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14-letter words containing c, a, l, g, r

  • 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.
  • calgary redeye — a drink consisting of a mixture of beer and tomato juice.
  • call screening — a facility that plays an announcement and records messages, enabling the person called to decide whether or not to answer the call
  • calligraphical — calligraphic
  • 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.
  • 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 trail — the series of appearances that a politician makes at different locations as part of a political campaign, esp before an election
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • carcinological — relating to carcinology
  • card catalogue — a catalogue of books, papers, etc, filed on cards
  • carnival glass — a colorful iridescent pressed glassware popular in the U.S. in the early 20th century.
  • 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
  • carrier signal — (communications)   A continuous signal of a single frequency capable of being modulated by a second, data-carrying signal. In radio communication, the two common kinds of modulation are amplitude modulation and frequency modulation.
  • carrying place — portage (def 3).
  • cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
  • cartographical — Pertaining to cartography.
  • cartridge belt — a belt with pockets for cartridge clips or loops for cartridges
  • cartridge clip — a metallic container holding cartridges for an automatic firearm
  • cavalry charge — a charge by mounted troops
  • celery cabbage — Chinese cabbage.
  • 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
  • centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
  • characterology — the academic study of character
  • charge-a-plate — charge plate.
  • charles wrightCharles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
  • charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
  • charter flight — a flight booked by a holiday company to transport their customers
  • checkered flag — a flag having a pattern of black and white squares, used to signal that a car has crossed the finish line and completed its race.
  • chequered flag — the black-and-white checked flag traditionally shown to the winner and all finishers at the end of a motor race by a senior race official
  • chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
  • chloroargyrite — a greyish-yellow or colourless soft secondary mineral consisting of silver chloride in cubic crystalline form: a source of silver. Formula: AgCl
  • cholecystogram — the production of x-ray photographs of the gallbladder following administration of a radiopaque substance that is secreted by the liver into the gallbladder.
  • cigarette girl — a woman who sells cigars and cigarettes, usually from a tray displaying various brands, to customers in a restaurant or nightclub.
  • circular light — light that is circularly polarized.
  • circumgalactic — (astronomy) Surrounding a galaxy.
  • civil marriage — a marriage performed by some official other than a clergyman
  • clapper bridge — a primitive type of bridge in which planks or slabs of stone rest on piles of stones
  • clapperclawing — Present participle of clapperclaw.
  • class struggle — in Marxism, the constant economic and political struggle held to exist between social classes regarded as exploiting and those regarded as exploited; specif., in capitalist countries, the struggle between capitalists (bourgeoisie) and workers (proletariat)
  • 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.
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