14-letter words containing a, n, l, o, g
- backing vocals — a vocal accompaniment for a pop singer
- ballot rigging — Ballot rigging is the act of illegally changing the result of an election by producing a false record of the number of votes.
- barnacle goose — a N European goose, Branta leucopsis, that has a black-and-white head and body and grey wings
- barong tagalog — (in the Philippines) a man's long-sleeved formal overblouse, made of fine, sheer fabric, often embroidered.
- basal ganglion — any of several masses of gray matter in each cerebral hemisphere.
- bildungsromane — a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
- bill of lading — (in foreign trade) a document containing full particulars of goods shipped or for shipment
- bioregionalism — the conviction that environmental and social policies should be determined by the bioregion rather than economics or politics
- bioregionalist — someone who believes in bioregionalism
- block faulting — the process by which tensional forces in the earth's crust cause large bodies of rock to founder.
- 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
- blood and guts — dealing with or depicting war or violence, especially in a lurid manner: a blood-and-guts movie.
- blood-and-guts — dealing with or depicting war or violence, especially in a lurid manner: a blood-and-guts movie.
- blotting paper — Blotting paper is thick soft paper that you use for soaking up and drying ink on a piece of paper.
- bottle gentian — closed gentian.
- bottling plant — a factory where drinks are bottled
- 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.
- by a long shot — People sometimes use the expression by a long shot to emphasize the opinion they are giving.
- caloric energy — energy measured in calories
- canons regular — one of a body of dignitaries or prebendaries attached to a cathedral or a collegiate church; a member of the chapter of a cathedral or a collegiate church.
- carbonyl group — the bivalent radical CO, occurring in acids, ketones, aldehydes, and their derivatives.
- 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.
- charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
- 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
- clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
- 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
- color sergeant — a sergeant who has charge of battalion or regimental colors.
- common grackle — a large songbird, Quiscalus quiscula, of the family Icteridae, of central and eastern North America, having iridescent black plumage varying in color.
- 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.