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13-letter words containing g, o, l, i

  • categorizable — Capable of being categorized.
  • chaise longue — A chaise longue is a kind of sofa with only one arm and usually a back along half its length.
  • chaise lounge — A chaise lounge is the same as a chaise longue.
  • chang tso-lin — 1873–1928, Chinese general: military ruler of Manchuria 1918–28.
  • checkout girl — a female employee who works on a supermarket checkout
  • chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
  • chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
  • chicago style — a style of jazz flourishing in Chicago especially in the early 1920s, constituting a direct offshoot of New Orleans style, and differing from its predecessor chiefly in the diminished influence of native folk sources, the greater tension of its group improvisation, the increased emphasis on solos, and the regular use of the tenor saxophone as part of the ensemble.
  • child prodigy — A child prodigy is a child with a very great talent.
  • chlorargyrite — a mineral, the naturally occurring form of silver chloride, formed in the oxidation process of silver
  • chloroforming — Present participle of chloroform.
  • cholangiogram — an X-ray of the bile duct performed after administering dye into the ducts that shows up on the X-ray
  • chronobiology — the branch of biology concerned with the periodicity occurring in living organisms
  • chronological — If things are described or shown in chronological order, they are described or shown in the order in which they happened.
  • chronologized — to arrange in chronological order.
  • churn molding — a molding decorated with chevrons.
  • circumvolving — Present participle of circumvolve.
  • city of light — Paris2
  • 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.
  • cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
  • click through — to navigate around (a website) using the links provided to move onto different pages
  • click-through — the act of clicking on an advertisement or other link to go to another website, especially a retail site: The store gets lots of clickthroughs from social media.
  • climatography — an account of a region's climate
  • climatologist — A climatologist is someone who studies climates.
  • climbing iron — either of a pair of metal frames with spikes that may be strapped over footgear, on the inside of the leg to aid in climbing trees, public utility poles, etc.
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • clinodiagonal — the diagonal axis of a monoclinic crystal
  • clonogenicity — (uncountable) The ability of a cell to form clones.
  • close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
  • closing costs — fees paid when buying a house
  • 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.
  • cloth binding — a type of binding in which a book is bound in stiff boards covered with cloth
  • cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
  • coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
  • coagulability — The ability to coagulate, of being coagulable.
  • coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
  • coat-trailing — provocative or contentious writing, speech, behavior, etc.
  • 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.
  • cohomological — of or relating to cohomology
  • cold moulding — the production of moulded articles from resins that polymerize chemically
  • collaborating — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
  • colleagueship — workplace companionship
  • college radio — radio broadcasting from stations affiliated with a college or university, often at a frequency below 92 MHz FM.
  • collieshangie — a quarrel
  • colligational — Relating to colligation.
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