12-letter words containing o, r, g, e, l
- bowdlerizing — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
- cabriole leg — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- cape ortegal — a cape in NW Spain, projecting into the Bay of Biscay
- cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
- cardioplegia — deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out
- categorially — in a manner relating to or involving categories
- ceiling rose — decorative plaster centrepiece
- change color — to become pale
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
- chirurgeonly — in the manner of a surgeon
- choreologist — a person who is expert in choreology
- chronologies — Plural form of chronology.
- chronologise — Alternative spelling of chronologize.
- chronologize — to arrange in an order determined by when events took place
- cigar flower — the common name for a small, shrubby plant, Cuphea ignea, of the loosestrife family, native to Mexico and Jamaica, grown as an ornamental and houseplant: named for its red tubular flowers that resemble cigars.
- cigar holder — a mouthpiece of wood, ivory, etc, used for holding a cigar while it is smoked
- clergyperson — a member of the clergy
- closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
- cobalt green — a medium, yellowish-green color.
- cold storage — If something such as food is put in cold storage, it is kept in an artificially-cooled place in order to preserve it.
- college park — a city in N Georgia.
- 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.
- conflagrated — Simple past tense and past participle of conflagrate.
- congenerical — congeneric
- conger (eel) — any of a family (Congridae, order Anguilliformes) of large saltwater eels, with a long dorsal fin, sharp teeth, and powerful jaws; esp., any of an edible genus (Conger) of eels
- conglomerate — A conglomerate is a large business firm consisting of several different companies.
- 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).
- conqueringly — in a conquering manner
- convent girl — a girl who goes to or has been to a convent school
- convergently — characterized by convergence; tending to come together; merging.
- cook-general — (formerly, esp in the 1920s and '30s) a domestic servant who did cooking and housework
- coral gables — a city in SE Florida, near Miami.
- corbie gable — a gable having corbie-steps
- cottage roll — a small pickled boneless ham
- counterlight — a light opposite something, such as a painting, that negatively affects the appearance of that object
- courageously — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
- cross-legged — If someone is sitting cross-legged, they are sitting on the floor with their legs bent so that their knees point outwards.
- curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- dealing room — A dealing room is a place where shares, currencies, or commodities are bought and sold.
- deflagration — Deflagration is an explosion in which the speed of burning is lower than the speed of sound in the surroundings.
- deglamorized — Simple past tense and past participle of deglamorize.
- degringolade — a rapid descent or deterioration
- delta-prolog — A Prolog extension with AND-parallelism, don't-know nondeterminism and interprocess communication using synchronous event goals and distributed backtracking.
- demoralising — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- demoralizing — If something is demoralizing, it makes you lose so much confidence in what you are doing that you want to give up.
- dendrologist — the branch of botany dealing with trees and shrubs.