
- choirgirls — Plural form of choirgirl.
- cholagogue — a drug or other substance that promotes the flow of bile from the gall bladder into the duodenum
- chop logic — to use excessively subtle or involved logic or argument
- choreology — the method of writing down the signs and characters that indicate movements in dance
- chronology — The chronology of a series of past events is the times at which they happened in the order in which they happened.
- chug-a-lug — to consume (a drink) in one gulp
- cigarillos — Plural form of cigarillo.
- cingulated — Having a cingulum.
- civilising — Present participle of civilise.
- civilizing — bringing a higher state of culture and social development
- cladograms — Plural form of cladogram.
- clambering — of or relating to plants that creep or climb like vines, but without benefit of tendrils.
- clamdigger — One who digs for clams.
- clamouring — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clangorous — a loud, resonant sound; clang.
- clankingly — With a clanking sound.
- clappering — the sound made by using a clapper
- clarifying — to make (an idea, statement, etc.) clear or intelligible; to free from ambiguity.
- clarksburg — a city in N West Virginia, on the Monongahela River.
- clashingly — In a clashing manner.
- clattering — to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other: The shutters clattered in the wind.
- clearwings — Plural form of clearwing.
- cleggmania — the brief surge in popularity for the leader of the Liberal Democrat party, Nick Clegg, after a series of live televised debates preceding the 2010 British general election
- clergiable — (of a criminal charge) able to be contested in a clerical rather than a secular court
- cliff-hang — to wait eagerly for the outcome of a suspenseful situation or contest.
- climograph — A chart that summarizes the climate of a place by superimposing a line graph representing average monthly temperature on a bar chart representing average monthly precipitation.
- clinginess — The state or condition of being clingy.
- clingstone — a fruit, such as certain peaches, in which the flesh tends to adhere to the stone
- clinograph — (in mining, construction, etc.) an instrument that records the deviation of boreholes or the like from the vertical.