13-letter words containing s, a, g, e, c
- catalog verse — verse made by compiling long lists of everyday objects, names, or events, united by a common theme and often didactic in tone.
- categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
- cellar fungus — a fungus, Coniophora puteana, that causes dry rot in timber.
- cerynean stag — a stag living in Arcadia, captured by Hercules as one of his labors.
- chaise longue — A chaise longue is a kind of sofa with only one arm and usually a back along half its length.
- chaise lounge — A chaise lounge is the same as a chaise longue.
- changefulness — Propensity to change.
- chasse gardee — a private hunting preserve.
- cheese grater — an implement for grating cheese
- chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
- chicago steak — a strip steak or, sometimes, a shell steak.
- chicago style — a style of jazz flourishing in Chicago especially in the early 1920s, constituting a direct offshoot of New Orleans style, and differing from its predecessor chiefly in the diminished influence of native folk sources, the greater tension of its group improvisation, the increased emphasis on solos, and the regular use of the tenor saxophone as part of the ensemble.
- cigarette ash — the ash created by smoking a cigarette
- cinema goers' — filmgoer.
- circumambages — round-about methods
- class meaning — the meaning of a grammatical category or a form class, common to all forms showing the category or to all members of the form class, as in the meaning of number common to all Latin nouns or the meaning of singular common to all Latin singular noun and verb forms.
- clear-sighted — If you describe someone as clear-sighted, you admire them because they are able to understand situations well and to make sensible judgments and decisions about them.
- clearing sale — the auction of plant, stock, and effects of a country property, esp after the property has changed hands
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
- close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
- coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
- coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
- cocarcinogens — Plural form of cocarcinogen.
- colleagueship — workplace companionship
- collieshangie — a quarrel
- commiserating — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
- congenialness — The state or quality of being congenial.
- conglomerates — anything composed of heterogeneous materials or elements.
- congratulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of congratulate.
- congregations — Plural form of congregation.
- congressional — A congressional policy, action, or person relates to the United States Congress.
- congresswoman — A Congresswoman is a female member of the US Congress, especially of the House of Representatives.
- conjugateness — The quality of being conjugate.
- consanguineal — having the same ancestry or descent; related by blood.
- consternating — Present participle of consternate.
- contents page — the page in a book that shows the table of contents
- contragestion — a form of contraception that can be used after fertilization of the ovum, preventing gestation
- contragestive — able to prevent gestation
- coralligenous — producing coral
- cosignatories — Plural form of cosignatory.
- costardmonger — a costermonger
- cottage fries — potatoes that have been thinly sliced and then fried
- cousin-german — the child of one's aunt or uncle
- cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
- crustaceology — The branch of zoology dealing with crustaceans.
- cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
- cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
- cytopharynges — Plural form of cytopharynx.
- dancing shoes — shoes worn by dancers