12-letter words containing i, r, s, g
- cheeseparing — penny-pinching; stingy
- chhattisgarh — a state of E central India, created from the SE part of Madhya Pradesh in 2000: consists of a hilly plateau, with extensive forests; agricultural. Capital: Raipur. Pop: 20 795 956 (2001). Area: 135 194 sq km (52 199 sq miles)
- chiliburgers — Plural form of chiliburger.
- chirognomist — someone who studies chirognomy
- chitterlings — the intestines of a pig or other animal prepared as a dish
- choreologist — a person who is expert in choreology
- christenings — Plural form of christening.
- chronologies — Plural form of chronology.
- chronologise — Alternative spelling of chronologize.
- chronologist — a person versed in chronology.
- cigar-shaped — resembling a cigar in shape
- circumcising — Present participle of circumcise.
- circumfusing — Present participle of circumfuse.
- cirrus logic — (company) A manufacturer of integrated circuits including the Advanced RISC Machine and display interface processors and cards for use as Windows accelerators (requiring dedicated driver software).
- civil rights — Civil rights are the rights that people have in a society to equal treatment and equal opportunities, whatever their race, sex, or religion.
- clam diggers — casual pants that end slightly below the knee.
- clam-diggers — calf-length trousers
- clearsighted — seeing clearly
- cliffhangers — Plural form of cliffhanger.
- closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
- coarse grain — granularity
- code-sharing — a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows passengers to use a ticket from one airline to travel on another
- compromising — If you describe information or a situation as compromising, you mean that it reveals an embarrassing or guilty secret about someone.
- congruencies — congruence.
- conscripting — Present participle of conscript.
- consecrating — Present participle of consecrate.
- conservating — Present participle of conservate.
- consignatory — a cosignatory
- constraining — Present participle of constrain.
- constricting — inhibiting; limiting
- constringent — constricting.
- constructing — Present participle of construct.
- conversating — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
- coprocessing — the act of processing jointly
- coprophagist — a person who eats excrement
- copyrighters — Plural form of copyrighter.
- cornhuskings — Plural form of cornhusking.
- 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.
- cosmographic — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
- cosponsoring — Present participle of cosponsor.
- 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.
- craniologist — the science that deals with the size, shape, and other characteristics of human skulls.
- crazy eights — a card game played by two or more persons with a 52-card deck, the object of which is to be the first to get rid of one's hand by successively playing a card of the same suit or denomination as that played by the preceding player, with an eight counting for any desired suit.
- 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.