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13-letter words containing ge

  • cascade range — a chain of mountains in the US and Canada: a continuation of the Sierra Nevada range from N California through Oregon and Washington to British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Rainier, 4392 m (14 408 ft)
  • casing hanger — A casing hanger is the part of a wellhead that supports the casing string.
  • centrifugence — the property of being centrifugal
  • chaise lounge — A chaise lounge is the same as a chaise longue.
  • challengeable — a call or summons to engage in any contest, as of skill, strength, etc.
  • changeability — liable to change or to be changed; variable.
  • changefulness — Propensity to change.
  • chargeability — that may or should be charged: chargeable duty.
  • cheddar gorge — a pass through the Mendip Hills renowned for its stalactitic caverns and rare limestone flora
  • cheeseburgers — Plural form of cheeseburger.
  • cheesemongers — Plural form of cheesemonger.
  • chicago ridge — a town in NE Illinois.
  • chickenburger — A hot sandwich made of a patty of chicken in a bun, often with other ingredients.
  • circuit judge — a judge presiding over a county court or crown court
  • circumambages — round-about methods
  • citizen genet — Edmond Charles Edouard [ed-mawn sharl ey-dwar] /ɛdˈmɔ̃ ʃarl eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), ("Citizen Genêt") 1763–1834, French minister to the U.S. in 1793.
  • clonogenicity — (uncountable) The ability of a cell to form clones.
  • club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
  • co-management — the practice of managing something jointly
  • cobelligerent — a country fighting in a war on the side of another country
  • 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.
  • coco language — (language)   (Cocol) A language for writing left-attributed LL1 grammars, used as the input language for the Coco LL1 parser generator, which produces Modula-2 table-driven parsers as output. Cocol-2 is a version for the Coco-2 generator. Cocol/R is an improvement over the original Cocol and Cocol-2.
  • coffin dodger — an old person
  • cogent prolog — (language)   A full Edinburgh standard Prolog with debugger, listener, DCG, many built-ins, text windows, support for modules, and support for both 16-bit and 32-bit protected mode. Contact: Dennis C. Merritt.
  • college radio — radio broadcasting from stations affiliated with a college or university, often at a frequency below 92 MHz FM.
  • college-bound — intending to go to college
  • coming of age — When something reaches an important stage of development and is accepted by a large number of people, you can refer to this as its coming of age.
  • common gender — in English, a noun that is the same whether it is referring to either gender, such as cat, people, spouse.
  • computer geek — (jargon)   (Or "turbo nerd", "turbo geek") One who eats (computer) bugs for a living. One who fulfils all the dreariest negative stereotypes about hackers: an asocial, malodourous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. The term cannot be used by outsiders without implied insult to all hackers; compare black-on-black usage of "nigger". A computer geek may be either a fundamentally clueless individual or a proto-hacker in larval stage. See also Alpha Geek, propeller head, clustergeeking, geek out, wannabee, terminal junkie, spod, weenie.
  • concertgebouw — a concert hall in Amsterdam, inaugurated in 1888: the Concertgebouw Orchestra established in 1888, has been independent of the hall since World War II
  • congeneration — Simultaneous generation (as of heat and light from the same action).
  • congenialness — The state or quality of being congenial.
  • constringence — inverse of the dispersive power of a medium
  • contents page — the page in a book that shows the table of contents
  • contingencies — dependence on chance or on the fulfillment of a condition; uncertainty; fortuitousness: Nothing was left to contingency.
  • contragestion — a form of contraception that can be used after fertilization of the ovum, preventing gestation
  • contragestive — able to prevent gestation
  • coolidge tube — a cathode ray tube, used for x-ray production, in which a beam of thermoelectrons is produced by heating a wire cathode.
  • coralligenous — producing coral
  • corn exchange — A corn exchange is a large building where, in former times, grain was bought and sold.
  • costardmonger — a costermonger
  • costermongers — Plural form of costermonger.
  • cottage fries — potatoes that have been thinly sliced and then fried
  • cottage grove — a town in E Minnesota.
  • cottage piano — a small upright piano
  • cottage tulip — a late-flowering type of tulip, usually having pointed or elongated flowers.
  • counter image — the point or set of points in the domain of a function corresponding to a given point or set of points in the range of the function.
  • counterchange — to change parts, qualities, etc
  • countercharge — a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser
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