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14-letter words containing a, g, i, t, e

  • bottle gentian — closed gentian.
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • breaking point — If something or someone has reached breaking point, they have so many problems or difficulties that they can no longer cope with them, and may soon collapse or be unable to continue.
  • breast-beating — public or ostentatious expression of guilt, remorse, or sorrow
  • breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
  • breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
  • bring onstream — To bring onstream a plant, mine, oilfield, etc. is to start production there.
  • bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
  • budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
  • bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
  • building trade — the economic sector comprising all companies and workers involved in construction
  • business agent — a representative of a labor union local, who investigates working conditions, negotiates contracts, etc.
  • cable trunking — Cable trunking is an enclosure usually with a rectangular cross section, and with one removable or hinged side, that is used to protect cables and provide space for other electrical equipment.
  • cairngormstone — (mineral, rare) A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, found especially in the mountains of w Cairngorm in Scotland.
  • campaign chest — money collected and set aside for use in a campaign, especially a political one; a campaign fund.
  • capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
  • carcinogenetic — Of or pertaining to carcinogenesis; forming cancer cells.
  • carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
  • carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
  • carriage trade — trade from the wealthy part of society
  • cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
  • cartridge belt — a belt with pockets for cartridge clips or loops for cartridges
  • cartridge case — a cylindrical, usually metal casing capable of being loaded with an explosive charge and often also a bullet
  • cartridge clip — a metallic container holding cartridges for an automatic firearm
  • categorisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of categorization.
  • categorization — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • celto-germanic — having the characteristics of both the Celtic and Germanic peoples.
  • central region — a former local government region in central Scotland, formed in 1975 from Clackmannanshire, most of Stirlingshire, and parts of Perthshire, West Lothian, Fife, and Kinross-shire; in 1996 it was replaced by the council areas of Stirling, Clackmannanshire, and Falkirk
  • centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
  • centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
  • characterising — Present participle of characterise.
  • characterizing — Present participle of characterize.
  • charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
  • charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
  • charter flight — a flight booked by a holiday company to transport their customers
  • chemical agent — an agent that produces chemical reactions
  • chloroargyrite — a greyish-yellow or colourless soft secondary mineral consisting of silver chloride in cubic crystalline form: a source of silver. Formula: AgCl
  • cigarette burn — a burn created by a cigarette
  • cigarette butt — A cigarette butt or a cigarette end is the part of a cigarette that you throw away when you have finished smoking it.
  • cigarette card — a small picture card, formerly given away with cigarettes, now collected as a hobby
  • cigarette case — a case of a suitable size and shape to hold cigarettes
  • cigarette girl — a woman who sells cigars and cigarettes, usually from a tray displaying various brands, to customers in a restaurant or nightclub.
  • cilician gates — a pass in S Turkey, over the Taurus Mountains
  • cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
  • cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • cloister garth — garth (def 1).
  • closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
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