13-letter words containing r, i, n, g
- bully-ragging — to bully; harass: to bullyrag fraternity plebs.
- burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
- burning glass — a convex lens for concentrating the sun's rays into a small area to produce heat or fire
- burrowing owl — a ground owl (Athene cunicularia) of the prairie regions of North and South America having long legs and a small head: it makes its nest in abandoned burrows
- bus mastering — bus master
- butterfingers — a person who drops things inadvertently or fails to catch things
- cadmium green — a pigment used in painting, consisting of a mixture of hydrated oxide of chromium with cadmium sulfide, and characterized by its strong green color and slow drying rate.
- camp-drafting — a competitive test, esp at an agricultural show, of horsemen's skill in drafting cattle
- camping chair — a chair which is suitable for use in temporary quarters, on holiday, etc, esp by being portable and easy to set up
- candlelighter — a person whose task it is to light candles
- cantilevering — Present participle of cantilever.
- canton ginger — preserved or crystallized ginger of fine quality.
- carbo-loading — Informal. carbohydrate loading.
- carbon dating — Carbon dating is a system of calculating the age of a very old object by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon it contains.
- carcinologist — a person who specializes in carcinology
- card clothing — a very sturdy fabric with a leather or rubber fillet imbedded with wire teeth for disentangling and cleaning textile fibers, used to cover the rollers or flats of a carding machine.
- card-carrying — A card-carrying member of a particular group or political party is an official member of that group or party, rather than someone who supports it.
- cardiganshire — a former county of W Wales: became part of Dyfed in 1974; reinstated as Ceredigion in 1996
- cardinal sign — any of the four astrological signs, Aries, Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn, that begin at the equinoxes and solstices, thus marking the beginning of the seasons: characterized by the attribute of strong initiative.
- cariogenicity — conducive to the production or promotion of dental caries: the cariogenic factors in sweets.
- carnegie hall — a famous concert hall in New York (opened 1891); endowed by Andrew Carnegie
- carnegie unit — a standardized unit of measurement for evaluating courses in secondary schools in terms of college entrance requirements, representing one year's study in any subject, that subject having been taught for a minimum of 120 classroom hours to qualify.
- carnot engine — an engine using a Carnot cycle of operations.
- carpet knight — a soldier who spends his life away from battle; idler
- carpetbagging — relating to carpetbaggers or to the practice of carpetbaggers
- cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
- cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
- cartridge pen — a pen having a removable ink reservoir that is replaced when empty
- carving knife — A carving knife is a long sharp knife that is used to cut cooked meat.
- casehardening — Present participle of caseharden.
- casing hanger — A casing hanger is the part of a wellhead that supports the casing string.
- casing string — A casing string is a series of lengths of steel pipe which are fitted together and put into a well.
- catheterizing — Present participle of catheterize.
- cedar waxwing — a brownish-gray, crested American waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum), with red, waxlike tips on its secondary wing feathers
- ceiling price — the top price
- centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
- centrifugence — the property of being centrifugal
- changing room — A changing room is a room where you can change your clothes and usually have a shower, for example at a sports centre.
- charing cross — a district of London, in the city of Westminster: the modern cross (1863) in front of Charing Cross railway station replaces the one erected by Edward I (1290), the last of twelve marking the route of the funeral procession of his queen, Eleanor
- chart-topping — very popular; coming top in the charts
- chickenburger — A hot sandwich made of a patty of chicken in a bun, often with other ingredients.
- child rearing — the activity of rearing children
- child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
- chloroforming — Present participle of chloroform.
- cholangiogram — an X-ray of the bile duct performed after administering dye into the ducts that shows up on the X-ray
- chronobiology — the branch of biology concerned with the periodicity occurring in living organisms
- 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.
- chronological — If things are described or shown in chronological order, they are described or shown in the order in which they happened.
- chronologized — to arrange in chronological order.
- churn molding — a molding decorated with chevrons.