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15-letter words containing a, e, g

  • channel-hopping — Channel-hopping means switching quickly between different television channels because you are looking for something interesting to watch.
  • channel-surfing — Channel-surfing is the same as channel-hopping.
  • charles babbage — Charles, 1792–1871, English mathematician: invented the precursor of the modern computer.
  • charles doughty — Charles Montagu [mon-tuh-gyoo] /ˈmɒn təˌgyu/ (Show IPA), 1843–1926, English traveler and writer.
  • check guarantee — A check guarantee is any method, usually via a plastic card, that guarantees that a payment made by check will be honored by the account holder’s bank.
  • chelating agent — a chemical compound that coordinates with a metal to form a chelate, often used to trap or remove heavy metal ions
  • chemical change — Chemistry. a usually irreversible chemical reaction involving the rearrangement of the atoms of one or more substances and a change in their chemical properties or composition, resulting in the formation of at least one new substance: The formation of rust on iron is a chemical change.
  • chewing tobacco — tobacco, in the form of a plug, usually flavored, for chewing rather than smoking.
  • chiang kai-shek — original name Chiang Chung-cheng, 1887–1975, Chinese general: president of China (1928–31; 1943–49) and of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (1950–75). As chairman of the Kuomintang, he allied with the Communists against the Japanese (1937–45), but in the Civil War that followed was forced to withdraw to Taiwan after his defeat by the Communists (1949)
  • chicago heights — a city in NE Illinois, S of Chicago.
  • chicken-and-egg — of or relating to a paradoxical situation, question, etc. involving two factors, each of which in turn causes or leads to the other
  • child battering — child abuse in the form of battering
  • child-battering — the physical abuse of a child by a parent or guardian, as by beating.
  • chinese cabbage — a Chinese plant, Brassica pekinensis, that is related to the cabbage and has crisp edible leaves growing in a loose cylindrical head
  • chinese gelatin — agar (def 1).
  • cholangiectasis — Dilation of the bile ducts.
  • cholinergically — in a cholinergic manner
  • chop and change — When people chop and change, they keep changing their minds about what to do or how to act.
  • choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
  • chromatographer — A person skilled in chromatography or who operates a chromatograph.
  • cigarette paper — a piece of thin paper rolled around tobacco to form a cigarette
  • cigarette smoke — the acrid smoke produced by cigarettes being smoked
  • cineangiography — the use of motion-picture recording to trace the passage of dye through blood vessels, for the diagnosis of heart and blood vessel disease
  • cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
  • cinematographer — A cinematographer is a person who decides what filming techniques should be used during the shooting of a film.
  • cinematographic — a motion-picture projector.
  • cinemicrography — the making of a film through the lens of a microscope
  • cineradiography — the filming of motion pictures through a fluoroscope or x-ray machine.
  • circumnavigable — Able to be circumnavigated.
  • circumnavigated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate.
  • circumnavigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumnavigate.
  • classical greek — the form of Greek used in classical literature, especially the literary Attic Greek of the 5th and 4th centuries b.c.
  • cleavage-planes — the act of cleaving or splitting.
  • cleistogamously — in a cleistogamous manner
  • cocktail lounge — A cocktail lounge is a room in a hotel, restaurant, or club where you can buy alcoholic drinks.
  • code management — source code management
  • coffee granules — instant coffee in the form of grains
  • cognitive radio — a radio that can automatically alter frequency, power, modulation, etc, according to where it is located
  • collecting bank — a bank that collects money from the account of the writer of a cheque on behalf of the person who has deposited the cheque into the bank
  • college of arms — any of several institutions in the United Kingdom having a royal charter to deal with matters of heraldry, grant armorial bearings, record and trace genealogies, etc
  • college station — a city in E central Texas.
  • colour sergeant — a sergeant who carries the regimental, battalion, or national colours, as in a colour guard
  • combat fatigues — the uniform worn by soldiers when fighting
  • come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
  • commercialising — Present participle of commercialise.
  • commercializing — Present participle of commercialize.
  • commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
  • committee stage — (in British parliamentary procedure) the detailed examination by MPs of proposed legislation
  • compleat angler — a book on fishing (1653) by Izaak Walton.
  • compound magnet — a magnet consisting of two or more separate magnets placed together with like poles pointing in the same direction.
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