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16-letter words containing g, r, i

  • centrifugal pump — a pump having a high-speed rotating impeller whose blades throw the water outwards
  • channel crossing — a crossing of the English Channel
  • character string — a series of characters that can be manipulated as a group, but do not necessarily represent anything
  • charged particle — an atomic particle with a positive or negative charge, as an electron, proton, or helium ion
  • charles coughlin — Charles Edward ("Father Coughlin") 1891–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic priest, activist, radio broadcaster, and editor, born in Canada.
  • chattering class — well-educated members of the upper-middle or upper class who freely express especially liberal opinions or judgments on current issues and events.
  • chipping sparrow — a common North American sparrow, Spizella passerina, having brown-and-grey plumage and a white eye stripe
  • chlorogenic acid — a colorless crystalline acid, C 16 H 18 O 9 , that is important in plant metabolism and is purportedly responsible for the browning or blackening of cut apples, potatoes, and other fruits and vegetables.
  • cholangiographic — Relating to cholangiography.
  • choriomeningitis — (medicine) A form of cerebral meningitis associated with inflammation of the choroid plexus.
  • christening robe — a long white dress worn by a baby at his or her christening
  • christmas lights — strings of lights put up in the Christmas period to decorate houses
  • chromatographies — Plural form of chromatography.
  • chromium plating — plating, often for decorative effect, made of chromium
  • chromolithograph — a picture produced by chromolithography
  • chronic glaucoma — Ophthalmology. abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye, most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains (open-angle glaucoma or chronic glaucoma) or by pressure of the iris against the lens, which traps the aqueous humor (angle-closure glaucoma or acute glaucoma)
  • church suffering — the souls in purgatory.
  • chymotrypsinogen — the inactive precursor of chymotrypsin
  • cigarette beetle — a small cylindrical beetle, Lasioderma serricorne, that is a pest, especially of dried tobacco.
  • cigarette holder — A cigarette holder is a narrow tube that you can put a cigarette into in order to hold it while you smoke it.
  • circuit training — Circuit training is a type of physical training in which you do a series of different exercises, each for a few minutes.
  • circular sailing — a method of navigation in which the curvature of the earth is taken into consideration.
  • circumambulating — Present participle of circumambulate.
  • circumnavigating — Present participle of circumnavigate.
  • circumnavigation — to sail or fly around; make the circuit of by navigation: to circumnavigate the earth.
  • circumnavigatory — Pertaining to circumnavigation.
  • citronella grass — a tropical Asian grass, Cymbopogon (or Andropogon) nardus, with bluish-green lemon-scented leaves
  • cleaning product — a detergent or other household cleaner
  • clearsightedness — The property of being clearsighted.
  • closing argument — In a court case, a lawyer's closing argument is their final speech, in which they give a summary of their case.
  • cogito, ergo sum — I think, therefore I am; the basis of Descartes' philosophy
  • coleridge-taylor — Samuel. 1875–1912, British composer, best known for his trilogy of oratorios Song of Hiawatha (1898–1900)
  • colorado springs — a city and resort in central Colorado. Pop: 370 448 (2003 est)
  • combination drug — a medication comprised of set dosages of two or more separate drugs.
  • come/bring alive — If a story or description comes alive, it becomes interesting, lively, or realistic. If someone or something brings it alive, they make it seem more interesting, lively, or realistic.
  • common logarithm — a logarithm to the base ten. Usually written log or log10
  • common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
  • community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
  • configurationism — Gestalt psychology
  • congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
  • congressionalist — of or relating to a congress.
  • considering that — You use considering that to indicate that you are thinking about a particular fact when making a judgment or giving an opinion.
  • consulting hours — the hours during which health practitioners are available for consultation
  • contact printing — the process of making contact prints.
  • container garden — a collection of pots or other receptacles containing soil for growing plants out of doors
  • contract killing — a murder carried out in fulfilment of a contract
  • contraindicating — Present participle of contraindicate.
  • copyright symbol — (character, legal)   "©" The internationally recognised symbol required to introduce a copyright notice, a letter C with a circle around it. This can be encoded in ISO 8859-1 as character code decimal 169, hexadecimal A9, in HTML as ©, © or ©. A "c" in parentheses: "(c)" is sometimes used in documents stored in a coded character set such as ASCII that does not include the C in a circle, but this has no legal meaning.
  • corona discharge — an electrical discharge appearing on and around the surface of a charged conductor, caused by ionization of the surrounding gas
  • correcting plate — a thin lens used to correct incoming light rays in special forms of reflecting telescopes.
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