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13-letter words containing g, s, t, a

  • calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
  • calligraphist — fancy penmanship, especially highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes: She appreciated the calligraphy of the 18th century.
  • campanologist — the principles or art of making bells, bell ringing, etc.
  • camping stool — a stool which is suitable for use in temporary quarters, on holiday, etc, esp by being portable and easy to set up
  • camping stove — a portable stove powered by butane gas canisters, designed to be used for cooking while camping
  • capital gains — Capital gains are the profits that you make when you buy something and then sell it again at a higher price.
  • capital goods — Capital goods are used to make other products. Compare consumer goods.
  • carcinologist — a person who specializes in carcinology
  • cardiologists — Plural form of cardiologist.
  • carpetbaggers — U.S. History. a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics, especially so as to profiteer from the unsettled social and political conditions of the area during Reconstruction.
  • cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
  • cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
  • cartographers — Plural form of cartographer.
  • 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 string — A casing string is a series of lengths of steel pipe which are fitted together and put into a well.
  • casting couch — a couch on which a casting director is said to seduce women seeking a part in a film or play
  • casting wheel — a wheel having on its circumference molds for receiving molten metal.
  • catalog verse — verse made by compiling long lists of everyday objects, names, or events, united by a common theme and often didactic in tone.
  • categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
  • cerynean stag — a stag living in Arcadia, captured by Hercules as one of his labors.
  • chang tso-lin — 1873–1928, Chinese general: military ruler of Manchuria 1918–28.
  • cheese grater — an implement for grating cheese
  • chicago steak — a strip steak or, sometimes, a shell steak.
  • 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.
  • chirographist — a person who studies or who is knowledgeable about handwriting styles
  • chromatograms — Plural form of chromatogram.
  • cigarette ash — the ash created by smoking a cigarette
  • 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.
  • cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
  • climatologist — A climatologist is someone who studies climates.
  • coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
  • colostomy bag — a bag that is attached to the surgical opening from the colon onto the surface of the body and into which faecal matter passes
  • commiserating — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
  • compsognathus — any bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Compsognathus, of late Jurassic age, having a slender body that reached a length of 30 inches (76 cm).
  • conglomerates — anything composed of heterogeneous materials or elements.
  • congratulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of congratulate.
  • congregations — Plural form of congregation.
  • conjugateness — The quality of being conjugate.
  • consanguinity — relationship by blood; kinship
  • consolidating — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
  • consternating — Present participle of consternate.
  • contents page — the page in a book that shows the table of contents
  • 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.
  • cosignatories — Plural form of cosignatory.
  • costardmonger — a costermonger
  • cottage fries — potatoes that have been thinly sliced and then fried
  • count against — If something counts against you, it may cause you to be rejected or punished, or cause people to have a lower opinion of you.
  • crosshatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
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