13-letter words containing s, i, g
- categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
- 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.
- chang tso-lin — 1873–1928, Chinese general: military ruler of Manchuria 1918–28.
- 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
- chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
- chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
- 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.
- chinling shan — Qinling Shan
- chirographist — a person who studies or who is knowledgeable about handwriting styles
- 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.
- climbing fish — an Asian labyrinth fish, Anabas testudineus, that resembles a perch and can travel over land on its spiny gill covers and pectoral fins
- climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
- close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
- close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
- closing costs — fees paid when buying a house
- closing error — the amount by which a closed traverse fails to satisfy the requirements of a true mathematical figure, as the length of line joining the true and computed position of the same point.
- closing price — On the stock exchange, the closing price of a share is its price at the end of a day's business.
- cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
- coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
- coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
- cobol fingers — (jargon) /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
- cocarcinogens — Plural form of cocarcinogen.
- codeswitching — Alternative form of code-switching.
- colleagueship — workplace companionship
- collieshangie — a quarrel
- come to grips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
- commiserating — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
- commissioning — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
- commoditising — Present participle of commoditise.
- computerising — Present participle of computerise.
- condescending — If you say that someone is condescending, you are showing your disapproval of the fact that they talk or behave in a way which shows that they think they are superior to other people.
- confidingness — The state or quality of being confiding.
- confusingness — causing or tending to cause confusion: a confusing attempt at explanation.
- congenialness — The state or quality of being congenial.
- congregations — Plural form of congregation.
- congressional — A congressional policy, action, or person relates to the United States Congress.
- consanguineal — having the same ancestry or descent; related by blood.
- consanguinity — relationship by blood; kinship
- consideringly — in a considering manner