14-letter words containing a, g, e, n, t
- approximeeting — the practice of a group of people making indefinite plans to meet and then altering those plans regularly via mobile phones according to changing circumstances
- arc-jet engine — a type of rocket engine using propellant gas heated by an electric arc.
- archgenethliac — the person most proficient at casting horoscopes
- argonne forest — a wooded region in NE France: battles, World War I, 1918; World War II, 1944.
- argumentations — Plural form of argumentation.
- argus pheasant — either of two pheasants, Argusianus argus (great argus) or Rheinardia ocellata (crested argus), occurring in SE Asia and Indonesia. The males have very long tails marked with eyelike spots
- arresting gear — any mechanism or device for bringing something to a stop, as an airplane landing on an aircraft carrier.
- asphalt jungle — an expression used to refer to a city environment, which emphasizes its dangerous nature
- asseveratingly — in an asseverating or affirming manner
- assistance dog — a dog that has been specially trained to live with and accompany a disabled person, carrying out such tasks as prompting them to take medication or assisting them to cross a road
- assisted dying — the suicide of a person afflicted by an incurable disease, using a lethal dose of drugs provided by a physician for this purpose
- at close range — If you see or hit something at close range or from close range, you are very close to it when you see it or hit it. If you do something at a range of half a mile, for example, you are half a mile away from it when you do it.
- at full length — stretched out; completely extended
- auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
- augean stables — the stables, not cleaned for 30 years, where King Augeas kept 3000 oxen. Hercules diverted the River Alpheus through them and cleaned them in a day
- auger-electron — a nonradiative process in which an atom in an excited state undergoes a transition to a lower state by the emission of a bound electron (Auger electron) rather than by the emission of an x-ray.
- augmentatively — In an augmentative fashion.
- authenticating — to establish as genuine.
- autoregression — (mathematics) An autoregressive process that is used to model many types of natural behaviour.
- autoregulation — the continual automatic adjustment or self-regulation of a biochemical, physiological, or ecological system to maintain a stable state.
- autosuggestion — a process of suggestion in which the person unconsciously supplies or consciously attempts to supply the means of influencing his own behaviour or beliefs
- aviation badge — wings.
- aviation-badge — Also called aviation badge. Military Informal. a badge bearing the image of a spread pair of bird's wings with a distinctive center design, awarded to an aircrewman on completion of certain requirements.
- baby-battering — the physical abuse of a baby or young child
- backscattering — the scattering of rays or particles at angles to the original direction of motion of greater than 90°
- badger baiting — an illegal sport in which dogs are encouraged to draw a badger out of its burrow and attack it
- balance weight — a weight used in machines to counterbalance a part, as of a crankshaft
- bargain hunter — A bargain hunter is someone who is looking for goods that are value for money, usually because they are on sale at a lower price than normal.
- basting thread — inexpensive, loosely twisted thread that can be easily pulled out when permanent stitching is in place
- batement light — a compartment of a window with tracery, the bottom of which is formed by the arched head of a compartment or compartments below.
- bathing beauty — an attractive girl in a swimming costume
- batting helmet — a rigid plastic cap with a sidepiece extending down over the ear, worn for protection while batting
- batwing sleeve — a sleeve of a garment with a deep armhole and a tight wrist
- bayonet charge — a charge by riflemen with fixed bayonets
- bead lightning — lightning in which the intensity appears to vary along the path and which thus resembles a string of beads.
- beard-stroking — deep thought
- beauty pageant — A beauty pageant is the same as a beauty contest.
- belaying cleat — a cleat used for belaying
- bengal catechu — catechu.
- beta geminorum — Pollux
- binding rafter — a timber for supporting rafters between their extremities, as a purlin.
- binding strake — a very strong, heavy strake of planking, especially one next to a sheer strake.
- biodegradation — to decay and become absorbed by the environment: toys that will biodegrade when they're discarded.
- bioregionalist — someone who believes in bioregionalism
- bleeding heart — If you describe someone as a bleeding heart, you are criticizing them for being sympathetic towards people who are poor and suffering, without doing anything practical to help.
- blind staggers — the staggers
- blotting paper — Blotting paper is thick soft paper that you use for soaking up and drying ink on a piece of paper.
- borrowing rate — the interest rate at which money may be borrowed, esp an official rate set by a central bank
- botanic garden — a place in which plants are grown, studied, and exhibited
- bottle gentian — closed gentian.