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

  • counterweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counterweigh.
  • countinghouse — a building, room, or office used for keeping books and transacting business
  • cousin-german — the child of one's aunt or uncle
  • crash landing — aircraft: emergency descent
  • criminalising — Present participle of criminalise.
  • criminologist — the study of crime and criminals: a branch of sociology.
  • crisscrossing — crossing over each other
  • crop spraying — the spraying of crops with insecticide, fungicide, etc
  • cross bedding — layering within one or more beds in a series of rock strata that does not run parallel to the plane of stratification
  • cross-cutting — linking traditionally separate or independent parties or interests
  • cross-footing — Accounting. to total figures horizontally across columns instead of vertically.
  • cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
  • cross-posting — the sending of an email to many forums, mailing lists, etc
  • cross-selling — to sell or try to sell (similar or related products or services) to an existing customer.
  • crossbreeding — Present participle of crossbreed.
  • crosschecking — Present participle of crosscheck.
  • crossdressing — to dress in clothing typically worn by members of the opposite sex.
  • crosshatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
  • crossing over — the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the diplotene stage of meiosis. It results in the rearrangement of genes and produces variation in the inherited characteristics of the offspring
  • crowd surfing — the practice of being passed over the top of a crowd of people such as an audience at a pop concert
  • crowdsourcing — Crowdsourcing is the practice of getting ideas or help on a project from a large number of people, usually through the Internet.
  • crystallizing — Present participle of crystallize.
  • cucking stool — stool in which suspected witches were tested
  • cunnilinguist — One who gives cunnilingus.
  • cupping glass — a glass vessel from which air can be removed by suction or heat to create a partial vacuum: formerly used in drawing blood to the surface of the skin for slow bloodletting
  • curling irons — a metal scissor-like device that is heated, so that strands of hair may be twined around it in order to form curls
  • curling stone — a large, heavy, ellipsoidal stone or a similar object made of iron, usually having one rough side and one smooth side with a hole in the center of each for screwing in a handle by which the stone is released, for use in the game of curling.
  • curling tongs — a metal scissor-like device that is heated, so that strands of hair may be twined around it in order to form curls
  • cutting horse — a saddle horse trained for use in separating an individual animal, such as a cow, from a herd
  • cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
  • cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
  • cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
  • cytodiagnosis — the diagnosis of disease through the study of cells in the body
  • dancing class — a meeting of a group of student dancers for tuition in dancing
  • dancing shoes — shoes worn by dancers
  • danger signal — any type of signal that indicates danger
  • dangleberries — Plural form of dangleberry.
  • darling downs — a plateau in NE Australia, in SE Queensland: a vast agricultural and stock-raising area
  • das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
  • data striping — (storage)   Segmentation of logically sequential data, such as a single file, so that segments can be written to multiple physical devices (usually disk drives) in a round-robin fashion. This technique is useful if the processor is capable of reading or writing data faster than a single disk can supply or accept it. While data is being transferred from the first disk, the second disk can locate the next segment. Data striping is used in some modern databases, such as Sybase, and in certain RAID devices under hardware control, such as IBM's RAMAC array subsystem (9304/9395). Data striping is different from, and may be used in conjunction with, mirroring.
  • declassifying — Present participle of declassify.
  • decompressing — Present participle of decompress.
  • deemphasizing — Present participle of deemphasize.
  • delightedness — The quality of being delighted; great pleasure.
  • demandingness — the quality of being demanding
  • demonstrating — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
  • dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
  • depressogenic — Causing or tending to cause depression.
  • desacralizing — Present participle of desacralize.
  • desegregating — Present participle of desegregate.
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