12-letter words containing o, g, n, r
- congregating — Present participle of congregate.
- congregation — The people who are attending a church service or who regularly attend a church service are referred to as the congregation.
- congruencies — congruence.
- congruential — (mathematics) That uses congruency (division by a modulus).
- conjecturing — the formation or expression of an opinion or theory without sufficient evidence for proof.
- conqueringly — in a conquering manner
- 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.
- contravening — to come or be in conflict with; go or act against; deny or oppose: to contravene a statement.
- contributing — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- convent girl — a girl who goes to or has been to a convent school
- convergences — Plural form of convergence.
- convergently — characterized by convergence; tending to come together; merging.
- conversating — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
- cook-general — (formerly, esp in the 1920s and '30s) a domestic servant who did cooking and housework
- cooling rack — a wire frame used for cooling food on
- coordinating — Present participle of coordinate.
- coprocessing — the act of processing jointly
- copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- copyrighting — Present participle of copyright.
- coral fungus — any of a group of brightly colored fungi having erect, branching fruiting bodies that resemble coral.
- core drawing — drawing of fine tubing using wire as a mandrel.
- corn bunting — a heavily built European songbird, Emberiza calandra, with a streaked brown plumage: family Emberizidae (buntings)
- cornhuskings — Plural form of cornhusking.
- coronagraphs — Plural form of coronagraph.
- corrugations — the act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated.
- corruscating — Present participle of corruscate.
- cosponsoring — Present participle of cosponsor.
- costermonger — a person who sells fruit, vegetables, etc, from a barrow
- cotton grass — any of various N temperate and arctic grasslike bog plants of the cyperaceous genus Eriophorum, whose clusters of long silky hairs resemble cotton tufts
- couchsurfing — Couchsurfing is the practice of sleeping at the houses of several different people for a period of time without paying.
- counteragent — a person or thing that counteracts
- counterargue — to argue against something
- counterimage — a corresponding image
- counterlight — a light opposite something, such as a painting, that negatively affects the appearance of that object
- countersigns — Plural form of countersign.
- counterweigh — counterbalance
- court ruling — a decision made by a court
- cover ground — to move or traverse a certain distance
- craniography — examination of the skull as depicted by craniographs, photographs, and charts.
- craniologist — the science that deals with the size, shape, and other characteristics of human skulls.
- 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.
- criminogenic — causing or promoting crime
- crimson flag — a southern African plant, Schizostylis coccinea, of the iris family, having tubular red flowers.