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13-letter words containing g, r, i, s

  • calligraphist — fancy penmanship, especially highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes: She appreciated the calligraphy of the 18th century.
  • carcinologist — a person who specializes in carcinology
  • cardiganshire — a former county of W Wales: became part of Dyfed in 1974; reinstated as Ceredigion in 1996
  • cardinal sign — any of the four astrological signs, Aries, Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn, that begin at the equinoxes and solstices, thus marking the beginning of the seasons: characterized by the attribute of strong initiative.
  • cardiologists — Plural form of cardiologist.
  • carrickfergus — a town in E Northern Ireland, in Carrickfergus district, Co Antrim; historic settlement of Scottish Protestants on Belfast Lough; Norman castle. Pop: 27 201 (2001)
  • cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
  • cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
  • casehardening — Present participle of caseharden.
  • cash register — A cash register is a machine in a shop, pub, or restaurant that is used to add up and record how much money people pay, and in which the money is kept.
  • casing hanger — A casing hanger is the part of a wellhead that supports the casing string.
  • casing string — A casing string is a series of lengths of steel pipe which are fitted together and put into a well.
  • categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
  • charing cross — a district of London, in the city of Westminster: the modern cross (1863) in front of Charing Cross railway station replaces the one erected by Edward I (1290), the last of twelve marking the route of the funeral procession of his queen, Eleanor
  • chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
  • chirographist — a person who studies or who is knowledgeable about handwriting styles
  • cigarette ash — the ash created by smoking a cigarette
  • cinema goers' — filmgoer.
  • circularising — Present participle of circularise.
  • circumambages — round-about methods
  • clear-sighted — If you describe someone as clear-sighted, you admire them because they are able to understand situations well and to make sensible judgments and decisions about them.
  • clearing sale — the auction of plant, stock, and effects of a country property, esp after the property has changed hands
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • come to grips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
  • commiserating — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
  • computerising — Present participle of computerise.
  • congregations — Plural form of congregation.
  • congressional — A congressional policy, action, or person relates to the United States Congress.
  • consideringly — in a considering manner
  • consternating — Present participle of consternate.
  • constringence — inverse of the dispersive power of a medium
  • contragestion — a form of contraception that can be used after fertilization of the ovum, preventing gestation
  • contragestive — able to prevent gestation
  • contrastingly — to compare in order to show unlikeness or differences; note the opposite natures, purposes, etc., of: Contrast the political rights of Romans and Greeks.
  • coral springs — city in SE Fla.: pop. 118,000
  • coralligenous — producing coral
  • coreligionist — an adherent of the same religion as another
  • corresponding — parallel; equivalent
  • cosignatories — Plural form of cosignatory.
  • cosmic string — a one-dimensional defect in space-time postulated in certain theories of cosmology to exist in the universe as a consequence of the big bang
  • cottage fries — potatoes that have been thinly sliced and then fried
  • couch surfing — to stay overnight in someone’s else’s home while traveling: He couch-surfed at the houses of strangers and friends.
  • countersigned — a sign used in reply to another sign.
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