12-letter words containing r, p, g, i
- buying power — the amount of services or goods a company, person, group or currency is able to purchase
- buying spree — the hurried acquisition by a company, of goods, assets, or other companies
- buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
- calligraphed — Simple past tense and past participle of calligraph.
- calligrapher — A calligrapher is a person skilled in the art of calligraphy.
- calligraphic — fancy penmanship, especially highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes: She appreciated the calligraphy of the 18th century.
- camp springs — a city in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- camphorating — Present participle of camphorate.
- caparisoning — Present participle of caparison.
- cardiographs — Plural form of cardiograph.
- cardiography — electrocardiograph.
- 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
- carpentering — a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
- cartographic — Of or pertaining to the making of maps.
- chapter ring — a ringlike band on the dial of a clock that bears the numerals or other symbols of the hours.
- cheeseparing — penny-pinching; stingy
- chip carving — wood carving, usually executed with a knife and characterized by small incisions and simple geometrical patterns.
- chirographer — Alternative form of chirographist.
- chirographic — Of or relating to chirography.
- chorographic — Relating to chorography.
- cigar-shaped — resembling a cigar in shape
- circle graph — pie chart.
- clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
- co-parenting — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
- compromising — If you describe information or a situation as compromising, you mean that it reveals an embarrassing or guilty secret about someone.
- compurgation — (formerly) a method of trial whereby a defendant might be acquitted if a sufficient number of persons swore to his innocence
- conscripting — Present participle of conscript.
- coprocessing — the act of processing jointly
- coprophagist — a person who eats excrement
- copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- copyrighters — Plural form of copyrighter.
- copyrighting — Present participle of copyright.
- cosmographic — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
- cosponsoring — Present participle of cosponsor.
- craniography — examination of the skull as depicted by craniographs, photographs, and charts.
- crapehanging — the practice of hanging crape, esp as a sign of mourning
- crawling peg — a method of stabilizing exchange rates, prices, etc, by maintaining a fixed level for a specified period or until the level has persisted at an upper or lower limit for a specified period and then permitting a predetermined incremental rise or fall
- crazy paving — Crazy paving is pieces of stone of different shapes fitted together to make a path or flat area.
- criptography — (spelling) It's spelled "cryptography".
- crop dusting — Crop dusting is the spreading of pesticides on crops, usually from an aircraft.
- crop-dusting — the spraying of powdered fungicides or insecticides on crops, usually from an airplane.
- crossposting — Present participle of crosspost.
- cryptogamian — of or relating to cryptogams
- cryptogamist — a botanist specializing in the study of cryptogams
- cryptologist — cryptography.
- cyclographic — of or relating to a cyclograph
- danger point — the point at which something ceases to be safe
- day-tripping — to travel as a day-tripper.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- demographies — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.