12-letter words containing g, r, o, s
- constructing — Present participle of construct.
- convergences — Plural form of convergence.
- conversating — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
- coprocessing — the act of processing jointly
- coprophagist — a person who eats excrement
- coprophagous — (esp of certain beetles) feeding on dung
- copyrighters — Plural form of copyrighter.
- coral fungus — any of a group of brightly colored fungi having erect, branching fruiting bodies that resemble coral.
- coral gables — a city in SE Florida, near Miami.
- core storage — a kind of computer memory consisting of storage units made of ferromagnetic rings
- cornhuskings — Plural form of cornhusking.
- coronagraphs — Plural form of coronagraph.
- corregidores — the chief magistrate of a town in Spain.
- corrugations — the act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated.
- corruscating — Present participle of corruscate.
- cosmographer — (astrophysics) A scientist specializing in understanding and describing the nature of the universe.
- cosmographic — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
- cosponsoring — Present participle of cosponsor.
- costermonger — a person who sells fruit, vegetables, etc, from a barrow
- cotton grass — any of various N temperate and arctic grasslike bog plants of the cyperaceous genus Eriophorum, whose clusters of long silky hairs resemble cotton tufts
- couchsurfing — Couchsurfing is the practice of sleeping at the houses of several different people for a period of time without paying.
- countersigns — Plural form of countersign.
- courageously — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
- craniologist — the science that deals with the size, shape, and other characteristics of human skulls.
- crescendoing — Music. a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force. a musical passage characterized by such an increase. the performance of a crescendo passage: The crescendo by the violins is too abrupt.
- crimson flag — a southern African plant, Schizostylis coccinea, of the iris family, having tubular red flowers.
- crop dusting — Crop dusting is the spreading of pesticides on crops, usually from an aircraft.
- crop-dusting — the spraying of powdered fungicides or insecticides on crops, usually from an airplane.
- cross-dating — a method of dating objects, remains, etc, by comparison and correlation with other sites and levels
- cross-garnet — a hinge with a long horizontal strap fixed to the face of a door and a short vertical leaf fixed to the door frame
- cross-legged — If someone is sitting cross-legged, they are sitting on the floor with their legs bent so that their knees point outwards.
- cross-string — overstring.
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossbarring — stripes, esp those of an animal
- crosscutting — a transverse cut or course.
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- crossposting — Present participle of crosspost.
- cryosurgical — of or relating to cryosurgery
- cryptogamist — a botanist specializing in the study of cryptogams
- cryptogamous — Of or pertaining to the cryptogams.
- cryptologist — cryptography.
- cryptozygous — having the skull broad and the face narrow.
- dead storage — the storage of furniture, files, or other unused or seldom used items in a warehouse or other location for an indefinite period of time.
- degradations — Plural form of degradation.
- demographers — Plural form of demographer.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- demographies — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
- demoralising — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- dendrologist — the branch of botany dealing with trees and shrubs.
- denigrations — Plural form of denigration.