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14-letter words containing c, o, g, e

  • biogeochemical — of or relating to biogeochemistry
  • bioprospecting — searching for plant or animal species for use as a source of commercially exploitable products, such as medicinal drugs
  • birdcage clock — lantern clock.
  • bodice-ripping — A bodice-ripping film or novel is one which is set in the past and which includes a lot of sex scenes. You use this word especially if you do not think it is very good and is just intended to entertain people.
  • booking office — A booking office is a room where tickets are sold and booked, especially in a theatre or station.
  • boring machine — a machine that bores holes, tunnels, etc
  • botanic garden — a place in which plants are grown, studied, and exhibited
  • bounce message — A notification message returned to the sender by a site unable to relay e-mail to the intended recipient or the next link in a bang path. Reasons might include a nonexistent or misspelled user name or a down relay site. Bounce messages can themselves fail, with occasionally ugly results; see sorcerer's apprentice mode and software laser. The terms "bounce mail" and "barfmail" are also common.
  • 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
  • breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
  • breeding stock — animals specifically kept to breed from
  • bubonic plague — Bubonic plague is a serious infectious disease spread by rats. It killed many people during the Middle Ages.
  • 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.
  • cadmium orange — a yellow color approaching orange.
  • cadogan teapot — a lidless teapot that is made from or in imitation of an inverted Chinese wine pot and is filled through the bottom.
  • cagayan de oro — city in E Mindanao, in the Philippines; pop. 340,000
  • cairngormstone — (mineral, rare) A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, found especially in the mountains of w Cairngorm in Scotland.
  • caloric energy — energy measured in calories
  • camouflageable — able to be camouflaged
  • 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.
  • carcinogenesis — the development of cancerous cells from normal ones
  • carcinogenetic — Of or pertaining to carcinogenesis; forming cancer cells.
  • card catalogue — a catalogue of books, papers, etc, filed on cards
  • 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 horse — a horse trained and groomed to draw carriages.
  • carriage house — coach house.
  • carrier pigeon — any homing pigeon, esp one used for carrying messages
  • cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
  • categorisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of categorization.
  • categorization — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • cathodographer — a person trained in taking cathodographs
  • 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
  • centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
  • champagne cork — a cork used in a champagne bottle
  • change of life — The change of life is the menopause.
  • change of pace — variation in tempo or mood, in the presentation of acts in a variety show, etc.
  • characterology — the academic study of character
  • charge account — a business arrangement by which a customer may buy goods or services and pay for them within a specified future period
  • charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
  • 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.
  • chondrogenesis — the growth of cartilage
  • chopping knife — a knife for chopping meat, vegetables etc
  • choreographers — Plural form of choreographer.
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