13-letter words containing a, g, e, n, t
- blaenau gwent — a county borough of SE Wales, created in 1996 from NW Gwent. Administrative centre: Ebbw Vale. Pop: 68 900 (2003 est). Area: 109 sq km (42 sq miles)
- blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
- blastogenesis — the theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted only by germ plasm
- board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
- bohr magneton — a unit that is used to indicate the magnetic moment of the electron structure in an atom, equal to 9.27 × 10 −21 erg/gauss.
- booking agent — an agent who makes bookings, as reservations for travel or the theater or engagements for performers, for clients.
- bouquet garni — A bouquet garni is a bunch of herbs that are tied together and used in cooking to add flavour to the food.
- brazing metal — a nonferrous metal, as copper, zinc, or nickel, or an alloy, as hard solder, used for brazing together pieces of metal.
- breathe again — to feel relief
- brief against — If someone, especially a politician, briefs against another person, he or she tries to harm the other person's reputation by saying something unfavourable about them.
- bring to bear — to bring into operation or effect
- buck sergeant — a newly promoted sergeant
- bus mastering — bus master
- cabinetmaking — the manufacture of fine furniture and other woodwork.
- cage fighting — Cage fighting is a type of organized violent fighting that takes place in an enclosed space.
- calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
- camping stove — a portable stove powered by butane gas canisters, designed to be used for cooking while camping
- candlelighter — a person whose task it is to light candles
- cantilevering — Present participle of cantilever.
- canton ginger — preserved or crystallized ginger of fine quality.
- cariogenicity — conducive to the production or promotion of dental caries: the cariogenic factors in sweets.
- carnegie unit — a standardized unit of measurement for evaluating courses in secondary schools in terms of college entrance requirements, representing one year's study in any subject, that subject having been taught for a minimum of 120 classroom hours to qualify.
- carnot engine — an engine using a Carnot cycle of operations.
- carpet knight — a soldier who spends his life away from battle; idler
- carpetbagging — relating to carpetbaggers or to the practice of carpetbaggers
- cartridge pen — a pen having a removable ink reservoir that is replaced when empty
- casting wheel — a wheel having on its circumference molds for receiving molten metal.
- catheterizing — Present participle of catheterize.
- cave painting — a painting done by prehistoric people in caves
- central angle — an angle whose vertex is at the centre of a circle
- centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
- cerynean stag — a stag living in Arcadia, captured by Hercules as one of his labors.
- changeability — liable to change or to be changed; variable.
- changing tone — cambiata.
- changing-note — cambiata.
- cigarette end — the part of a cigarette that is held in the mouth and that remains unsmoked after it is finished
- cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
- clear-coating — an automotive painting technique in which a coating of clear lacquer or other synthetic liquid is applied over the base color to enhance the shine and durability of the paint.
- clearing bath — any solution for removing material from the surface of a photographic image, as silver halide, metallic silver, or a dye or stain.
- co-management — the practice of managing something jointly
- coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
- cognitive map — a mental map of one's environment
- cointegration — (mathematics) The condition of two non-stationary time series whose linear combination is stationary.
- commemorating — Present participle of commemorate.
- commiserating — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
- concatenating — Present participle of concatenate.
- concentrating — Present participle of concentrate.
- concert grand — a full-size grand piano, usually around 7 feet in length
- concertinaing — Present participle of concertina.
- confederating — Present participle of confederate.