14-letter words containing a, g, p
- autocoprophagy — the consumption of one's own faeces
- autoradiograph — a photograph showing the distribution of a radioactive substance in a specimen. The photographic plate is exposed by radiation from the specimen
- autotypography — a process in which drawings are executed on gelatin before being impressed on a soft metal plate to allow for printing
- back-pedalling — a retreat from or a retraction of a previously held view
- backflap hinge — Building Trades. flap (def 20a).
- backstage pass — a document or badge that entitles the bearer to go backstage at an event, esp a pop concert
- bacteriophages — Plural form of bacteriophage.
- balance spring — hairspring.
- bandar lampung — a port in Indonesia, in S Sumatra on the Sunda Strait; formed by merging the cities of Tanjungkarang and Telukbetung, and sometimes still referred to as Tanjungkarang-Telukbetung. Pop: 742 749 (2000)
- bark chippings — small pieces of tree bark used chiefly for pathways in gardens or woodland
- barometrograph — barograph.
- bathygraphical — (of a maps) representing the contours of the seabed
- beauty pageant — A beauty pageant is the same as a beauty contest.
- beggar's opera — a ballad opera (1728) with text by John Gay and music arranged by John Pepusch.
- beveridge plan — the plan for comprehensive social insurance, proposed by Sir William Beveridge in Great Britain in 1941.
- bidding prayer — the formal petitionary prayer, said especially in the Anglican Church immediately before the sermon.
- binary package — (software) An archive file that contains all files and directories that must be installed in order to make a working installation of the program(s) included in the package, and the maintainer scripts necessary for the installation. A binary package is usually specific to a certain platform, in contrast to a source package.
- blind stamping — an impression on a book cover without using colour or gold leaf
- block sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical literary analysis by random selection of a starting point and consideration of the continuous passage following it
- blotting paper — Blotting paper is thick soft paper that you use for soaking up and drying ink on a piece of paper.
- boarding party — group of officers or sailors who board a ship
- bottling plant — a factory where drinks are bottled
- 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.
- bridge passage — bridge1 (def 7).
- briefing paper — a document providing relevant facts and information
- bubonic plague — Bubonic plague is a serious infectious disease spread by rats. It killed many people during the Middle Ages.
- 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 paper — any of various types of heavy-duty paper that usually consist of bitumen reinforced with fibre sandwiched between two sheets of kraft paper: used in damp-proofing or as insulation between the soil and a road surface
- bush telegraph — a means of communication between primitive peoples over large areas, as by drum beats
- cabbage looper — the larva of a noctuid moth, Trichoplusia ni, common throughout the U.S. and Canada, that feeds on a wide variety of vegetable crops, especially cabbage and lettuce.
- cadogan teapot — a lidless teapot that is made from or in imitation of an inverted Chinese wine pot and is filled through the bottom.
- calligraphical — calligraphic
- cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
- 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.
- campaign trail — the series of appearances that a politician makes at different locations as part of a political campaign, esp before an election
- campina grande — a city in NE Brazil, in E Paraíba state. Pop: 366 000 (2005 est)
- cape girardeau — a city in SE Missouri, on the Mississippi River.
- cape guardafui — a cape at the NE tip of Somalia, extending into the Indian Ocean
- cape trafalgar — a cape on the SW coast of Spain, south of Cádiz: scene of the decisive naval battle (1805) in which the French and Spanish fleets were defeated by the British under Nelson, who was mortally wounded
- capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
- caprimulgiform — Of or pertaining to the taxonomic order Caprimulgiformes.
- carbonyl group — the bivalent radical CO, occurring in acids, ketones, aldehydes, and their derivatives.
- carboxyl group — functional group in organic acids
- 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 piece — carriage (def 7).
- carrier pigeon — any homing pigeon, esp one used for carrying messages
- carrying place — portage (def 3).