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14-letter words containing a, g, e, m

  • cadmium orange — a yellow color approaching orange.
  • cairngormstone — (mineral, rare) A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, found especially in the mountains of w Cairngorm in Scotland.
  • cambridge blue — a lightish blue colour
  • cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
  • cambridgeshire — a county of E England, in East Anglia: includes the former counties of the Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and lies largely in the Fens: Peterborough became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Cambridge. Pop (excluding Peterborough): 571 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Peterborough): 3068 sq km (184 sq miles)
  • camouflageable — able to be camouflaged
  • camp fire girl — a girl who is a member of Camp Fire, Inc., an organization for girls founded in 1910, and since 1975 also including boys, to promote character-building activities
  • campaign chest — money collected and set aside for use in a campaign, especially a political one; a campaign fund.
  • campaign medal — a medal awarded for performance of specified service, usually in time of war or national emergency.
  • campina grande — a city in NE Brazil, in E Paraíba state. Pop: 366 000 (2005 est)
  • carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
  • celto-germanic — having the characteristics of both the Celtic and Germanic peoples.
  • champagne cork — a cork used in a champagne bottle
  • change machine — a machine that provides smaller denomination coins or notes in exchange for larger ones
  • chemical agent — an agent that produces chemical reactions
  • cholecystogram — the production of x-ray photographs of the gallbladder following administration of a radiopaque substance that is secreted by the liver into the gallbladder.
  • cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
  • cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
  • cinemicrograph — a motion picture filmed through a microscope.
  • cinnamon sedge — an angler's name for a small caddis fly, Limnephilus lunatus, having pale hind wings, that frequents sluggish water
  • circumagitated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumagitate.
  • circumnavigate — If someone circumnavigates the world or an island, they sail all the way around it.
  • civil marriage — a marriage performed by some official other than a clergyman
  • cleaning woman — A cleaning woman is the same as a cleaning lady.
  • climate change — change occurring in the Earth's overall climate and in particular climates, now regarded as a result of human activity and resulting generally in global warming
  • climbing frame — A climbing frame is a structure that has been made for children to climb and play on. It consists of metal or wooden bars joined together.
  • clingmans dome — mountain on the Tenn.-N.C. border; highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains: 6,642 ft (2,024 m)
  • clouded magpie — a geometrid moth, Abraxas sylvata, that is paler than the magpie moth
  • combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
  • comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
  • commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
  • common grackle — a large songbird, Quiscalus quiscula, of the family Icteridae, of central and eastern North America, having iridescent black plumage varying in color.
  • common ragweed — a plant, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, of a chiefly North American genus: family Asteraceae (composites). Its green tassel-like flowers produce large amounts of pollen, which causes hay fever
  • complete graph — A graph which has a link between every pair of nodes. A complete bipartite graph can be partitioned into two subsets of nodes such that each node is joined to every node in the other subset.
  • conglomerateur — a person who forms or leads a business conglomerate
  • conglomerating — Present participle of conglomerate.
  • conglomeration — A conglomeration of things is a group of many different things, gathered together.
  • conglomerative — of, relating to, or resembling a conglomerate
  • cosmetological — the art or profession of applying cosmetics.
  • costume change — a change of costume by an actor
  • counter-gambit — a countermove
  • countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
  • counterprogram — to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete with one on another station.
  • credit manager — a person employed in a business firm to administer credit service to its customers, especially to evaluate the extension and amount of credit to be granted.
  • creme anglaise — a custardlike cream sauce, often flavored with vanilla, served with fresh fruit, rich chocolate desserts, etc.
  • crimean gothic — a form of the Gothic language that survived in the Crimea after the extinction of Gothic elsewhere in Europe, known only from a list of words and phrases recorded in the 16th century.
  • cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
  • damage control — Damage control is action that is taken to make the bad results of something as small as possible, when it is impossible to avoid bad results completely.
  • data modelling — data model
  • decisionmaking — Alternative form of decision making.
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