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14-letter words containing c, a, b, g

  • brachydiagonal — the shorter lateral axis of a rhombic prism
  • bracket fungus — any saprotroph or parasitic fungus of the basidiomycetous family Polyporaceae, growing as a shelflike mass (bracket) from tree trunks and producing spores in vertical tubes in the bracket
  • branch manager — a person who manages the local branch of a bank, shop, or other business
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • braunschweiger — a smoked liver sausage, named after the city of Braunschweig
  • breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
  • bronchorrhagia — hemorrhage from the bronchial tubes.
  • bubonic plague — Bubonic plague is a serious infectious disease spread by rats. It killed many people during the Middle Ages.
  • bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
  • budget account — an account with a department store, etc, enabling a customer to make monthly payments to cover his or her past and future purchases
  • 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."
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • cable's length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
  • 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)
  • camouflageable — able to be camouflaged
  • capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
  • carbon trading — Carbon trading is the practice of buying and selling the right to produce carbon dioxide emissions, so that people, countries or companies who use a lot of fuel and electricity can buy rights from those that do not use so much.
  • 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
  • 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
  • casino banking — an approach to banking which risks losing investors' money in the quest for maximizing profits
  • celery cabbage — Chinese cabbage.
  • changeableness — The condition of being changeable.
  • charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
  • chopping board — A chopping board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
  • 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.
  • ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
  • clapper bridge — a primitive type of bridge in which planks or slabs of stone rest on piles of stones
  • climbing frame — A climbing frame is a structure that has been made for children to climb and play on. It consists of metal or wooden bars joined together.
  • cognate object — a noun functioning as the object of a verb to which it is etymologically related, as in think a thought or sing a song
  • coinage bronze — an alloy of 95 percent copper, 4 percent tin, and 1 percent zinc.
  • colombian gold — a potent marijuana grown in South America.
  • combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
  • conglobulation — the act of conglobing
  • cotton batting — cotton wadding, as used in quilt making
  • counter-gambit — a countermove
  • cribbage board — a board, with pegs and holes, used for scoring at cribbage
  • cryobiological — of or relating to cryobiology
  • cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
  • cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
  • diplomatic bag — A diplomatic bag is a bag or container in which mail is sent to and from foreign embassies. Diplomatic bags are protected by law, so that they are not opened by anyone except the official or embassy they are addressed to.
  • discharge tube — gas tube.
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