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13-letter words containing g, r, e, n

  • child rearing — the activity of rearing children
  • child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
  • chronologized — to arrange in chronological order.
  • cider vinegar — a type of vinegar produced by the acetification of cider
  • cigarette end — the part of a cigarette that is held in the mouth and that remains unsmoked after it is finished
  • cinema goers' — filmgoer.
  • cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
  • circumflexing — Present participle of circumflex.
  • circumventing — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • claiming race — a race in which each owner declares beforehand the price at which his or her horse will be offered for sale after the race
  • 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 bank — The clearing banks are the main banks in Britain. Clearing banks use the central clearing house in London to deal with other banks.
  • clearing bath — any solution for removing material from the surface of a photographic image, as silver halide, metallic silver, or a dye or stain.
  • clearing loan — a bank loan to finance the purchase of securities which is repayable within the calendar day on which it is made.
  • clearing mark — either of a pair of landmarks or marks on a mariner's chart lying upon a line (clearing line) along which a vessel can sail to avoid navigational hazards.
  • clearing sale — the auction of plant, stock, and effects of a country property, esp after the property has changed hands
  • clearing-line — either of a pair of landmarks or marks on a mariner's chart lying upon a line (clearing line) along which a vessel can sail to avoid navigational hazards.
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • climbing fern — any of several chiefly tropical, vinelike ferns of the genus Lygodium, having climbing or trailing stems.
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
  • 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.
  • coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
  • 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.
  • cocarcinogens — Plural form of cocarcinogen.
  • coffin dodger — an old person
  • cogent prolog — (language)   A full Edinburgh standard Prolog with debugger, listener, DCG, many built-ins, text windows, support for modules, and support for both 16-bit and 32-bit protected mode. Contact: Dennis C. Merritt.
  • cointegration — (mathematics) The condition of two non-stationary time series whose linear combination is stationary.
  • cologne brown — Vandyke brown.
  • commandeering — Present participle of commandeer.
  • commemorating — Present participle of commemorate.
  • commiserating — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
  • common gender — in English, a noun that is the same whether it is referring to either gender, such as cat, people, spouse.
  • company grade — military rank applying to army officers below major, as second and first lieutenants and captains.
  • comprehending — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
  • computerising — Present participle of computerise.
  • computerizing — Present participle of computerize.
  • concentrating — Present participle of concentrate.
  • concert grand — a full-size grand piano, usually around 7 feet in length
  • concertgebouw — a concert hall in Amsterdam, inaugurated in 1888: the Concertgebouw Orchestra established in 1888, has been independent of the hall since World War II
  • concertinaing — Present participle of concertina.
  • concord grape — a variety of grape with purple-black fruit covered with a bluish bloom
  • confederating — Present participle of confederate.
  • configurative — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • conflagrative — That produces conflagration.
  • congeneration — Simultaneous generation (as of heat and light from the same action).
  • conglomerated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglomerate.
  • conglomerates — anything composed of heterogeneous materials or elements.
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