13-letter words containing p, a, g
- capital gains — Capital gains are the profits that you make when you buy something and then sell it again at a higher price.
- capital goods — Capital goods are used to make other products. Compare consumer goods.
- capsule range — a small range of clothes by a particular designer, intended to be representative of the full range
- captivatingly — to attract and hold the attention or interest of, as by beauty or excellence; enchant: Her blue eyes and red hair captivated him.
- cardiographic — (physiology) Of or pertaining to, or produced by, a cardiograph.
- carpet knight — a soldier who spends his life away from battle; idler
- carpetbaggers — U.S. History. a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics, especially so as to profiteer from the unsettled social and political conditions of the area during Reconstruction.
- carpetbaggery — the practice of being a carpetbagger
- carpetbagging — relating to carpetbaggers or to the practice of carpetbaggers
- cartographers — Plural form of cartographer.
- cartridge pen — a pen having a removable ink reservoir that is replaced when empty
- cathodography — the process or practice of taking photographs using cathode rays
- cattle plague — rinderpest.
- cave painting — a painting done by prehistoric people in caves
- cervicography — a method of cervical screening in which the neck of the uterus is photographed to facilitate the early detection of cancer
- chart-topping — very popular; coming top in the charts
- chip graffiti — microchip art
- chirographist — a person who studies or who is knowledgeable about handwriting styles
- choreographed — You describe an activity involving several people as choreographed when it is arranged but is intended to appear natural.
- choreographer — A choreographer is someone who invents the movements for a ballet or other dance and tells the dancers how to perform them.
- choreographic — Choreographic means relating to or connected with choreography.
- chromatograph — a piece of equipment that provides the outcome of a chromatographic test
- chronographic — a timepiece fitted with a recording device, as a stylus and rotating drum, used to mark the exact instant of an occurrence, especially in astronomy.
- chthonophagia — (disease) A disease characterized by the impulsive consumption of dirt, observed in some parts of the southern United States as well as the West Indies.
- cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
- city planning — City planning is the planning and design of all the new buildings, roads, and parks in a place in order to make them attractive and convenient for the people who live there.
- claim-jumping — a person who seizes another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights.
- climatography — an account of a region's climate
- cognitive map — a mental map of one's environment
- colleagueship — workplace companionship
- compagination — a union or act of joining
- company grade — military rank applying to army officers below major, as second and first lieutenants and captains.
- complainingly — In a complaining manner; peevishly.
- compsognathus — any bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Compsognathus, of late Jurassic age, having a slender body that reached a length of 30 inches (76 cm).
- computer game — A computer game is a game that you play on a computer or on a small portable piece of electronic equipment.
- concord grape — a variety of grape with purple-black fruit covered with a bluish bloom
- contemplating — to think studiously; meditate; consider deliberately.
- contents page — the page in a book that shows the table of contents
- contracepting — to prevent the conception of (offspring).
- copy negative — master (def 21).
- copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
- coral springs — city in SE Fla.: pop. 118,000
- coronagraphic — Of, pertaining to, or employing a coronagraph.
- cottage piano — a small upright piano
- cottage tulip — a late-flowering type of tulip, usually having pointed or elongated flowers.
- coup de grace — A coup de grace is an action or event which finally destroys something, for example an institution, which has been gradually growing weaker.
- court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
- crash program — a plan of action entailing rapid and intensive production, growth, or the like, undertaken to meet a deadline or solve a pressing problem: a crash program to develop a new fighter plane.
- creep-grazing — a method of pasture management that allows young farm animals (esp lambs) to graze part of the pasture before the adults in the group
- crepe bandage — a bandage made of light cotton crepe