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13-letter words containing i, g, n, o

  • cash holdings — the assets that you hold in ready cash, as opposed to property, shares, bonds, etc
  • casting couch — a couch on which a casting director is said to seduce women seeking a part in a film or play
  • chaise longue — A chaise longue is a kind of sofa with only one arm and usually a back along half its length.
  • chaise lounge — A chaise lounge is the same as a chaise longue.
  • chang tso-lin — 1873–1928, Chinese general: military ruler of Manchuria 1918–28.
  • changchiak'ou — Zhangjiakou.
  • changing room — A changing room is a room where you can change your clothes and usually have a shower, for example at a sports centre.
  • changing tone — cambiata.
  • changing-note — cambiata.
  • 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
  • chart-topping — very popular; coming top in the charts
  • checkpointing — Present participle of checkpoint.
  • chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
  • chloroforming — Present participle of chloroform.
  • cholangiogram — an X-ray of the bile duct performed after administering dye into the ducts that shows up on the X-ray
  • chronobiology — the branch of biology concerned with the periodicity occurring in living organisms
  • chronographic — a timepiece fitted with a recording device, as a stylus and rotating drum, used to mark the exact instant of an occurrence, especially in astronomy.
  • chronological — If things are described or shown in chronological order, they are described or shown in the order in which they happened.
  • chronologized — to arrange in chronological order.
  • chthonophagia — (disease) A disease characterized by the impulsive consumption of dirt, observed in some parts of the southern United States as well as the West Indies.
  • churn molding — a molding decorated with chevrons.
  • cinema goers' — filmgoer.
  • cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
  • circumvolving — Present participle of circumvolve.
  • 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 loan — a bank loan to finance the purchase of securities which is repayable within the calendar day on which it is made.
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • climbing iron — either of a pair of metal frames with spikes that may be strapped over footgear, on the inside of the leg to aid in climbing trees, public utility poles, etc.
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • clinodiagonal — the diagonal axis of a monoclinic crystal
  • clonogenicity — (uncountable) The ability of a cell to form clones.
  • close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
  • closing costs — fees paid when buying a house
  • 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.
  • cloth binding — a type of binding in which a book is bound in stiff boards covered with cloth
  • cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
  • coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
  • coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
  • coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
  • coat-trailing — provocative or contentious writing, speech, behavior, etc.
  • 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.
  • codeswitching — Alternative form of code-switching.
  • coffin dodger — an old person
  • cognitive map — a mental map of one's environment
  • cognomination — the process of giving a cognomen
  • cointegration — (mathematics) The condition of two non-stationary time series whose linear combination is stationary.
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