14-letter words containing g, n, o, s
- coasting wagon — a toy wagon for children, often used for coasting down hills.
- 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.
- coffee grounds — the used ground beans that remain in a pot or coffee-maker
- cognoscibility — capable of being known.
- coinvestigator — a fellow investigator
- colonial goose — an old-fashioned name for stuffed roast mutton
- color sergeant — a sergeant who has charge of battalion or regimental colors.
- come on strong — If someone comes on strong, they make their intentions or feelings clear in an excessive or aggressive way.
- commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
- composing room — the room in a printing establishment in which type is set
- compound sugar — any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.
- compromisingly — In a compromising manner.
- configurations — Plural form of configuration.
- conflagrations — Plural form of conflagration.
- congressmember — a member of a congress, especially of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- congresspeople — congressmen or congresswomen
- congressperson — A Congressperson is a member of the US Congress, especially of the House of Representatives.
- conjugate axis — the axis of a hyperbola perpendicular to the transverse axis at a point equidistant from the foci.
- consanguineous — having the same ancestor; closely related
- consul general — a consul of the highest grade, usually stationed in a city of considerable commercial importance
- consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
- consumer goods — Consumer goods are items bought by people for their own use, rather than by businesses. Compare capital goods.
- consumer group — an organization that campaigns for the rights of consumers
- contagiousness — capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object: contagious diseases.
- contemporising — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
- contiguousness — The state or quality of being contiguous.
- convincingness — The state or quality of being convincing.
- 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.
- cosmogonically — In a cosmogonic manner.
- cost of living — The cost of living is the average amount of money that people in a particular place need in order to be able to afford basic food, housing, and clothing.
- costume change — a change of costume by an actor
- countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
- counterpoising — Present participle of counterpoise.
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- countersigning — Present participle of countersign.
- countersinking — Present participle of countersink.
- counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
- counting house — a room or building used by the accountants of a business
- country singer — a singer of country and western music
- courageousness — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
- cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
- criminologists — Plural form of criminologist.
- cross bridging — bridging composed of crisscross pieces of wood.
- cross holdings — the holding of shares by one company in another company
- cross matching — the testing for compatibility of a donor's and a recipient's blood prior to transfusion, in which serum of each is mixed with red blood cells of the other and observed for hemagglutination.
- cross training — training in two or more sports to improve performance, esp on one's main sport
- cross-breeding — the process of causing animals to mate with another species, or of causing plants to reproduce with another species