12-letter words containing n, a, u, g
- bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
- burning ghat — a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.
- burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
- bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
- calumniating — Present participle of calumniate.
- camouflaging — Present participle of camouflage.
- capitulating — Present participle of capitulate.
- card surfing — a form of cash-card fraud in which one person watches another using a cash dispenser, notes his or her personal identification number, and, after an accomplice has stolen the card, uses the card to withdraw cash
- caricaturing — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
- caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
- centrifugate — the denser of the centrifuged materials.
- ch'ang ch'un — (Ch'ang Ch'un) 1148–1227, Chinese Taoist philosopher and author.
- chandragupta — Greek name Sandracottos. died ?297 bc, ruler of N India, who founded the Maurya dynasty (325) and defeated Seleucus (?305)
- changchiakou — Zhangjiakou
- change purse — A change purse is a very small bag that people, especially women, keep their money in.
- change round — to place in or adopt a different or opposite position
- changearound — the act of changing to a different position
- charge nurse — A charge nurse is a nurse who is in charge of a hospital ward.
- chauffeuring — Present participle of chauffeur.
- chincoteague — a town on a small island in a lagoon (Chincoteague Bay) in E Virginia: annual wild pony roundup.
- chinhuangtao — a seaport in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Bohai.
- chota nagpur — a plateau in E India, mainly in Jharkhand state since 2000: forested, with rich mineral resources and much heavy industry; produces chiefly lac (world's leading supplier), coal (half India's total output), and mica
- chukot range — mountain range in NE Siberia: highest peak, c. 7,500 ft (2,286 m)
- chump change — Slang. a small or insignificant amount of money.
- cip language — language> (CIP-L, Computer-aided Intuition-guided Programming Language) A wide-spectrum language for incremental program transformation. There are ALGOL- and Pascal-like variants.
- citrangequat — A trigenic hybrid cross of two types of orange and a kumquat.
- clangorously — In a clangorous manner; ringingly.
- clearcutting — the act of felling all trees in area
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- compurgation — (formerly) a method of trial whereby a defendant might be acquitted if a sufficient number of persons swore to his innocence
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- configurated — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
- configurator — an item of software that enables or assists in the configuration of a product
- conglobulate — to form into a globe or ball
- conglutinant — (of the edges of a wound or fracture) promoting union; adhesive
- conglutinate — to cause (the edges of a wound or fracture) to join during the process of healing or (of the edges of a wound or fracture) to join during this process
- congratulant — expressing congratulation
- congratulate — If you congratulate someone, you say something to show you are pleased that something nice has happened to them.
- congruential — (mathematics) That uses congruency (division by a modulus).
- conjugations — Plural form of conjugation.
- consanguined — Of kindred blood; related.
- consummating — Present participle of consummate.
- contagiously — capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object: contagious diseases.
- coral fungus — any of a group of brightly colored fungi having erect, branching fruiting bodies that resemble coral.
- corrugations — the act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated.
- corruscating — Present participle of corruscate.
- counteragent — a person or thing that counteracts
- counterargue — to argue against something
- counterimage — a corresponding image
- county agent — a government employee who gives advice on agriculture in a rural area