13-letter words containing s, c, a, g
- chirographist — a person who studies or who is knowledgeable about handwriting styles
- chromatograms — Plural form of chromatogram.
- cigarette ash — the ash created by smoking a cigarette
- cinema goers' — filmgoer.
- circularising — Present participle of circularise.
- 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
- climatologist — A climatologist is someone who studies climates.
- 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
- colostomy bag — a bag that is attached to the surgical opening from the colon onto the surface of the body and into which faecal matter passes
- commiserating — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
- 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).
- 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.
- consanguinity — relationship by blood; kinship
- consolidating — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- 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
- contrastingly — to compare in order to show unlikeness or differences; note the opposite natures, purposes, etc., of: Contrast the political rights of Romans and Greeks.
- coral springs — city in SE Fla.: pop. 118,000
- coralligenous — producing coral
- cosignatories — Plural form of cosignatory.
- costardmonger — a costermonger
- cottage fries — potatoes that have been thinly sliced and then fried
- count against — If something counts against you, it may cause you to be rejected or punished, or cause people to have a lower opinion of you.
- cousin-german — the child of one's aunt or uncle
- crash landing — aircraft: emergency descent
- 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.
- criminalising — Present participle of criminalise.
- crop spraying — the spraying of crops with insecticide, fungicide, etc
- cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
- crosshatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
- crustaceology — The branch of zoology dealing with crustaceans.