12-letter words containing a, s, g, e
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
- charmingness — pleasing; delightful: a charming child.
- cheeseparing — penny-pinching; stingy
- cheval glass — full-length mirror that can swivel
- choreographs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of choreograph.
- cigar-shaped — resembling a cigar in shape
- cladogenesis — adaptive evolution leading to a greater variety of species
- clam diggers — casual pants that end slightly below the knee.
- clam-diggers — calf-length trousers
- claw setting — a jewellery setting with clawlike prongs
- clearsighted — seeing clearly
- cleistogamic — Alternative form of cleistogamous.
- cliffhangers — Plural form of cliffhanger.
- closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
- closing date — The closing date for a competition or offer is the final date by which entries or applications must be received.
- coarse grain — granularity
- coast ranges — series of mountain ranges along the W coast of North America, extending from Alas. to Baja California: highest peak, Mt. Logan
- code-sharing — a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows passengers to use a ticket from one airline to travel on another
- cogenerators — Plural form of cogenerator.
- cold storage — If something such as food is put in cold storage, it is kept in an artificially-cooled place in order to preserve it.
- collagenases — Plural form of collagenase.
- collegialism — the theory that the church's highest authority is its collective membership
- collegiates' — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
- compensating — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- congelations — Plural form of congelation.
- consanguined — Of kindred blood; related.
- consecrating — Present participle of consecrate.
- conservating — Present participle of conservate.
- console game — a video game requiring the use of a games console
- convalescing — to recover health and strength after illness; make progress toward recovery of health.
- conversating — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
- coral gables — a city in SE Florida, near Miami.
- core storage — a kind of computer memory consisting of storage units made of ferromagnetic rings
- cosmographer — (astrophysics) A scientist specializing in understanding and describing the nature of the universe.
- courageously — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
- crazy eights — a card game played by two or more persons with a 52-card deck, the object of which is to be the first to get rid of one's hand by successively playing a card of the same suit or denomination as that played by the preceding player, with an eight counting for any desired suit.
- cross-garnet — a hinge with a long horizontal strap fixed to the face of a door and a short vertical leaf fixed to the door frame
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- curate's egg — something that has both good and bad parts
- cyanogenesis — the release by certain plants, such as cherry laurel, of hydrogen cyanide, esp after wounding or invasion by pathogens
- cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- damaskeening — Present participle of damaskeen.
- dancing step — balanced step.
- dark glasses — Dark glasses are glasses which have dark-coloured lenses to protect your eyes in the sunshine.
- data segment — (memory) The range of memory locations where the initialised data of a program produced by a Unix linker is located. Executable code is located in the code segment and uninitialised data in the bss segment.
- daughterless — Without a daughter.
- dauntingness — to overcome with fear; intimidate: to daunt one's adversaries.
- de-designate — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- dead fingers — a disease of users of pneumatic drills, characterized by anaesthesia of the fingertips and cyanosis
- dead storage — the storage of furniture, files, or other unused or seldom used items in a warehouse or other location for an indefinite period of time.