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13-letter words containing l, a, e, g

  • cape marigold — any composite plant of the genus Dimorphotheca, having variously colored, daisylike flowers.
  • capsule range — a small range of clothes by a particular designer, intended to be representative of the full range
  • cardiomegalia — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
  • carnegie hall — a famous concert hall in New York (opened 1891); endowed by Andrew Carnegie
  • carriage bolt — a round-headed bolt for timber, threaded along part of its shank, inserted into holes already drilled.
  • cash dealings — transactions that are carried out using cash
  • 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.
  • categorically — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.
  • categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
  • categorizable — Capable of being categorized.
  • cattle plague — rinderpest.
  • cellar fungus — a fungus, Coniophora puteana, that causes dry rot in timber.
  • central angle — an angle whose vertex is at the centre of a circle
  • centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
  • 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.
  • challengeable — a call or summons to engage in any contest, as of skill, strength, etc.
  • challengingly — in a way that challenges or defies someone
  • changeability — liable to change or to be changed; variable.
  • changefulness — Propensity to change.
  • charcoal grey — a very dark grey colour
  • chargeability — that may or should be charged: chargeable duty.
  • chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
  • 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.
  • child rearing — the activity of rearing children
  • child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
  • chilean guava — a tropical shrub or small tree, Ugni molinae, of the myrtle family, having leathery, oval leaves, rose-pink flowers, and blue-black, edible fruit.
  • chlorargyrite — a mineral, the naturally occurring form of silver chloride, formed in the oxidation process of silver
  • cigar lighter — a small, portable implement containing fuel which produces a flame with which to light a cigarette
  • claiming race — a race in which each owner declares beforehand the price at which his or her horse will be offered for sale after the race
  • class meaning — the meaning of a grammatical category or a form class, common to all forms showing the category or to all members of the form class, as in the meaning of number common to all Latin nouns or the meaning of singular common to all Latin singular noun and verb forms.
  • cleaning lady — A cleaning lady is a woman who is employed to clean the rooms and furniture inside a building.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • clearing bank — The clearing banks are the main banks in Britain. Clearing banks use the central clearing house in London to deal with other banks.
  • clearing bath — any solution for removing material from the surface of a photographic image, as silver halide, metallic silver, or a dye or stain.
  • clearing loan — a bank loan to finance the purchase of securities which is repayable within the calendar day on which it is made.
  • clearing mark — either of a pair of landmarks or marks on a mariner's chart lying upon a line (clearing line) along which a vessel can sail to avoid navigational hazards.
  • clearing sale — the auction of plant, stock, and effects of a country property, esp after the property has changed hands
  • clearing-line — either of a pair of landmarks or marks on a mariner's chart lying upon a line (clearing line) along which a vessel can sail to avoid navigational hazards.
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
  • coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
  • coco language — (language)   (Cocol) A language for writing left-attributed LL1 grammars, used as the input language for the Coco LL1 parser generator, which produces Modula-2 table-driven parsers as output. Cocol-2 is a version for the Coco-2 generator. Cocol/R is an improvement over the original Cocol and Cocol-2.
  • colleagueship — workplace companionship
  • college radio — radio broadcasting from stations affiliated with a college or university, often at a frequency below 92 MHz FM.
  • collieshangie — a quarrel
  • conflagrative — That produces conflagration.
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