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14-letter words containing a, g, n, l, i, o

  • bowling crease — a line marked at the wicket, over which a bowler must not advance fully before delivering the ball
  • brachydiagonal — the shorter lateral axis of a rhombic prism
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • brazing solder — an alloy of copper and zinc for joining two metal surfaces by melting the alloy so that it forms a thin layer between the surfaces
  • breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
  • bubonic plague — Bubonic plague is a serious infectious disease spread by rats. It killed many people during the Middle Ages.
  • caloric energy — energy measured in calories
  • carcinological — relating to carcinology
  • 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
  • cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
  • 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
  • change of life — The change of life is the menopause.
  • cleaning woman — A cleaning woman is the same as a cleaning lady.
  • clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
  • clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
  • clingmans dome — mountain on the Tenn.-N.C. border; highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains: 6,642 ft (2,024 m)
  • clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
  • closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
  • coaching glass — a small drinking glass of the early 19th century having no foot.
  • coelanaglyphic — (of pottery) decorated with sunken relief
  • colombian gold — a potent marijuana grown in South America.
  • colonial goose — an old-fashioned name for stuffed roast mutton
  • conciliatingly — So as to conciliate.
  • configuraholic — (jargon)   A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
  • conflagrations — Plural form of conflagration.
  • conglobulation — the act of conglobing
  • 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
  • conglutinating — Present participle of conglutinate.
  • conglutination — glued together; adhering.
  • congratulating — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
  • congratulation — the act of congratulating
  • congregational — of or relating to a congregation
  • contact flight — a flight in which the pilot remains in sight of land or water
  • contact flying — flying an airplane in conditions of good visibility so that the course and altitude can be determined by observing points or objects on the ground; VFR
  • cornucopia leg — a leg used on pieces in the Directoire and Empire styles, curving downward from the piece and curving upward again to a point and having a foot or caster at the lowest part of the curve.
  • cosmogonically — In a cosmogonic manner.
  • countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
  • criminological — the study of crime and criminals: a branch of sociology.
  • data modelling — data model
  • delegitimation — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
  • demoralizingly — in a demoralizing manner
  • diagnosability — the quality of being diagnosable
  • diagnostically — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • diagonal cloth — a twilled fabric woven with distinctly diagonal lines.
  • diagonalisable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalised
  • diagonalizable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalized
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