14-letter words containing i, n, c, o, g
- cotton batting — cotton wadding, as used in quilt making
- cotton-picking — Cotton-picking is used by some people to emphasize what they are saying.
- cough medicine — Cough medicine is liquid medicine that you take when you have a cough.
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- counterfeiting — the making of fraudulent copies; forgery
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
- 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.
- countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
- counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
- counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
- counting house — a room or building used by the accountants of a business
- country singer — a singer of country and western music
- courting chair — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
- covering power — the maximum area of a scene that can be recorded with good definition by a particular lens.
- crimean gothic — a form of the Gothic language that survived in the Crimea after the extinction of Gothic elsewhere in Europe, known only from a list of words and phrases recorded in the 16th century.
- criminological — the study of crime and criminals: a branch of sociology.
- 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-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
- crowning glory — the greatest achievement
- cryopreserving — Present participle of cryopreserve.
- cult following — the admiration that is felt by a particular group for a film, book, band, etc
- cuprotungstite — (mineral) A tetragonal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and tungsten.
- cyanoguanidine — dicyandiamide.
- cycling shorts — tight-fitting shorts reaching partway to the knee for cycling, sport, etc
- cytogeneticist — One who studies cytogenetics.
- cytopathogenic — causing cytopathy
- dead reckoning — a method of establishing one's position using the distance and direction travelled rather than astronomical observations
- decisionmaking — Alternative form of decision making.
- decompensating — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- deconditioning — Present participle of decondition.
- deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.
- deconstructing — Present participle of deconstruct.
- depoliticising — Present participle of depoliticise.
- depoliticizing — Present participle of depoliticize.
- diagnostically — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- diagonal cloth — a twilled fabric woven with distinctly diagonal lines.
- disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
- disassociating — to dissociate.