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

  • birdcage clock — lantern clock.
  • blade-shearing — the shearing of sheep using hand shears
  • 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.
  • boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
  • boring machine — a machine that bores holes, tunnels, etc
  • 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
  • bowling crease — a line marked at the wicket, over which a bowler must not advance fully before delivering the ball
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • braunschweiger — a smoked liver sausage, named after the city of Braunschweig
  • 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
  • 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.
  • breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
  • brewer's grain — an exhausted malt occurring as a by-product of brewing and used as a feedstuff for cattle, pigs, and sheep
  • bridge passage — bridge1 (def 7).
  • briefing paper — a document providing relevant facts and information
  • 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
  • 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
  • building trade — the economic sector comprising all companies and workers involved in construction
  • buying manager — The buying manager of a store is a senior employee whose job is to manage the purchase and delivery of products and supplies, maintaining stock levels.
  • 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.
  • cadmium orange — a yellow color approaching orange.
  • cairngormstone — (mineral, rare) A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, found especially in the mountains of w Cairngorm in Scotland.
  • call screening — a facility that plays an announcement and records messages, enabling the person called to decide whether or not to answer the call
  • caloric energy — energy measured in calories
  • cambridge blue — a lightish blue colour
  • cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
  • cambridgeshire — a county of E England, in East Anglia: includes the former counties of the Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and lies largely in the Fens: Peterborough became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Cambridge. Pop (excluding Peterborough): 571 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Peterborough): 3068 sq km (184 sq miles)
  • 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
  • campina grande — a city in NE Brazil, in E Paraíba state. Pop: 366 000 (2005 est)
  • cancer-causing — having the ability to induce the growth of a malignant tumour
  • 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
  • carcinogenesis — the development of cancerous cells from normal ones
  • 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 clock — a portable clock, usually in a rectangular case with a handle on the top, of a type originally used by travellers
  • carriage drive — a private road for horse-drawn carriages, often connecting a house with a public road
  • carriage horse — a horse trained and groomed to draw carriages.
  • carriage house — coach house.
  • carriage piece — carriage (def 7).
  • carriage trade — trade from the wealthy part of society
  • carrier pigeon — any homing pigeon, esp one used for carrying messages
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