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12-letter words containing o, r, c, a, g

  • 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.
  • coprophagist — a person who eats excrement
  • coprophagous — (esp of certain beetles) feeding on dung
  • copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
  • coral fungus — any of a group of brightly colored fungi having erect, branching fruiting bodies that resemble coral.
  • coral gables — a city in SE Florida, near Miami.
  • corbie gable — a gable having corbie-steps
  • core drawing — drawing of fine tubing using wire as a mandrel.
  • core gateway — Historically, one of a set of gateways (routers) operated by the Internet Network Operations Center at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). The core gateway system formed a central part of Internet routing in that all groups must advertise paths to their networks from a core gateway.
  • core storage — a kind of computer memory consisting of storage units made of ferromagnetic rings
  • coronagraphs — Plural form of coronagraph.
  • corrugations — the act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated.
  • corruscating — Present participle of corruscate.
  • corticofugal — (of a nerve fiber) originating in and running from the cerebral cortex.
  • cosmographer — (astrophysics) A scientist specializing in understanding and describing the nature of the universe.
  • cosmographic — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
  • cottage roll — a small pickled boneless ham
  • 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
  • counteragent — a person or thing that counteracts
  • counterargue — to argue against something
  • counterimage — a corresponding image
  • courageously — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
  • cover charge — A cover charge is a sum of money that you must pay in some restaurants and nightclubs in addition to the money that you pay there for your food and drink.
  • 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.
  • crimson flag — a southern African plant, Schizostylis coccinea, of the iris family, having tubular red flowers.
  • criptography — (spelling)   It's spelled "cryptography".
  • cross-dating — a method of dating objects, remains, etc, by comparison and correlation with other sites and levels
  • cross-garnet — a hinge with a long horizontal strap fixed to the face of a door and a short vertical leaf fixed to the door frame
  • crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
  • crossbarring — stripes, esp those of an animal
  • crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
  • cryosurgical — of or relating to cryosurgery
  • cryptogamian — of or relating to cryptogams
  • cryptogamist — a botanist specializing in the study of cryptogams
  • cryptogamous — Of or pertaining to the cryptogams.
  • cryptography — the science or study of analysing and deciphering codes, ciphers, etc; cryptanalysis
  • cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
  • cyclographic — of or relating to a cyclograph
  • dancing frog — (programming, humour)   A bug or glitch that only occurs for a particular user; never when the user tries to show it to anyone else. The term is derived from a Warner Brothers cartoon in which a man discovers a frog which can sing and dance; he believes this will make his fortune but the frog never performs in front of anyone else.
  • decategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
  • dermatologic — Dermatologic means of or relating to the skin.
  • dermographic — dermatographia.
  • diageotropic — (of a plant part) growing at a right angle to the direction of gravity.
  • diego garcia — chief island of the Chagos Archipelago, British Indian Ocean Territory: 17 sq mi (44 sq km)
  • discographer — a person who compiles discographies.
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