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14-letter words containing g, r, o, s, c

  • congressperson — A Congressperson is a member of the US Congress, especially of the House of Representatives.
  • 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
  • contemporising — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
  • coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
  • coreligionists — Plural form of coreligionist.
  • cosmographical — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
  • 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.
  • country singer — a singer of country and western music
  • courageousness — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
  • courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
  • 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
  • cross-dressing — the wearing of clothes normally associated with the opposite sex
  • cross-gartered — (in Elizabethan and other costumes) wearing garters crisscrossed on the leg.
  • cross-hatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
  • cross-indexing — to provide with cross references or with a cross-referenced index.
  • crossing guard — school (crossing) guard
  • crossing point — a place where people cross a road, border, or river
  • cryopreserving — Present participle of cryopreserve.
  • cryptographers — Plural form of cryptographer.
  • cryptographist — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
  • crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
  • cuprotungstite — (mineral) A tetragonal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and tungsten.
  • cycling shorts — tight-fitting shorts reaching partway to the knee for cycling, sport, etc
  • deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.
  • deconstructing — Present participle of deconstruct.
  • discographical — Of or pertaining to discography.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • driving school — vehicle operation lessons
  • electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
  • electrogenesis — (biochemistry, physics) The production of electricity in the tissues of a living organism.
  • electrologists — Plural form of electrologist.
  • electromagnets — Plural form of electromagnet.
  • electrosurgery — Surgery using a high-frequency electric current to heat and so cut tissue with great precision.
  • emergency stop — a sudden application of the brakes in a car, such as the driver would need to carry out in an emergency
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